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[Ecrofirt]

So I'm probably going to be used car shopping tomorrow, and I'm clueless as to how to haggle.

I've got around $4385 to buy the car with, if this is any indication.

How do Igo about this haggling process? And what's the highest priced car I should even attempt to look at?

 

[ToxicAdam]

Can't you use your 4300 and get a loan at a bank for more money?


I would look for a car in the 9000-10000 dollar range .. That would put you at about about 117 dollars a month on a 4 year loan.

 

[Justin Bailey]

Easiest way is to do your homework. First decide what car you want and find out what it goes for on the market and shop around. You don't have to be a cock about haggling, try to do it lightheartedly. Mention that you saw it somewhere else for some price, or this other place is giving you some cool extras and crap. Sound confident.

Basically cocky and funny.

 

[teh_pwn]

Used Civic.

 

[Monk]

4.8-5k.

 

[Ecrofirt]

Can't you use your 4300 and get a loan at a bank for more money?


I would look for a car in the 9000-10000 dollar range .. That would put you at about about 117 dollars a month on a 4 year loan.

I can't afford a car loan.

 

[aoi tsuki]

Decide on a car first, then go to the dealership, competitor's price, blue book value, etc. in hand, and work your price down (after test driving it of course).

Also, read this book:

http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=1288374150&pr=45027527#

 

[snaildog]

Can't you use your 4300 and get a loan at a bank for more money?


I would look for a car in the 9000-10000 dollar range .. That would put you at about about 117 dollars a month on a 4 year loan.

Is this common in the US? I can't think of anything stupider. Cars are for getting you from A to B, only get what you can afford.

 

[Tarazet]

It's almost impossible to make sure you get the best possible deal with used cars, as opposed to new cars. In the case of a dealer especially, you just can't tell how much they might have paid for the car. It might have been $1000 below KBB wholesale, or it might have been close to the private party value if the guy was upside down and the dealer was generous enough to bail him out.

The best you can do in most cases is good old-fashioned back and forth. Set a price at which you would absolutely, positively buy the car, and try to get the other guy to compromise.

 

[Scrow]

don't tell them how much money you have, the way you just told us.