So I bought a car...
Jun. 28th, 2008 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwendolyngraceBut I'm not sure if I did as well as I thought I did when I walked out of the dealership.
My major mistake was in allowing them to factor the trade-in price as if it were an allowance instead of a fixed and separate price, essentially.
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etakyma says I did fine and should stop worrying.
It's a silver 2004 Subaru Impreza, 26,500ish miles, AWD/Auto transmission. They were asking $12,890 and I got them do make the deal so that the total cost, inclusive of taxes, fees, and my trade-in, was $12,174.
What I *should* have done was got them so that the total cost *of the car*, inclusive of (taxes and) fees, was $12,200, so that the *trade-in* came off of that total (making the cost to *me* $11,200), instead of being included in the total instead of in the overall cost.
A argues that I would never have got to that total.
Nonetheless I feel like I got fleeced a bit. ETA: It's a difference of about $450...in their pockets. Yup. I lost out a bit on that deal. Sigh.
Reassure me? Or tell me that I'm right and I should have pushed harder.
Oh - and name suggestions? Has to be someone who is Reliable, Long-Lived, and Selflessly Sacrificial. Remember that my current car's name is (Eric) Ashley-Pitt, Ashley for short, based on David McCallum's character in The Great Escape.
On another note - FA's servers are down, affecting the Park, and need a part that they won't be able to put in until tomorrow.
My major mistake was in allowing them to factor the trade-in price as if it were an allowance instead of a fixed and separate price, essentially.
Though
etakyma says I did fine and should stop worrying.It's a silver 2004 Subaru Impreza, 26,500ish miles, AWD/Auto transmission. They were asking $12,890 and I got them do make the deal so that the total cost, inclusive of taxes, fees, and my trade-in, was $12,174.
What I *should* have done was got them so that the total cost *of the car*, inclusive of (taxes and) fees, was $12,200, so that the *trade-in* came off of that total (making the cost to *me* $11,200), instead of being included in the total instead of in the overall cost.
A argues that I would never have got to that total.
Nonetheless I feel like I got fleeced a bit. ETA: It's a difference of about $450...in their pockets. Yup. I lost out a bit on that deal. Sigh.
Reassure me? Or tell me that I'm right and I should have pushed harder.
Oh - and name suggestions? Has to be someone who is Reliable, Long-Lived, and Selflessly Sacrificial. Remember that my current car's name is (Eric) Ashley-Pitt, Ashley for short, based on David McCallum's character in The Great Escape.
On another note - FA's servers are down, affecting the Park, and need a part that they won't be able to put in until tomorrow.
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Date: 2008-06-29 02:08 am (UTC)The guide that I've used for my last 3 buys says to negotiate the other way around - trade-in first and then car, but yes, the point is to negotiate each one as a separate transaction - the car prices do not mix.
My car isn't worth anything, really, and I knew from the last time I negotiated that $1,000 was fair. My car's only worth $890 on KBB--if that, given that the transmission is seriously about to drop.