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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 692108" data-attributes="member: 2238">Good Tactics for Buying a CarIf you can you should always have two kinds of friends.  One is your lawyer.   If you have a friend who is a lawyer, take them with you when you go to negotiate.  The other friend to have is one who is a car salesman himself.  He knows all the scams, and if anything, the guys you are buying from might know who he is.  Bring him or her with you.  When you arrive, introduce everyone.  Introduce your lawyer friend as "a" lawyer from xyz firm.  Note your friend is not your lawyer.  (unless they are your lawyer.)Introduce your car selling buddy as your buddy.  Go in with a lie about yourself.  Make it tragic.  Make it believable.  One of the oldest tactics for selling cars, (or anytyhing else for that matter) is to find out somthing about the customer and then relate to it.  If they mention that they were an orphan, wow, you lost a parent at an early age, if they say they were in the army, wow, they were in the airforce...  etc etc.  All they are doing is making a relationship with you long enough for you to trust them enough to where you feel comfortable buying a car from them.  If you go in with a lie about somthing in your past, and the guy relates to it, this is a good indicator that not all is good.  This should be enough to size up the situation, get a decent offer and put you in some form of control of the situation.  They will remember you no matter what.  Make them remember you are going to be a tough cookie.  After that, find somthing you like, say you might come back, and leave.  Most likely they will call you with deals, just to get you back there.  Get a deal get it in writing, and always wait for the finnancing to go through before you drive it off the lot. Also beheving this way will make them treat you like you are richer than you are because only someone with money would be so careful.  Hope that helps.  I am lucky, I have a friend who is a car salesman but you wouldn't know it when he wasn't working.  I have known the guy for 26 years and I'm 26.   I also know someone who might be a pretty good lawyer some day (and she's a good looking chick, which is a powerful powerful combination! hehe)Also, my friend who just bought a car saw the same tactic, and deftly avoided it.  He kept getting calls from the dealer saying they had him approved for the loan.  A week later we get a notice from the bank they were operating through that the loan had not been approved.  Sounds familiar.Happy hunting.Aaron.</blockquote>

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