{"id":1473,"date":"2010-02-13T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2022-02-19T01:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T07:18:47","slug":"buying-a-new-car-round-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1473","title":{"rendered":"Buying a New Car round Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Poor Sweetie hates car shopping. We went out about a month ago and test drove a few cars and talked to A few salesman. Then we started pondering and decided to get her another Toyota Highlander but then the whole safety issue blew up and even the Wall Street Journal was writing that Toyota has historically been slow to respond to safety defects so as we oilfield trash say, we P&A’d the Highlander. (Plugged and Abandoned to you genteel non-oilfield trash.)<\/p>\n

So we’ve decided to go after the Honda Pilot, a somewhat larger mid-size SUV which we finalized when we were surfing through the Honda City website<\/a> and got satisfied with the decision that we made.<\/p>\n

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So off we went to one of our local Honda Dealers. As we drove up we could see the salesman looking out the window at us and I remarked to Sweetie. “I wonder which one of the blood sucking maggots (“BSM”) we are going to get.”<\/p>\n

Turns out, we didn’t get a BSM. We got a real nice young man (about my age in other words), Joe. Joe was cool. He showed the cars, explained the various trim lines, the various features, how stuff worked. He didn’t insinuate himself on us, didn’t ask if we were Sooner fans, blah blah blah, didn’t point us to the most expensive car on the lot. Hey in other words he is a professional salesman acting professionally.<\/p>\n

We went on a test drive and liked it. He took our car and had his used car guys look at it while we wandered around the showroom. They had a beautiful old 1966 Honda sports car.<\/p>\n

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And then he presented us an offer without us having to wait a long time. We weren’t ready yet to buy, we always sleep on it. We have to check things out, do a gut check. It has got to feel right. I’m just that kind of guy. He was ok with that. He didn’t do the old “Well somebody else was looking at that one and they are coming back, blah blah blah.” He didn’t do any games at all. And he said, “I’m not one that is going to pestering you on the phone.” Wow.<\/p>\n

We went home and checked out their offer online. Their offer is right in line with what the car is worth and their offer on the trade in is in line also.<\/p>\n

OK, but I’m not here to get an average deal. I mean who else is buying cars in February? So I’ll be calling Joe today. With any luck at all Sweetie will have a new car soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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