[Typhanie]

Yes, actually.

[fire2225ems]

its long past actually!

[nicole]

yesterday I went looking at new minivans. Only one dealer really payed any attention to me. I wonder if it was because I was wearing camo pants and black combat boots. Now mind you I am a frilly woman who has her nails and toes done and I have very long hair, but I had no makeup on yesterday. I was outside pressure washing the humongous logs out of some of my iguana cages and got a phone call to go check out this van. So I changed my shirt into a black tshirt and walked out the door and grabbed one of the work trucks and off I went.
I get there,, they would not even pay me any attention for about 30 minutes, he talks to me a little and then asked me if I would forsee any problems that might not get me financed I walked off,, apparently he had no idea what I was driving when I pulled in because when I walked over to my truck (2005 dodge ram) He came running back over and asked if I owned the truck and if I owned the construction company plastered all over the sides,, I simply replied YES ,,, and NO I wouldnt have any problems getting a van financed,, but I didnt want to finance I had cash. so he told me to step out and we would talk. I simply stated that he should never judge a book by its cover,, gave him the bird and drove off.

Now here is the question of the day did I take that all wrong, lol

[fire2225ems]

I don't think so, I hate dealers! you can tell that all they care about is their bottom line...

[Merlin]

Tsk tsk tsk, What are we gonna do with all you uppity women!
(ducking and running for cover!)

[nicole]

well apparantly he didnt think I was uppity because of my camo pants and combat boots. lol
Now I hope you are hiding real good because I am a very good aim

[Moshpitrockchick]

I prefer to buy from private parties, I got a really good price on the last car because of the circumstances...the previous owners were brutally murdered so she just wanted the car gone.

[SurvivorSteph]

I think you handled it quite well... except maybe for the bird. LOL

I had a similar experience when I bought my RX8... I had just gotten back into town after an 18 hour road trip... moving my son home from 4 1/2 hours away. We drove a rental cargo van down... packed his apartment up... drove back. All in enough time to only have the van for ONE day. (I ROCK... LOL). Anyway, my brother met me at the rental company to drive me home. I looked like death warmed over, served two days late. When I saw THE car (I'd been researching it for 4 months and expected to have to drive 6 hours to get one)... right in my own town!!! I screamed for my brother to stop. We got out and looked at the car... I wanted to show him the engine, and the salesman told me to stop. The hood was up, for goodness sake. SO... I told him that I wanted to see the engine. He told me no, and that I wouldn't be able to see anything anyway. I replied, "so you mean that if I wanted to buy this car you wouldn't let me inspect it?" He said that's right. I told him that I didn't need to buy the car there then, and told my bro and son, "Let's go." And I walked off. They were stunned because they knew how long I'd been looking for one and how much I wanted the car.

Well, it ate on me all week. So I decided that the best thing I could do was to go back and tell the owner what had happened. So I did... after work when I was dressed in a business suit. I explained that I had done 4 months of research on THAT car, and that I would NOT be buying it from him because of how his salesman treated me. (I told him the whole story in front of the salesman). I shook his hand and walked out.

Man, he couldn't have chased me down any faster! We chatted some more, and he offered to make me a "good deal." I asked what exactly he meant... he offered $5,000 less than I could get it anywhere else, so I took it. When I brought back my pre-qual letter from my bank, he laughed and asked if I wanted to buy TWO cars! LOL.

The salesman lost his job, by the way.

[nicole]

Well I got what I wanted today,, I also pocketed 4500.00 extra cash. I guess the horrible economy actually worked out in my favor today. It was a whopping 45 minute deal and done. This one is pretty cool,, it has all the dvd players on the seats,, and plenty of roaming room for Oscar to trash the joint on his way to the vet, lol. I bought the extended luxury version just for Oscar, lol. Maybe he wont ram the seats in this one
Oh and by the way.. I wore the camos and the combat boots today,, just to be obnoxious. I only had one time where they tried to sell me the brand new one,, I just simply stated if my giant tortoise craps all over the 30 grand van I might just have a coronary,, So I made the offer on the one I wanted and told him that was final,, showed him the cash,, it was a deal.
Very pleasant experience with this guy. Now I just need to find some interesting dvds for Oscar to watch while in the back on the way to the vets,, while wearing his Teenage mutant ninja turtle slippers, lol

[The D]

haha, Nicole you're awsome.