GM & Ford should use their profits to buy back shares. If wall street is devaluing their share value it is cheaper to buy it back.

It’s sad but that’s what happens when the boring Toyota and Honda cars are what people are buying and in order to compete, GM begins designing their vehicles to look the same. I mean it’s working for them in the sales department obviously, but dang they are some butt ugly cars.

Neutral: If GM can still make good profits amidst the plateauing car market then maybe that can convince Wall Street.

They are actually making a powerful argument against the NCAA: “Look, stick to the sports end of things, stop pretending you care about the academics.” They are pushing the NCAA into an awkward position because the NCAA must pretend that they care deeply about these kids getting a degree, which then can be challenged…

Right? That seems crazy. The correct response for a non-athletic employee is to just laugh the NCAA out of your office.

UNC alumnus here. I’m not proud of this, but I feel the need to point this out to people who didn’t experience it first hand. There were some legitimate people out there that majored in AFAM and were passionate about it. They worked hard just like the rest of us, but there were a few intro courses in that department…

They hired former Blackberry AND Saab employees!!!

Plexus, Advo, ItWorks, etc.

The best outcome of a negotiation is when both parties are content with the outcome. I want the dealership to make some money just as much as I want a good deal. Too many people expect to rob the dealership when they come in and view the negotiation as the opportunity to be hard-nosed and take without giving some. …

It isn’t that simple, some states reduce the taxable value of the new vehicle 1:1 with the trade in value. If a dealer is willing to give you $10,000 for a trade you’d want your craigslist buyer to give you AT LEAST $625 more than that. So yeah, if some guy on Craigslist hands me $12,000 in cash for a vehicle the…

I KNOW!!!!

If they can’t get to the magic number with both prices being separately negotiated, then they won’t be able to get there when the two are negotiated together. Separating the two gives you an opportunity to get a better deal than you previously thought was possible; without doing it, the possible outcomes are limited.

The guy with 12 beat the guy with 20? That’s not how you play poker.

Check your privilege and stop being abusive!

Ugh, there’re no limits on how irritating these guys can get.

“Zero” points are arbitrary and meaningless and there is no need to use them unless it improves the clarity of the graph. For instance, in your example, since the graph is only made to look at the increase in CO2 over a specific time span, referencing zero would be pointless.

For Evil Week, this is how you lie with style.

You don’t throw it in afterwards. You just keep both negotiations separate. When I go into a dealer to buy a new car, I know what I can reasonably get for it if I sell it myself, or if I trade it in. Give me a decent deal on the car I’m buying, and I won’t demand full trade in value for the trade in. This didn’t…

Better deal? Probably. But most people don’t do that, whether it be due to not knowing how to, or not wanting to go through the headache (or not being able to get a rental car for several days).

Am I the only one who solely focuses on OTD pricing?