He would have been proud

Posted by Sammy on Feb 21st, 2010 | no comments home title

Over the past few days I’ve gathered quotes for a new Honda Pilot. I had decided that if I had to get rid of Gary’s car that I could use the money from his car, and take whatever my car is worth and roll it into a new Honda Pilot. I currently drive a Pilot but the new one is SWEET. Well I don’t have much time to move on this because of the fact that not only is our car insurance up for renewal in a few weeks but the car registrations on both of our cars are due THIS week because they are both in his name, and guess what’s this Thursday??? Yup Gary’s birthday (what would have been his 34th).

So yeah back to the reason for the post. I went into the same car dealership that we bought my Pilot from armed with 3 other quotes. I didn’t tell them I had the quotes when I got there. I did tell them that I did know that I could get the car I wanted for $3500 under MSRP. I KNEW this. Well their initial offer was only at $3k below MSRP. I laughed at them. Seriously? Do you really think I’m THAT dumb???? Yes I’m a woman, and usually women can’t haggle but I’ll be damned if they are going to take advantage of ME. So I then told them that I knew they could do better than that and pulled out my other quotes.

The saleperson went back to the manager and came back saying something to the effect that these other dealers were lowballing me and there is no way they could sell the car to me at that price because they’d be losing out on $800. I told them that they weren’t the only dealer willing to go that low. So ultimately they decided to budge and gave me the car for exactly what I wanted.

So I’m now sporting a brand spanking new RED Honda Pilot, and I love it! Gary would have been so proud of me for doing this all by myself. I definitely learned from the best.