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The scummy car dealership by my old apartment had a salesdude who tried to hardsell me on a Toyota when I was walking by. I don't even have a Driver's License. No, I'm not gonna buy a car.
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Thanatosian posted:I don't understand how judges who do this poo poo get away with it. Jesus loving Christ. Same way they get away with most of the heinous poo poo they do, American exceptionalism.
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# ? Dec 30, 2017 11:30 |
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If you have a trade-in, don’t ever tell the dealership up front. If they have something you want, do the homework, know your credit, know what financing you can get....then ONLY at the last minute mention you might have a trade-in. If they know you have a trade-in early on, they will work it so they get your old car for nothing and never give you the lowest price they might if you repeatedly tell them you don’t have a trade-in. I made this mistake once and am still kicking myself for it.
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# ? Dec 30, 2017 21:18 |
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Just buy a car used car from a regular person, and pay in cash. Problem solved. Don't trade-in your old car, sell it via classifieds, you'll get more money that way. My theory is that car dealerships are professional liars, and while a private person can also lie about the mechanical state of the car, I think you will on average get more honest answers out of people, and thus a better and cheaper car. If you can't be without a car for a period of time, buy the new (used) car first, then immediately start trying to sell the old one (if you have one). It's what I've always done, and it's also naturally better for your economy, since you aren't taking up a loan. If you must buy some more expensive car, perhaps you can borrow from your parents at 0% or low interest (and pay them back of course). I myself have always been satisfied with what I could buy used, in cash over the past 12 years.
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# ? Dec 31, 2017 16:15 |
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I buy and refurb cars regularly as a hobby and Pilsner is right, only private sales. Maybe a creepy used car lot that used to be a gas station is cool if you're savvy. The big secret: If they won't let you drive the car off to get it checked by a real mechanic, then you don't want that loving car. This includes going to a normal dealership. Pro car lots aren't always an outright scam, but they're always overcharging you and you are never going to come out the hero who scammed the scammer. Ever. That's what fake rear end fees that you legally can not avoid are for. You wanna buy a car for it's actual cash value? Make friends with a mechanic. They know what's up.
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# ? Dec 31, 2017 16:26 |
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Pilsner posted:Just buy a car used car from a regular person, and pay in cash. Problem solved. You do realize that many people simply don't have $5,000 in cash laying around, right? Also, to your second point about getting cash for your car: yes, that's a great idea but a LOT of people NEED the car they have to get to work to pay for the car you're talking about them buying. Meaning, if I needed to sell my car for $2500 in order to have enough cash to buy the $5000 one, there's a whole lot of logistical issues there and saying "just buy a car" is not always helpful advice. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Dec 31, 2017 |
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You shouldn't have to go through the car lot's financial dept to buy a car. You can go to the bank and get a loan for the amount you're looking to spend. You 100% should not go to the lot and ask for financing. That's gonna get you an interest rate that would give Trump a nosebleed. If a bank loan isn't an option, you're probably looking at a cash car, because credit is a thing and not everyone can get it. I turn over cars and bikes so I have the cash to hand out. I have no idea how to buy a vehicle without cash or credit worthiness, but I assume it involves a shitton of riding the bus?
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# ? Dec 31, 2017 16:49 |
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Pilsner posted:It's what I've always done, and it's also naturally better for your economy, since you aren't taking up a loan. If you must buy some more expensive car, perhaps you can borrow from your parents at 0% or low interest (and pay them back of course). And I know you're saying it's just for a 'more expensive car', but people have to get their first car from somewhere. You're probably not going to avoid having at least one car loan during your life, unless you get your first job in a place where you don't need a car to get around, or unless mom/dad fund it for you. Or unless you were diligent about scraping together savings from college jobs, but there's an upper limit to that unless your parents were taking care of most of your expenses. And the days where you could get a $500-$1000 shitbox and have it roadworthy are long past(unless you find an insanely good deal somewhere). Although after that first car you can avoid a lot of hassle & financial drain by driving your cars until it's not worth it to keep fixing them, instead of switching every 3-4 years. A lot of people do that, and I have no idea why. I can't imagine going out of your way to have a car payment forever when you don't have to. BiggerBoat posted:You do realize that many people simply don't have $5,000 in cash laying around, right? Also, to your second point about getting cash for your car: yes, that's a great idea but a LOT of people NEED the car they have to get to work to pay for the car you're talking about them buying.
