Ok - just one more car-search story, only because I think the point is very important, short & sweet. ALWAYS be honest and candid when selling your car. If you’re not 110% brutally forthright in communication with your potential customers, you’ll damage the the developing seller/buyer relationship, creating distrust that can easily make a no-sale. [...]
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One more looking-for-a-car story and hopefully the last one (or one of the last) you’ll see for a while. The theme may be familiar, but the lesson here is worth illustrating. It was so obvious that I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. I really hope that my family can decide on a car here shortly. [...]
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As many of my readers know, I have a teenage driver in the family now. Mary has an after-school job and my wife (and myself, mostly) think that it would be a good idea to have a third car available to her, mostly for the convenience. Something cheap, older and mid-size, as I’m not part [...]
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I thought that extended warranties would be a great topic after I heard that a young couple had just purchased their first new car, a Toyota Corolla, and bought an extended warranty from the dealership. I’ll tell you right now - I think that extended warranties on ANY car, new or used, is a terrible [...]
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With all of the flooding in the Midwest this spring and summer, the used car market is bound to be awash (no pun intended) in used cars for sale that have seen some high water. It was estimated that 200,000 cars were damaged during hurricaine Katrina, and many of those were fraudulently “reclaimed” and sold [...]
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I’ve now joined the “shopping for a car” crowd because of a new driver in the family - read about it here. I figured that since we mostly drive older American Iron with lots of miles (1994 Taurus Wagon, 123,000 miles and a 1998 Ford Windstar with 127,000 miles), I’d better be on the lookout [...]
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