Best way to buy a new car for my daughter
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Anonymous
| Daughter is in CA attending graduate school and will need a car pretty soon. She wants to use my old car -2009 accord w/ 165k. I'd prefer getting a new car for her but not sure how to get her a new car from MD. Is there a way to order one from MD and have her pick it up from CA? Any thoughts you have are appreciated. TIA |
Anonymous
| Order it in CA near her. Email dealers with what you want and you can do it long distance. |
Anonymous
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Order it (or buy it off the lot) from a local dealer in CA.
I mean, what else would even be an option? |
Anonymous
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Fun excuse for you to fly out to visit her in CA! You can go in person to a local car dealership and buy the car right then and there.
Have a nice trip to CA! 
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Anonymous
| Do car dealers have new cars in stock now? |
Anonymous
No...we are looking now and it is all order and wait. |
Anonymous
How long is wait time? |
Anonymous
| What a weird conversation. There are no cars on dealer lots in CA? If you are wasteful enough to wanting to buy her a new car and for some reason CA doesn’t have new cars you can buy in MD and ship it to her, probably costs 1-2k. |
Anonymous
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You could buy her a nice pre-owned car. But you prefer to buy her a brand new car?
It seems like money isn’t concern. Just buy here in MD and ship it to CA. Shipping cost should in the $2k range. |
Anonymous
| She should buy her own car. You can send her a check to cover what you want to cover. |
Anonymous
Bingo bango. She is in grad school, she can make her own decisions. |
Anonymous
What if she has no experience buying a car (or negotiating) and will get ripped off or spend the money on something that is impractical, fast depreciating, or expensive to insure? Not everyone is a car expert or has any interest in cars beyond having one for transportation. If I were buying any of my kids a car we would minimally have a conversation about what they want and what I'm willing to pay for. I can't imagine what horrible decision my son could make if I wired him 30K for a car and said "knock yourself out, kid!" Talk about a terrible idea. They can make mistakes with *their* money. They don't need to make mistakes with *your* money. |
Anonymous
Not at all my experience. OP, skip electric cars and top ranked pricey SUV’s and you should be fine to buy off the lot. |