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# ? Dec 31, 2017 18:32 |
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I know someone who is constantly rolling their car loans into new cars. They drive an unreliable car that costs twice as much as mine in terms of monthly payments
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# ? Jan 1, 2018 00:28 |
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BiggerBoat posted:You do realize that many people simply don't have $5,000 in cash laying around, right? Also, to your second point about getting cash for your car: yes, that's a great idea but a LOT of people NEED the car they have to get to work to pay for the car you're talking about them buying. $2000 is not a lot of money in my opinion. If you can't save up $2k over the span of a few months, why borrow money to buy a new car at horrendous rates? The money will quickly be burnt in interest and fees. Buying brand new cars is just a frivolous waste of money in my opinion, but to each their own. I always advise people to buy a 5-10 year old car, instead of new. You pay out the nose in depreciation, even if you have the cash in hand.
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# ? Jan 1, 2018 01:13 |
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Pilsner posted:But does it have to be $5000? My last car, a 2004 VW Polo, cost the equivalent of $4500, but I live in the country with the most expensive cars in the entire world (Denmark). I can't imagine you can't find a decent daily driver from the mid-2000's in the USA for $2000 or less. Am I wrong? you live in a country with universal health care, it's a bit dumb to tell an american "oh just save the money up!", ok buddy ill schedule my broken leg for next fiscal year
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# ? Jan 1, 2018 01:35 |
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Pilsner posted:But does it have to be $5000? My last car, a 2004 VW Polo, cost the equivalent of $4500, but I live in the country with the most expensive cars in the entire world (Denmark). I can't imagine you can't find a decent daily driver from the mid-2000's in the USA for $2000 or less. Am I wrong? 57% of American households have less than $1000 in savings. 39% have el zilcho. Guess I'll link source
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# ? Jan 1, 2018 01:39 |
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Pilsner posted:But does it have to be $5000? My last car, a 2004 VW Polo, cost the equivalent of $4500, but I live in the country with the most expensive cars in the entire world (Denmark). Denmark has nothing on Singapore.
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# ? Jan 1, 2018 03:03 |
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Thanatosian posted:I don't understand how judges who do this poo poo get away with it. Jesus loving Christ. being poor is criminalized in the united states
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# ? Jan 1, 2018 04:14 |
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Pilsner posted:But does it have to be $5000? My last car, a 2004 VW Polo, cost the equivalent of $4500, but I live in the country with the most expensive cars in the entire world (Denmark). I can't imagine you can't find a decent daily driver from the mid-2000's in the USA for $2000 or less. Am I wrong? Yes, you are. A few years ago the government had a program that was billed as trying to get fuel inefficient cars off the road, but which really just hosed poor people to give a sloppy BJ to the auto industry. It was called 'cash for clunkers.' I forget the details, but basically you turned in your old car and bought a new one. THe dealer gave you a guaranteed buyback based on some details about the car but usually it was between $2000 and 4,000. The dealers then got the money from the feds and they were REQUIRED to scrap the car. Since dealerships were involved there was a LOT of shady poo poo, especially when you start getting into the sketchy used car lot type places. The upshot was that all those $500-2000 serviceable but loving junky clunkers that poor people used to drive got crushed because the gov't was frequently offering way more on the incentive than they were worth. This was basically a giant hand job to the car industry (it happened right after the '08 crash and played a big role in floating the industry until the economy bounced back) and coupled with an explosion in predatory sub-prime auto loans it put a lot of relatively poor people into new cars, for a while at least. Of course if you didn't have junker to turn in but needed a cheap car a few years latter, well, you're SOL. If you wanted a daily driver clunker in the US right now you're looking at somewhere in the neighborhood of $5k. I haven't shopped used cars in a while, but the last time I looked that was about where it was for something that wasn't just completely trashed and probably in need of serious repairs - and those were $2k. edit: I just did a quick search of a few used car listings near me, and the cheapest was $3k for a 2002 GMC Yukon with 314k miles on it. The next cheapest was $4k for a 2004 Acura with 230k miles on it. Used cars in the US are a cruel joke, doubly so if you aren't able to do the majority of the repairs that a high mileage car requires yourself.
