Warning Car Buyers:
Don’t Be The Next Car Rort Victim And Lose Thousands of Dollars When Buying Your Next Car! Discover The Little-Known Yet Highly Valuable Car Buying Secrets That Quickly And Easil
June 28, 2007 (Press Release) --
It’s all here in ONE book: Tips on buying a car Privately or from a dealer, buying a used car and even buying a car for the first time. There are over 80 websites, 40 DO’S and DON’T’S plus finance and insurance tips to help you become an expert on buying your next car.
My favourite is chapter 6 which you can print out and take with you the next time you buy a car. This checklist allows you to give the car a complete overhaul and tick off as you go all the things you need to find out inside and out, so you know EXACTLY what you are buying PLUS it helps to bring down the price as you expose any hidden nasties.
I’ve even included a car vocabulary so you can sound like a pro when you talk to a salesperson. There is also chapters on advertising and how to avoid buying a lemon and MUCH, MUCH more. So do yourself a favour and go to:
www.tipsoncars.com
Read my TRUE life story below.
It was a hot summers Tuesday and I can still remember the deal that had “Blood on the table” when it was time to sell my Saab 900 as it had been a good car but the engine was on it’s way out.
The day before was a public holiday and I had seen the car I wanted. I sat in it, went right around it and yes I even kicked the tires. (Doesn’t everyone do that when they buy a car?) It was a turquoise Mazda 323 Astina nominated by Wheels magazine as “Car of the year” in 1996.
It was early 2000 and the car sales yard was buzzing with people as the long weekend attracted so many buyers and deals were being made left right and center. I walked up to the tall salesman with a moustache and caught his attention as he was dealing with some other prospective buyers.
I pointed to my burgundy Saab outside the gates and said: How much would you give me for that? He took a quick look as he was rubbing his hands together for a deal about to take place with another couple and said: $2500.
Now the paintwork looked great, but I knew the car was on it’s last legs and the most valuable item was the security system. He thought he was fleecing me, but I said great, what’s your name?
So I then proceeded to go to another salesman and I said: I’d like to buy your Astina. Knowing the price I still said: How much is it? It was $17,000 and I haggled down to $16,000. I then Said: Greg out there just said he’d give me $2500 for my Saab. So we started to get the paper work going.
Well half way through the deal Greg came inside and said: Your Saabs not worth what I said it is. Too late I cheerfully stated, Amon here has already given me that as a trade in.
Amon was trying to sell me this and that, extras I did not need and all the time I said: NO, NO, NO. I even rammed him down on his commission. I was intent on getting the deal of a lifetime and this was going to be good. I had arranged with the bank (as my wife was working at the bank at the time) to get the cash as this helped to lower the deal. Cash certainly has a way with words!
The best bit was the final haggling, you see Amon had said the wrong price which he wrote on a business card for me. So by this time it was 6pm and all but one couple were left in the yard. You guessed right, it was my wife and I. We were sitting at the desk with Amon and we were arguing over the fact that he had given me a price and was now trying to change it. You see his commission was now down to $35.00 and we were at a stalemate.
Imagine the scene: Most of the sales staff had gone home and the secretary was asking if she could leave. We are sitting on one side of the salesman’s desk saying nothing and he was on the other side doing the same thing! HOW AWKWARD you might think. Next the manager comes out and says: “Guys lets wrap this deal up so we can all go home.”
I explained to the manager the predicament we were in. There was not a thing he could do as the proof of price was written on a card in my hand. So get this, He then rang the general manager and said: “I have this couple here who are in a stalemate what more can I do than offer them a cup of tea and a boiled lolly?”
This is what I mean when I said: There was blood on the table! No one was willing to budge. It was now dark and the only way we could go home to seal this deal was if I let Amon have a commission of $50.00. It was also the greatest battle of mental wits that I had available at the time.
