Ever heard of this?
So my wife and I were looking for a new truck,which we were going to order, priced it out on Truecar, got 2 offers, went to the dealer and settled on the price, no problem there. We went on a Sunday, ...
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carringb wrote:X2. Take it to Car Max if you don't want to sell it yourself.
CarMax has a very honest, no pressure vehicle appraisal department, and you can walk out with a check that day if you take them on their offer. We did it on a Honda Civic, and they offered 2.5x what the Ford dealer did, and was close to what we could have expected for a private party sale.
Edit: Services like TrueCar and consumer Reports are a joke. The dealer invoice as presented to you is bogus.
Do some research at Fightingchance.com which is run by guys who used to be car salesman. They show you how to pit dealers against each other using nothing but email. For 40 bucks, it's the way I'd buy a new vehicle.