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# ? Jan 1, 2018 05:56 |
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Pilsner posted:Am I wrong? Speaking for most Americans, yes you're wrong.
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# ? Jan 1, 2018 07:18 |
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Cyrano4747 posted:Yes, you are. A few years ago the government had a program that was billed as trying to get fuel inefficient cars off the road, but which really just hosed poor people to give a sloppy BJ to the auto industry. It was called 'cash for clunkers.' I forget the details, but basically you turned in your old car and bought a new one. THe dealer gave you a guaranteed buyback based on some details about the car but usually it was between $2000 and 4,000. The dealers then got the money from the feds and they were REQUIRED to scrap the car. Since dealerships were involved there was a LOT of shady poo poo, especially when you start getting into the sketchy used car lot type places. Jesus, you can quit beating that dead horse now, it’s loving pulverized. Cash for clunkers was almost ten years ago and it only paid out for vehicles that got 18mpg or less EPA combined city/highway mileage, meaning that about ten zillion lovely early Nineties Explorers and Grand Cherokees got squashed. Nothing of value was lost. None of the CFC vehicles would have kept running very much longer anyway, and the cars people want(Accords, Camries, Corollas, etc) were worth far more than CFC was paying at the time, plus they got too good of gas mileage. Used cars today are more expensive across the board because everything is pricier, plus the average car will run 150-175,000 miles instead of 100,000 miles, so high-mileage vehicles are more valuable than they used to be. But you can still find ugly-looking shitpiles that run OK for a couple grand, Craigslist is full of them.
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JnnyThndrs posted:Used cars today are more expensive across the board because everything is pricier, plus the average car will run 150-175,000 miles instead of 100,000 miles, so high-mileage vehicles are more valuable than they used to be. But you can still find ugly-looking shitpiles that run OK for a couple grand, Craigslist is full of them. Or just check out the used car lots near a military base, or in any low-income neighborhood.
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# ? Jan 1, 2018 20:21 |
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We paid $3,000 for our 2000 Honda Civic hatchy in 2009, and it's still our daily driver (including an 11,000 mile drive around the US in August 2016). We do have an amazing mechanic, though. Bought it from a Subaru dealer that had taken it as a trade-in on a new Outback.
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# ? Jan 1, 2018 21:10 |
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maskenfreiheit posted:you live in a country with universal health care, it's a bit dumb to tell an american "oh just save the money up!", ok buddy ill schedule my broken leg for next fiscal year Mustached Demon posted:57% of American households have less than $1000 in savings. 39% have el zilcho.
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# ? Jan 1, 2018 21:27 |
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Pilsner posted:If you can't save up like $400 a month for 12 months (to buy a perfectly drivable $5k car), what business do you even have owning a car? Insurance, fuel, repairs, tires, taxes, and so on. This is basic economics. Owning a new car is not a human right. You could just as well argue that buying a new car that costs you, for example, $500 per month in payments, will shatter the savings you need for future medical emergencies. Did you miss the part where we're talking about the US, a country where in most places not owning a car makes you nigh unemployable?
