I recently had a similar experience with car people lying! My girlfriend and I went to a dealership to trade in her car and get her a newer, smaller one. We currently live in a state where hail damage is a common thing on cars. The dealer tried to tell us that she had hail damage on the roof of her car. However, he…

Oh.. don't even get me started on the whole presumption that we can't drive a stickshift. That is a whole 'nother rant!

Invoice price means nothing...all US makes and some foreign have 7-10% of cost discounted to the dealer below invoice. Costco's deals are typically 4% over net net cost. The average car sold is at 9% over net net...after hours of negotiation...so a 4% deal without wasting hours of time is freaking awesome. …

Ooh, that reminds me. A little off topic but my mom and I were visiting my grandma on a recent weekend and had lunch with extended family before leaving Sunday. One of my great-aunts asked where my husband was, and I said, "Oh, this was kind of a girl's weekend. We didn't want to drag Mr. Brrr around Dillard's" (my…

It's really disheartening to see so many commenters making some kind of comment about the negotiating based on the monthly cost of the financing. DON'T DO THAT. I'm not suggesting you don't consider it personally, obviously that's a significant way to measure what you can afford. Just don't go in thinking that's…

Still not a fan of her music, but she seems like a genuinely nice, sweet person.

I'm a nasty sarcastic goth bitch and I'd have hated her with a fiery passion when I was in her target audience demographic, but I don't know, since Kanye interrupted her I've sort of admired her for what she is. Cheesy bubble gum pop-country, sure, but she at least co-writes her own songs, which makes her more of a…

The price Costco gave me was something like $600 under dealer invoice for my car (it varies by make and model). I think a serious negotiator who wanted to invest 4-6 hours in haggling could probably save another couple hundred bucks, but I'm a single woman and not a good negotiator, so this was a good option for me.…

For some reason, men believe that while in all logic you have been driving, living in a house, and using a computer for the same amount of time as a man of your age, he will be an expert, while your skills only extend to crochet and embroidery (2 things that I would be hard-pressed to do any day).

I went to buy a car, was jerked around quite a bit but finally got them to the total price I knew was fair from the research I'd done (including all the extra crap like documentation fees). Then when I went to sign the paperwork, somehow an extra $250 had been added to the list of all the various charges. I confronted…

Crap like this is why it is worth it to use a car-buying service like AAA or Costco, or to go in and test drive, but then buy from the online dept. You get a price guaranteed and don't have to deal with the idiot lying salespeople. I bought my last car using the Costco service and it was so easy. You research what car…

I would like to say for all my Socal Jezebel's, do not buy a car from Cerritos Nissan. They tried to pull this bullshit on me and it still gets me shaking mad when I think about it. No respect, blatant lies, full attempts to give me a jacked interest rate despite my stellar credit.

YES. This article didn't say more women were falling for the bullshit more, just more women were getting bullshit. I imagine a similar percentage of men as women fall for it, just fewer men are subjected to it.

People tend to buy as much house as they can afford. And it's not always the easiest thing to understand the effect a $300,000 purchase has on your monthly income budget. Those aren't things everyone spends a lot of time thinking about, especially people who grew up without a lot of money. Many people rely on a…

This is so annoying, and happens whether it is a car, a property, or something electronic that you're buying. For some reason, men believe that while in all logic you have been driving, living in a house, and using a computer for the same amount of time as a man of your age, he will be an expert, while your skills…

My Dad grew up dirt poor and is a vicious negotiator. A few years back, through extensive research and rebates and this and that he got a very sweet deal on a very popular car - a fully loaded Honda Accord, which usually sells itself.

My all time favorite example of this was an acquaintance's mother who as VP was charged with buying a new fleet of vehicles for the company. She did some research, went to the dealership, did test drives and talked specks, and finally settled on a car, but before she could explained that she wanted a dozen of them,…

I got my first car after I graduated law school and ended up with a Nissan because I was treated similarly by a Honda dealership. I was leasing, not buying, and the sales guy straight up lied to my face about the amount of local and state taxes for leasing, telling me they were much higher than they were when I…

I truly wish that I was better at negotiating. Honestly, doing it just makes me uncomfortable. It's for this reason that I've purchased my cars online, so I don't have to deal with being overcharged or underestimated. Negotiating skills would've come in handy recently when I accepted a position where I earn…

Honestly, the best way to deal with car buying is to do 95% of it over the Internet - make multiple dealers bid down against each other until they can go no lower, and when you do finally go in to finalize things, make it clear that you've got other very viable options and are ready to walk at the first smell of…