Thread: Employee Discounted Cars: Flatout BIG LIE!

I just now bought an Acura doing this "phone them all at the end of the month" method and once again it worked like a charm. There are far less Acura dealers around, but I still found about 10 (some as far as 3hrs away) that I emailed or sent a message to via their website. Of them, I heard from 5. Only 3 were serious about dealing. I bought a 2006 RSX for $300 over invoice. Is it the best deal possible? Who knows, it was the best I stirred up by contacting 12 dealers via email and talking to several for about a total of an hour all together. The deal may be better or worse next month. But, it's hard to call invoice + $300 bad.

I got my car from a dealer for more than $1000 less than what a private party probably could have gotten for it. I totaled it a year later and still got $600 more than I paid for it a year previous you just have to know someone who knows people.

kbyrd - I've heard of a similar method using FAXes. Probably doesn't get the same rates as cold calling, but it would work in a heavily saturated area....


OTOH - does anyone realize that new cars are the absolute worst way to spend money? Yes - a cool car makes your member larger, but is it really worth the steel toed boot to the shorts? Just wait 2 years and pick up an off-lease sucker. Then two years later, sell it (not to a dealer) and pick up another off-lease one. You'll end up spending less and still have a respectable ride!

You get alot for what you pay for. Thank god for mass production.

you will never get a good deal on a new car... it loses its value when you drive it off the lot!!! Ridiculous (like my spelling!)

Originally Posted by PatO

kbyrd - I've heard of a similar method using FAXes. Probably doesn't get the same rates as cold calling, but it would work in a heavily saturated area....


OTOH - does anyone realize that new cars are the absolute worst way to spend money? Yes - a cool car makes your member larger, but is it really worth the steel toed boot to the shorts? Just wait 2 years and pick up an off-lease sucker. Then two years later, sell it (not to a dealer) and pick up another off-lease one. You'll end up spending less and still have a respectable ride!

I am of the same opinion, and it is the truth.

I agree... HOWEVER, there will never be a substitute for getting a brand new car, adding whatever you want to it, driving it mile per mile and see it hit the first 100mi, then 200mi, etc.... but it isnt the best from a money perspective by any means....

Wow, you people just haggle over cars? Hell I give the guy at radio shack hell because I only want 10 feet of speaker wire not 50 feet. Try and deal wherever you go, you'd be suprized what people will say.

If I were to buy any auto at this point, I'd get an SUV with employee discount, and ask them for some credit on gas, or some gas discount. They want to get rid of this gas hogs.