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# ? Jan 1, 2018 21:29 |
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Pilsner posted:If you can't save up like $400 a month for 12 months (to buy a perfectly drivable $5k car), what business do you even have owning a car? Insurance, fuel, repairs, tires, taxes, and so on. This is basic economics. Owning a new car is not a human right. You could just as well argue that buying a new car that costs you, for example, $500 per month in payments, will shatter the savings you need for future medical emergencies. Mitt Romney, is that you?
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# ? Jan 1, 2018 22:11 |
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I was on a quest to buy a used truck for like two years . It is insane what people want for an old clapped out toyota, poo poo like "01 tacoma, 158k miles, no transmission, raccoon living in cab, $15,000 obo, racoon is friendly!" seems to be most of CL at this point. Or I would call about an add and ask "Are the cab and bed mounts rusted?", like half the time the owner admits they are and we are done, but the other half of the time they lie to me so I spend a morning driving out, immediately crawling under the truck, scraping a fat scab of rust off the mounts, call the owner a jackass, and driving home. I finally got lucky and found a coworker who was selling his beater, it's a crap truck but at least it cost next to nothing. At this point I would rather get a loan and pay interest then deal with CL anymore.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 00:18 |
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Old Toyota trucks are goddamn completely insane when it comes to cost - they’re perfectly fine vehicles, but in no way justify the prices people ask/pay for them. Rangers are every bit as tough and reliable as Toyotas, and they’re literally half the cost.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 00:26 |
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Tell me about common cars/vans
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JnnyThndrs posted:Old Toyota trucks are goddamn completely insane when it comes to cost - they’re perfectly fine vehicles, but in no way justify the prices people ask/pay for them. Rangers are every bit as tough and reliable as Toyotas, and they’re literally half the cost. I have had two rangers die premature deaths, so I am not gonna risk a third. Like any over 150k truck, esp a 4wd, is going to be a roll of the dice, but I sunk so much loving money into my last ranger I cannot stand to look at another one. Emotional investment in a beater truck is the scam you pull on yourself.
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Pilsner posted:If you can't save up like $400 a month for 12 months (to buy a perfectly drivable $5k car), what business do you even have owning a car? Well first you said this. Pilsner posted:
So $2000/3 months is more like $667 a month. Which is not a small amount of money for many people. Also your missing the part where they have to save that money while paying for all the things you listed (insurance etc) at the same time. It may not be a right but it drat sure is a necessity for many people and this backs them in to a corner. By the way you sound like an rear end in a top hat when you tell people to just make more money and they won't have a problem.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 00:37 |
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Pilsner posted:If you can't save up like $400 a month for 12 months (to buy a perfectly drivable $5k car), what business do you even have owning a car? Insurance, fuel, repairs, tires, taxes, and so on. This is basic economics. Owning a new car is not a human right. You could just as well argue that buying a new car that costs you, for example, $500 per month in payments, will shatter the savings you need for future medical emergencies. You're a loving moron.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 01:30 |
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I got zero percent financing on my car, so yay Subaru.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 01:45 |
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RocktheCaulk posted:I got zero percent financing on my car, so yay Subaru. Same for my Rav4.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 01:48 |
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Buying cars: total con/scam.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 01:58 |
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There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, vehicular or otherwise.
