car buying headache
Jul. 14th, 2010 04:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Buying a new car is so tiresome. Don't want to get into the long, boring details, but I should remember to put it in the "pros" column for buying vs leasing, because with a lease, it's guaranteed that I'll have to go through this stupid process again in ~3 years. Am planning to take my current car to my usual dealer this weekend to get it appraised. Since that's been one of the unknowns in this equation so far, it'll be kind of good to have a definitive number to work with.
OMG and now a new wrench in the works. Remember how I have the best/worst luck ever? Well, now on the verge of buying another car, I just received a call from dealership #2. They're starting to sell the HS again, but the car won't actually be ready for delivery until later in the month. If I buy the car before then and sell them mine, they'll loan me a Lexus to drive in the interim. They wanted me to come in tonight so that they could appraise my car and work out a deal (I highly doubt this is likely, but I do want to get it appraised by them, so I can compare it to tomorrow's appraisal). I was reluctant because I took the bus in today, so I'd have to take the bus home then drive all the way back out to them (they're close to my work place). So the guy's like, don't take the bus home! We'll have someone pick you up at work and chauffeur you home in a Lexus, so you can pick up your car and drive here! SIGH. Well, why not. Like I said, I want to get it appraised by various dealers anyway, and this will be the impetus to get it appraised by them. I wish my dad were here.
Oh, and there's the worry in the back of my head about whether this is really a good time to be shelling out this kind of $$.
Edit: Total waste of time as I suspected. WHY do they insist on playing these games? You KNOW if my offer is out of the ballpark, just say so from the beginning and don't waste both our time. Gah. I just don't want the car as much as they want me to want it.
TV Show Meme: Day 09 - Best scene ever: Liz dancing with Future!Max, Roswell
There was like, maybe 5 people who actually watched Roswell, but I'd be surprised if any one of them weren't touched by the scene of Liz dancing on her balcony with Future!Max, knowing she had just destroyed any chance of them ever being together ... all to save humankind. The back drop of Sheryl Crow's "I Shall Believe," Liz basking in her final moments with Max, Liz being left ultimately alone... so good.
OMG and now a new wrench in the works. Remember how I have the best/worst luck ever? Well, now on the verge of buying another car, I just received a call from dealership #2. They're starting to sell the HS again, but the car won't actually be ready for delivery until later in the month. If I buy the car before then and sell them mine, they'll loan me a Lexus to drive in the interim. They wanted me to come in tonight so that they could appraise my car and work out a deal (I highly doubt this is likely, but I do want to get it appraised by them, so I can compare it to tomorrow's appraisal). I was reluctant because I took the bus in today, so I'd have to take the bus home then drive all the way back out to them (they're close to my work place). So the guy's like, don't take the bus home! We'll have someone pick you up at work and chauffeur you home in a Lexus, so you can pick up your car and drive here! SIGH. Well, why not. Like I said, I want to get it appraised by various dealers anyway, and this will be the impetus to get it appraised by them. I wish my dad were here.
Oh, and there's the worry in the back of my head about whether this is really a good time to be shelling out this kind of $$.
Edit: Total waste of time as I suspected. WHY do they insist on playing these games? You KNOW if my offer is out of the ballpark, just say so from the beginning and don't waste both our time. Gah. I just don't want the car as much as they want me to want it.
TV Show Meme: Day 09 - Best scene ever: Liz dancing with Future!Max, Roswell
There was like, maybe 5 people who actually watched Roswell, but I'd be surprised if any one of them weren't touched by the scene of Liz dancing on her balcony with Future!Max, knowing she had just destroyed any chance of them ever being together ... all to save humankind. The back drop of Sheryl Crow's "I Shall Believe," Liz basking in her final moments with Max, Liz being left ultimately alone... so good.
