48 hours and a used car

[javacontour]

Originally Posted by PandaBear
Like all purchases, with emotion involved it would be hard. Many times people look at something with rose tinted glasses and then have buyer remorse. There is a reason these auctions are reserved for dealers only, they don't want to deal with retail buyer remorse (and if you are a dealer you know what you are signing up for).

For lease return why would someone pay $500 more when the local dealer can just sell it to you directly (and maybe discount that $500 commission).


I think because it's not really going to be $500 more.

The dealer buys out the return from the least company, cleans it a bit, runs it through the service department, and then bumps up the price $2k, sells you financing, etc.

The person who just wants a car, and not the whole dealership "experience" is probably getting a deal at $500 over the costs to buy the car at auction.

Used cars are one of the biggest money makers for dealers, so they are probably not just selling a $15-20k used car for $500 more than it cost them.

 

[pandus13]

Originally Posted by SatinSilver
Originally Posted by andyd
Originally Posted by NYSteve
If it is Steve Lang, I would trust him, if someone else I would not.
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I think he's on here as a member and is the one offering this service but not 100% on that. I forget his username but thought I saw a post by him with a link about this buying service recently. But it could have been a link posted by him where someone else is the buyer offering the service. Steve is located in Atlanta so it would make sense. Plus he writes a lot of articles for those not aware.

Steven Lang = Bitog user: macarose

 

[Wolf359]

I did this a while ago with a local guy. I wasn't too picky about the colors or the options, just wanted a certain year and some decent options. He basically went to the auction and bought the car and I showed up a few days later to pick it up. Handed him a personal check for it. He even had a used 30 day warranty on it, but I didn't need it because it still had 3 weeks left on the factory warranty and it had one problem which I took to the dealer to get fixed. Basically bought the car sight unseen and never drove it til I handed the check over.

I tried doing that again years later, but I was too picky and wanted to be able to run the cars through a vin decoder to see what options it had so he dropped me and I spent a lot of time looking at tons of cars and their options via the vin decoder.