Saturday, December 30, 2006

Hold Everything

'memba we bought a Buick yesterday? Well, guess what. Spanky from "Discount Dealer" called. Sharks! All of them! They've called us twice since our Thursday road test. We didn't buy a car from them and they're not willing to give up a prospective customer without a fight. I don't fault them for that. This is a new (to us) salesman calling. Says he has a 2002 Caravan that we need to see. "Under $10000". So I tell him that we're interested in the car if he can sell it for $8000, no more. He says he'll see what he can do. I'm interested, so we go back to "Discount Dealer" and drive the Caravan. Nice car. We like it. We haggle. We buy the car. $8250 with a warranty, 10 years or 100,000 miles. But wait, it's not warranteed for another 10 years, and it's not warranteed for another 100,000 miles. The warranty is good until the car reaches 100,000 miles or until it's 10 years old. Glad I asked him to clarify that, else I'd be thinking that my warranty is good until 2017 or 153,000 miles! That's nuts! Anyhow, we got our deposit back from the place where we 'bought' the Buick. No trouble, but he did mention that he was getting two Caravans in next week. Wonder if he'll call us? But we're just test driving, not buying, remember?

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