I agree. The used car prices in Edmunds and other sites are ridiculously
high whether buying, selling or trading.


"Pszemol" <Pszemol@PolBox.com> wrote in message
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> "Art" <begunaNOSPAMPLEASE@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>> Usually they just give you a good price. Probably close to their best
>> price. In one case when I did not respond for several days they sent me
>> another email with a slightly lower price a few days later. That was the
>> best I could do on the car.
>
> A lot of people believe the used car price advertised in the internet
> is close to the lowest dealer can do. False! I was able to lower
> advertised 18000 to 16700 with not much work at the dealership...
> I did NOT even have to do the old trick of walking away from
> the deal a couple of times... :-) I have a feeling I could
> haggle for probably $300-500 more if I had more time to shop
> for a car. Unfortunatelly, the car I wanted to replace was sent
> to the junkyard so I was forced to shop for a replacement using
> a rental car. This costing me significant money per day to gave
> enough incentive to not haggle too much or to not walk away
> from the deal and risk being not asked to walk back in :-)
>
> Again, I know this thread is about buying a new car, but my
> coment was about internet - never assume the price you have got
> over the e-mail, phone or internet will be be the last one.
> If you show in person, with your checkbook, you have much
> more negotiating power than over the e-mail...