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purple hayes
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 Posted: 06/16/05 - 11:53 Post subject: there's too much emotion
involved in buying a car.
It should be a strictly emotionless exercise. 
Backstory :: Wife's van blew a head gasket. Van is screwed. We're currently car shopping.
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copteacher
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Posted: 06/16/05 - 11:56 Post subject:
henry ford had it right. You can have any color as long as it is black.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 06/16/05 - 11:57 Post subject:
I. hate. car. shopping.
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Noley
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Posted: 06/16/05 - 11:57 Post subject:
I seriously stress out over this right now. My van is paid for and I don't know how in the world I can budget in a new/new used car when the time comes.
Hopefully, I have a few more years before facing this...but it stresses me all the same.
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rolling rock
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Posted: 06/16/05 - 11:59 Post subject:
what can we do to get you in this vehicle today.....huh? what's it gonna take?
no wonder i'm driving a 10 year old minivan. i feel slightly nauseous at the moment.
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j1miller
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Posted: 06/16/05 - 12:00 Post subject:
I'm gettign one soon, too.
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Pug
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Posted: 06/16/05 - 12:01 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | what can we do to get you in this vehicle today.....huh? what's it gonna take?
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$30 a month in car payments for 60 months, upgrade my cd player in the car to a 5 disc, and I want a $0 deductible for an extended service contract.
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jrjo
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Posted: 06/16/05 - 12:05 Post subject: Re: there's too much emotion
| purple hayes wrote: | involved in buying a car.
It should be a strictly emotionless exercise. |
Heck, make it that way. Go to autotrader.com, plunk in the make, model, mileage, price, engine size, color, search radius and click, you'll have it right there. I've done it a few times. Works like a charm.
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robp
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Posted: 06/16/05 - 12:05 Post subject: Re: there's too much emotion
| purple hayes wrote: | involved in buying a car.
It should be a strictly emotionless exercise.
Backstory :: Wife's van blew a head gasket. Van is screwed. We're currently car shopping. |
Inneundo meter overload! Innuendo meter overload!
Thank you mb.....
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spongebob
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Posted: 06/16/05 - 12:08 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | I. hate. car. shopping. |
Clearly.
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robp
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Posted: 06/16/05 - 12:09 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | I. hate. car. shopping. |
Only because you've never found a suitable replacement for the 'sty.....
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cherylpf
crazy cat lady
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Posted: 06/16/05 - 12:12 Post subject:
| robp wrote: |
Only because you've never found a suitable replacement for the 'sty..... |
Nothing can take its place in my bowels I mean heart
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TriBob
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Posted: 06/16/05 - 12:13 Post subject:
We bought one Tuesday night. A bigger SUV just to help out the oil companies.
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kristin31
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Posted: 06/16/05 - 12:18 Post subject:
Am I the only person who LIKES test driving and shopping for cars? (Maybe it helps that I always used to bring either my dad or one of my male friends. It helps to have someone who really loves/knows cars and is good at haggling. As it turns out, the DH is quite accomplished in these departments as well.)
What are you looking at, PH?
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Pug
The Movie Geek
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Posted: 06/16/05 - 12:19 Post subject:
| kristin31 wrote: | Am I the only person who LIKES test driving and shopping for cars? (Maybe it helps that I always used to bring either my dad or one of my male friends. It helps to have someone who really loves/knows cars and is good at haggling. As it turns out, the DH is quite accomplished in these departments as well.)
What are you looking at, PH? |
I don't mind it because I would shop at a no haggle dealership (typically Saturn). The couple times we got a weird vibe from the salesman we just asked to work with someone else.
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