Also if you are buying a NEW car, Costco has arranged deals with people? Maybe not the best best price but no negotiating required?
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Dec 06, 2015 8:22:47 am PST #10461 of 30003
Anne W. - Dec 06, 2015 8:25:15 am PST #10462 of 30003
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
That's awesome, tommy! Although I will admit to a slight double take when I read your post.
WindSparrow - Dec 06, 2015 8:42:32 am PST #10463 of 30003
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Yay, tommy!
askye - Dec 06, 2015 8:44:56 am PST #10464 of 30003
Thrive to spite them
I love my Fit. Just throwing that out there. And when the car buying happened there were all kinds of options like gap insurance and maintenance plans. I kinda liked one of the plans but it was outside the budget. So I got gap coverage. Dad did most of the negotiations bit it was basically the monthly payment has to be x amount. And he kept saying that until IL it happened.
-t - Dec 06, 2015 9:01:04 am PST #10465 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Glad to hear it, tommyrot!
I have no advice, Tep. Outside my experience. But good luck!
I decided what I really wanted for breakfast was TJ's triple ginger oatmeal, which meant going grocery shopping before breakfast, which led to buying All the Food. Truly, that was a ridiculous amount of money for me to spend. But my spoils should feed me for a goodly while and the cashier lines started getting long while I was checking out, so that's something.
Should be cleaning now but I need to rest up from grocery shopping...
Laura - Dec 06, 2015 9:07:06 am PST #10466 of 30003
Our wings are not tired.
Yay for relationship news! Yay for car buying!
Ginger, holding you in my heart.
Work work work weekend. Lots of office stuff, plus moved a truck load of stuff from storage that needs to be sorted. And decorations. And oh so much to do.
Jesse - Dec 06, 2015 9:16:01 am PST #10467 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I should be working now, but meh. MEH!
Gudanov - Dec 06, 2015 9:38:27 am PST #10468 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping
We're ready to buy a car, and neither one of us is any good at negotiating. But I don't want to just cave and pay the list price because I'm a wimp.
I've found that searching the Internet (autotrader.com, cars.com, etc...) will give you a really good idea of what a reasonable price should be for a particular model of car given the mileage and year. I think sellers will list better prices in Internet ads than on the lot. I like to use Edmunds.com to also get an estimate of what the price should be. You shouldn't have a problem paying with a personal check at a dealership, but you'll probably need a cashier's check for a private sale. Figure out a price you think is fair given your research, open a little lower so you can move a little, make sure they are including all fees in the price they are giving you, and be ready to walk away. I don't really enjoy negotiating, but my experience is that it's just part of the process to get the best price you can.
My MIL has a Fit and has been really happy with it. They are really versatile little cars. If you are looking at used Hondas that aren't low mileage, see if you can get a receipt or something of when it had its timing belt last changed. If it's overdue for one, you have to get it done right away. If the timing belt goes in a Honda, it can ruin the engine. Depending on model and year the timing belt is typically every 60,000 miles or 90,000 miles.
Gudanov - Dec 06, 2015 9:38:40 am PST #10469 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping
Much, much ~ma for Ginger.
aurelia - Dec 06, 2015 9:48:45 am PST #10470 of 30003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Has anyone ever ordered from Omaha Steaks? I'm looking at gifts for my brother but I haven't had red meat since I was 18 so I'm a bit out of my element, here. And it seems like I have to get pretty far into the checkout process before I know if they let you pick a delivery date.