3 ms·
My best advice when haggling over a new car is to simply haggle over text/email. Never set foot on a stealership without a done deal. Contact all the dealershi
by goalonetwo 3y ago
My best advice when haggling over a new car is to simply haggle over text/email. Never set foot on a stealership without a done deal.
Contact all the dealership of the make you want to buy in a 2 or 3 hour radius and make them play against each other. This works better if you have a couple of weeks/days ahead of you.
Make them believe you will finance (as it allows you to get a better overall price sometimes). Whenever one guy makes an offer, forward it to all the other guys.
It helps if you know what is the lowest realistic number they are able to go to. There are a ton of forums and online communities where people share the numbers they were able to get.
Before getting to the dealership, get your financing in order (so you have an alternative to their financing).
One last trick: Once you get there, try to negotiate the price even lower by accepting to get some extended warranty. The trick is that by law, you can return the extended warranty before it kicks in and recover 100% of that cost!