MR. evil
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Randi and I are in the process of buying a new car. All the paper work has been signed and the only thing left to do is to pick it up. The dealer we are getting the car from out in the Boston Area has been really slimy to deal with. Seeing how they gave us such an outrageously low price on the car I had a feeling they would try to screw me on my trade in. A 2001 Nissan Maxima with 115,000 miles on it. So on a whim I took the car down to the Hartford Car Max dealership on my lunch hour on Thursday to get it apprised. Car Max buys cars from people even if you don’t buy a car from them. In about 30 minutes I had an offer from them…..$4000, which was exactly the number I was hoping to get as a trade in. I was told the offer was good for 7 days. The Car Max dealership in Hartford is on the same strip that all the major new car dealerships are on. My appraiser told me that many of the new car dealerships will send there customers to Car Max to sell their trade-ins because Car Max usually beats what a dealer will offer.
I talked it over with Randi, and acquaintance that works as a car test driver / writer for Consumer reports. He told us to take the Car Max offer and run! So on Friday morning I brought the car and title down to the Car Max dealer, signed a few pieces of paper and had a check in hand in no time flat.
Later Friday afternoon we were at the new car dealership to sign all of the paper work on the car. The sales guy asked about our trade and I told him we sold the car out-right to Car Max for $4000. He joked and told me they would have given me $5000. But then told me there was no way the dealership would have given us $4000 for a car with 115,000 miles on it. He and several others at the dealership told us we would have probably been lucky to get $3000 from them. So we ended up making out pretty good.
I talked it over with Randi, and acquaintance that works as a car test driver / writer for Consumer reports. He told us to take the Car Max offer and run! So on Friday morning I brought the car and title down to the Car Max dealer, signed a few pieces of paper and had a check in hand in no time flat.
Later Friday afternoon we were at the new car dealership to sign all of the paper work on the car. The sales guy asked about our trade and I told him we sold the car out-right to Car Max for $4000. He joked and told me they would have given me $5000. But then told me there was no way the dealership would have given us $4000 for a car with 115,000 miles on it. He and several others at the dealership told us we would have probably been lucky to get $3000 from them. So we ended up making out pretty good.