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Back to the real con/scam behind all of this: subprime auto loans What are they? quote:“Essentially, the dealers are not selling cars. They are selling bad loans,” said Adam Taub, a lawyer in Detroit who has defended consumers in hundreds of these cases. Why do they do it? quote:Subprime lenders are willing to take a chance on these risky borrowers because when they default, the lenders can repossess their cars and persuade judges in 46 states to give them the power to seize borrowers’ paychecks to cover the balance of the car loan. How?!?! quote:Most borrowers can’t afford lawyers and don’t show up to court to challenge the lawsuits. That means the collectors win many cases, transforming the debts into judgments they can use to garnish wages. How often does that happen? quote:Almost 9.7 percent of subprime car loans made by non-bank lenders -- including private-equity-backed firms catering to car dealers -- became 90 or more days past due in the third quarter, the highest annualized rate in more than seven years, according to the New York Fed’s quarterly report on household debt and credit. That’s more than double the 4.4 percent rate for subprime loans made by traditional banks, a number that’s been falling pretty steadily since the end of the financial crisis. So twice as many people don't pay them as banks, but they make HOW MUCH MORE?!?! quote:The strategy at Credit Acceptance, which has a market value of $4.4 billion, is yielding big profits. The Michigan company said its return on equity, a measure of profitability, was 31 percent last year — more than four times Bank of America’s return. So their business strategy is to blood people dry? Yes. quote:And collecting on the debt is a critical part of the business. The first item on the quarterly earnings of Credit Acceptance, the large subprime auto lender, is not the amount of loans it makes, but what it expects to collect on the debt. Repo is a big part of that. quote:Repossessions can shatter credit. Like a bankruptcy, repossessions stay on a consumer’s credit report for seven years. So, on to the horror stories: quote:The company, for example, expects a 72 percent collection rate on loans made in 2014 — the year that a used 2009 Volkswagen Tiguan was repossessed from Nina Lysloff of Ypsilanti, Mich. quote:U.S. Bank is pursuing Tara Pearson for the $9,339 left after her 2011 Hyundai Accent was stolen and she could not pay the fee to get it from the impound lot. When she purchased the car in 2015 at a dealership in Winchester, Ky., Ms. Pearson said, she explained that her only income was about $722 from Social Security. quote:The numbers kept getting worse for Jeremy McPeek. It started with paying $2,600 down and getting saddled with a high-interest loan on a car worth $5,200. Then came the repairs. Just two weeks in, the engine started knocking and the dealer told him it was shot — so McPeek told the dealer to just collect the car. quote:At the time, her credit score was about 560 because her identity was stolen when she was 19, Garcia said. She figured that even with a 23 percent interest rate, the biweekly payments would help her build credit. A bit about the systematic problems behind subprime auto loans, and how the business model is directed to stretch out the loans with more interest and fees, rather than aiming to simply collect the principal and interest. quote:Santander Consumer USA, which provides about one in five auto loans nationwide, is fiercely pursuing delinquent borrowers who have gotten mired in debt for financial products they cannot afford and should probably have never been sold in the first place. Aggressive debt collectors could be one factor in the tens of thousands of car repossessions that borrowers have endured, which might in turn lead to an even deeper financial crisis by depriving borrowers of perhaps their household’s only valuable asset. [Santander] has come under fire for unethical sales tactics amid the new subprime feeding frenzy. Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/18/business/dealbook/car-loan-subprime.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-14/subprime-auto-delinquency-near-crisis-levels-at-non-bank-lenders http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2017/special-report/subprime-auto-loan-tampa-bay-used-car-dealers/ https://www.thenation.com/article/the-latest-predatory-banking-practice-you-havent-heard-about-auto-loans/
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Well all of that sounds terrible except for the lady getting $7500 from a 3rd party for a car supposedly only worth around $5000.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 08:31 |
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John Oliver did a video on this same topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U2eDJnwz_s
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 10:28 |
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So... anyone know any sub prime auto loan companies looking for more equity?
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 13:32 |
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Car sales people get so angry when you try to "shop" them, aka trying to get a good deal and do some research and compare offers. Like, yelling at you angry.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 15:44 |
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Yeah but gently caress poor people, they deserve it
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 16:21 |
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NPR’s Planet Money had an episode a while ago about someone who had tried to start a company that sold cars with real non-barganing price tags, like any other store. He was met with massive pushback and lawsuits from the auto sales industry until he gave up. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/03/14/290241292/episode-435-why-buying-a-car-is-so-awful
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Blue Footed Booby posted:You're a loving moron.
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