when I traded in my 03 POS ES lancer the suspension was shot, tranny was slipping and the cooling system was leaking and engin was pinging loud! and the interior was torn up and stained... it had 80k miles on it And I got $3000 for it...LOL

 

thats why we set cars on fire, get the insurance then buy a new car....
not that i do i but any resemblance is totally a coincidence....

 

They can do something about the price. If they want a sale, they will bend over backwards with the right pressure.

When i bought my RA the sales manager said to me that he wanted his guy to get some commision. I told him i don't care if your salesman has to eat ramen noodles for a month, so before financing, i talked them down to 12,500ish. 17,000 out the door.

 

i went to a local dealership and they offered me 1k over blue book cost for my evo?

 

damn thiat sucks lol..

well they gotta make money somehow!

 

They make money off of the people that just take the first offer dropped on the table.

I won't have to worry about hassling with a dealership next time. I get a nice Corp Perk and pay 1% below dealer invoice.

 

Fixed it for you.

 

dam|\| i got my 04 ra for 10500 with a needle unnder 3 thousand miles.


my friend brought her intrepid to trade in when she got her cobalt and they offered her 1000. so her dad put it up for sale instead and within 1 day it sold for 3500

 

Every business has to make a profit to stay open.

 

you guys think car dealerships are bad... i work in a yamaha shop, you should see what they give for used bikes... its funny because people want to upgrade so bad they take anything they can get pretty much.

 

yourself! theyre all crooks!! and I worked at a mitsu/mazda STEALERSHIP.. so I know.. so again to you buddy

 

Because bikes are like ATVs, snowmobiles, lawnmowers...etc. Their depreciation factor is much much steeper. They are much cheaper to begin with and there is no shortage of them. People need cars more then they need a bike or ATV. Harley has done a good job of actually creating a demand, shortage, and therefore bikes that actually hold value and may actually appreciate. But the Japanese crank out as many as possible. There's a saying about bikes:. "There's always somebody dying to get one and somebody dying to get rid of one."

Oh, please - do tell. What was your position there before you saw the light and left? What about your experience at one store gives you the right to call everyone in an industry a crook?

 

Before I wreck my ralliart (should be fix soon), it was nearing 60kmiles and I had it appraised for 12k at some assorted car dealership. I was gonna trade it in for 2005 Evo.

Didn't seem right to me, but who was I to complain at that point in time. I turn the offer down because they wanted $1000 down and I only wanted to put $500. Two week later I wreck my car,

Another thing is, while most dealership want you to take off parts, they wanted me to leave mine on,