Rave: The modern car buying experience

[Freed Roger]

Something else I noticed: My wife did most the online searching from our laptop. She just lurked, and didn't enter any contact info. The next day, my email had quite a bit of spam from local car dealers.

Then, the day after we bought the car, I get a call on my cell from a salesman at another dealer that we used years ago -asking if we were looking for a vehicle. When I replied with a simple "No", he was like "are you sure?"

That officially ends my naïveté about other's ability to link my IP address and usage to my contact info.

. I literally was not home from the bank from paying off the loan on it and the salesman who sold it to me called to see if I needed help finding something.

do you think your activity with the bank clued the salesman in somehow and sold you out to the salesman, rather than cyberstalking? Reason I ask, I think my wife did check with our credit union on financing during the process.

[Diddy]

Something else I noticed: My wife did most the online searching from our laptop. She just lurked, and didn't enter any contact info. The next day, my email had quite a bit of spam from local car dealers.

Then, the day after we bought the car, I get a call on my cell from a salesman at another dealer that we used years ago -asking if we were looking for a vehicle. When I replied with a simple "No", he was like "are you sure?"

That officially ends my naïveté about other's ability to link my IP address and usage to my contact info.

. I literally was not home from the bank from paying off the loan on it and the salesman who sold it to me called to see if I needed help finding something.

do you think your activity with the bank clued the salesman in somehow and sold you out to the salesman, rather than cyberstalking? Reason I ask, I think my wife did check with our credit union on financing during the process.

I kind of assumed it was something to do with the title change. Could have been the bank but I'd refinanced the truck when we had our first kid and dont remember any inquiries then. I sold the truck to a friend that had been trying to buy it off of me since I'd bought it so I never advertised it online. I had test drove two suburbans at that point but they were both ones I'd seen for sale by owner. If anything I'd probably suspect nada.com before autotrader or cars.com based on how I'd searched to that point. Even my inquiry into what they would give me in trade was pretty unofficial because I'm friends with the dealer.

[Diddy]

carmax used car prices are very high. There was a Ford Focus (that's what my wife bought) on the lot with the exact same options with 4k miles that was a couple hundred over what we paid for a car at the dealer with 7 miles on it. I don't know the depreciation from mile 7 to mile 4,000, but I know it's pretty high.

CarMax will sell it to someone that can't get credit at ford.

[IMADreamer]

We bought a new Ram last year for the farm. I was pretty sure at one point my Dad was going to put the salesman from the first dealership through the wall. My Dad was going to just write a check, the dickhead basically refused to accept that and an argument ensued. I think after a half hour my Dad called the guy a slimy son of a [expletive] and we walked out. As we got to the truck we came in he basically cuts my Dad off and wouldn't let him in the car. I was pretty sure that salesman was dead but after my Dad turned real red and clinched his fist the salesman couldn't get away fast enough. Pretty stupid to lose a 50k dollar check because you are pushing dealer financing.

We went to the other Dodge dealer in the area and had a new truck in about an hour.

Why did they start calling them Ram and disasociating with he dodge name?

Back when all the bailouts happened they broke them off separate. The same for Viper and SRT. Which is even weirder because you can get a Dodge Challenger in a V6 or V8, or you can get an SRT Challenger in V8. They still all fall under the Chrysler umbrella but they are their own divisions now. I think it has something to do with fancy accounting I don't understand.

[MrCrowesGarden]

I'm surprised how much trouble people have had with CarMax ITT. I got my Silverado for way below blue book there, and the experience was completely painless.

[Freed Roger]

We got hosed in 2008 when our mini-van's cooling system crapped out going over Weston Pass in Colorado.

We faced about a thousand in repairs plus thousand or so more in travel costs/lost wages in awaiting the repairs.

The dealer in Colorado was so used to this scenario, that they sniffed it out right away. The cost of the new was Ok, the trade-in was next to nothing. I looked online and saw they had our old van for sale on their lot within a week.

[cardinalkarp]

I just bought a 2014 Mazda 6 back in July and the process couldn't have been easier. I think from test drive to signing financing paperwork took 2 hours.

[ghostrunner]

I'm surprised how much trouble people have had with CarMax ITT. I got my Silverado for way below blue book there, and the experience was completely painless.

Same here. Mine was right at value, maybe a bit below. I financed through my bank though and didn't bother with their loan.

My last 3 car purchases have been there. I won't go back to a dealer again unless something major changes with how they operate.

[jim]

I'm surprised how much trouble people have had with CarMax ITT. I got my Silverado for way below blue book there, and the experience was completely painless.

I bought my Mustang there in 2010. It was an '07, GT, California Special, with 3,099 miles. I got it well below blue book. But I was thinking about moving to a Jeep Wrangler, and was shopping last fall and it was ridiculous. You would have to be crazy to buy one used. Vehicles with 20-30k on them maybe 1,000 less than a brand new vehicle.

[Diddy]

We bought a new Ram last year for the farm. I was pretty sure at one point my Dad was going to put the salesman from the first dealership through the wall. My Dad was going to just write a check, the dickhead basically refused to accept that and an argument ensued. I think after a half hour my Dad called the guy a slimy son of a [expletive] and we walked out. As we got to the truck we came in he basically cuts my Dad off and wouldn't let him in the car. I was pretty sure that salesman was dead but after my Dad turned real red and clinched his fist the salesman couldn't get away fast enough. Pretty stupid to lose a 50k dollar check because you are pushing dealer financing.

We went to the other Dodge dealer in the area and had a new truck in about an hour.

Why did they start calling them Ram and disasociating with he dodge name?

Back when all the bailouts happened they broke them off separate. The same for Viper and SRT. Which is even weirder because you can get a Dodge Challenger in a V6 or V8, or you can get an SRT Challenger in V8. They still all fall under the Chrysler umbrella but they are their own divisions now. I think it has something to do with fancy accounting I don't understand.

Strange that I didn't notice it till maybe six months ago