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quote:Originally posted by Hooligan
By the sounds of the info that ThatFatBaby posted about her experience, maybe this happened to her!!! 
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Well I was going to post about how true all that is since we just went through that but very fortunately we're not Dave. In fact I haven't discussed the wonderful (cough cough) day at the dealership. Thank goodness my dh is very educated in the car department (buying and selling). We've always known what we can afford out the door and secure our own financing through our credit union. Never have discussed monthly payments w/ the salesman. We knew what the holdback was on it, we used the CSI to our full advantage, even threw a $100 off coupon hehe at them after it was a done deal. THAT was hilarious! Stuttering "but we already did the numbers!" @@ We even got the spiel about how it costs to operate the dealership, got the green pen markings for the wheeling and dealing, we knew the kelly blue book AND NADA value of our trade, knew what the other dealers were offering for incentives and what their sticker prices were ($1000 more actually). When we haggled and got as low as we thought they'd go or just about go...we went to another dealer gave them all the info and they couldn't come within $3000. We gave them the price we gotten the other dealer down to and they couldn't beat it. Like I said couldn't touch it within $3000. Went back haggled them down even further and that was all she wrote.
I just looked up the kbb on it and the retail is 22,540. We paid $19,500.
Btw anyone want some 04' heated seats? Don't think I'll get much use out of them after this year!