Help with negotiating with a car dealer

Puzzled88
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:37:15 +0000

I use edmunds.com just like Dad II and I also buy my cars on the last day of the month. The dealers who contact you after you ask for quotes on edmunds will try to call you on the phone. I always ask them what part of internet quote don’t they understand. You will want the quotes in writing and printed out when you go into the dealerships so there is no last minute monkey business. I’ve bought three cars this way now and the only tricky part is if you have a trade-in. In that case, I always print out three different estimates (Kelly Blue Book, Edmunds, NADA) and then when the dealer tries to lowball me, I wave my quotes from other dealers around and say I’m so sorry we can’t do business, I’d hoped to not have to go elsewhere. I did this most recently on a Prius on the last day of August and was really pleased with my deal.