Guess who drove away in his shiny near new Mazda Astina with the deal of a life time? I paid $12,550 a saving of $4,450 Thank you very much! My wife still drives that car to this day. We love it.
Please visit www.tipsoncars.com ###
It’s all here in ONE book: Tips on buying a car Privately or from a dealer, buying a used car and even buying a car for the first time. There are over 80 websites, 40 DO’S and DON’T’S plus finance and insurance tips to help you become an expert on buying your next car.
My favourite is chapter 6 which you can print out and take with you the next time you buy a car. This checklist allows you to give the car a complete overhaul and tick off as you go all the things you need to find out inside and out, so you know EXACTLY what you are buying PLUS it helps to bring down the price as you expose any hidden nasties.
I’ve even included a car vocabulary so you can sound like a pro when you talk to a salesperson. There is also chapters on advertising and how to avoid buying a lemon and MUCH, MUCH more. So do yourself a favour and go to:
www.tipsoncars.com
Read my TRUE life story below.
It was a hot summers Tuesday and I can still remember the deal that had “Blood on the table” when it was time to sell my Saab 900 as it had been a good car but the engine was on it’s way out.
The day before was a public holiday and I had seen the car I wanted. I sat in it, went right around it and yes I even kicked the tires. (Doesn’t everyone do that when they buy a car?) It was a turquoise Mazda 323 Astina nominated by Wheels magazine as “Car of the year” in 1996.
It was early 2000 and the car sales yard was buzzing with people as the long weekend attracted so many buyers and deals were being made left right and center. I walked up to the tall salesman with a moustache and caught his attention as he was dealing with some other prospective buyers.
I pointed to my burgundy Saab outside the gates and said: How much would you give me for that? He took a quick look as he was rubbing his hands together for a deal about to take place with another couple and said: $2500.
Now the paintwork looked great, but I knew the car was on it’s last legs and the most valuable item was the security system. He thought he was fleecing me, but I said great, what’s your name?
So I then proceeded to go to another salesman and I said: I’d like to buy your Astina. Knowing the price I still said: How much is it? It was $17,000 and I haggled down to $16,000. I then Said: Greg out there just said he’d give me $2500 for my Saab. So we started to get the paper work going.
Well half way through the deal Greg came inside and said: Your Saabs not worth what I said it is. Too late I cheerfully stated, Amon here has already given me that as a trade in.
Amon was trying to sell me this and that, extras I did not need and all the time I said: NO, NO, NO. I even rammed him down on his commission. I was intent on getting the deal of a lifetime and this was going to be good. I had arranged with the bank (as my wife was working at the bank at the time) to get the cash as this helped to lower the deal. Cash certainly has a way with words!
The best bit was the final haggling, you see Amon had said the wrong price which he wrote on a business card for me. So by this time it was 6pm and all but one couple were left in the yard. You guessed right, it was my wife and I. We were sitting at the desk with Amon and we were arguing over the fact that he had given me a price and was now trying to change it. You see his commission was now down to $35.00 and we were at a stalemate.
Imagine the scene: Most of the sales staff had gone home and the secretary was asking if she could leave. We are sitting on one side of the salesman’s desk saying nothing and he was on the other side doing the same thing! HOW AWKWARD you might think. Next the manager comes out and says: “Guys lets wrap this deal up so we can all go home.”
I explained to the manager the predicament we were in. There was not a thing he could do as the proof of price was written on a card in my hand. So get this, He then rang the general manager and said: “I have this couple here who are in a stalemate what more can I do than offer them a cup of tea and a boiled lolly?”
This is what I mean when I said: There was blood on the table! No one was willing to budge. It was now dark and the only way we could go home to seal this deal was if I let Amon have a commission of $50.00. It was also the greatest battle of mental wits that I had available at the time.
Guess who drove away in his shiny near new Mazda Astina with the deal of a life time? I paid $12,550 a saving of $4,450 Thank you very much! My wife still drives that car to this day. We love it.
Please visit www.tipsoncars.com ###
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