How do you negotiate a used car with a dealer?

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Anonymous wrote:You can find reviews on reddit. Why buy out of state though? Is it a rare car?

Not in general but I have specific features I want only offered for limited years. It will be used.

PPI is not worth the money imo as many of them are done superficially or by incompetent inspectors. If I were looking out of state I’d filter out by carfax first. There are so many issues you can identify besides accidents by looking at a carfax report carefully such as maintenance, unusual repairs, exposure to road salt, etc. I would also avoid buying from used car shops and focus on major dealerships. Then just go there and self inspect including an obd scan

Did all except travel there and scan which am hoping to assign someone else for $200.

[Anonymous]

We are shopping for a used car right now (23/24 year) and not finding dealers willing to negotiate, even when there are two very similar cars at 2 dealers and one is priced $2000 less than the other (but we like the more expensive one slightly better). Like someone up thread said, we walked away after saying it was a little overpriced and they didn't follow up.

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I just bought a used car and imo it's pretty easy to look up what the price should be and I doubt they'll move much from there.

Weirdly, it seems like Florida might be the exception. But I feel like Florida is probably very hard on cars.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was recently shopping for a used car and was surprised by sales people reluctance to negotiate. A couple of them (from different dealerships) told me they don’t negotiate on used cars at all only on new ones. Not taking their word for that I offered to pay a 10% discounted price or I was going somewhere else. They declined.

We were told the same a few years ago and had a similar result. We walked, they never reached out, the car sold the following week.

Yup

[Anonymous]

Everyone says they wish dealers would just post a price and quit the games, so most did. Now people complain they won’t play the game….

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone says they wish dealers would just post a price and quit the games, so most did. Now people complain they won’t play the game….

I get that everyone likes a deal, but why not pay the listed price? Is it that people feel like a chump unless they can get one over on the big bad car dealership? Maybe you can negotiate something if there's a trade in or you can wrangle six months of Sirius XM.

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Anonymous wrote:I ask if they can do better. Even $500 off. Then ask for floor mats. At least it’s something.

More specifically, ask for new floor mats.

[Anonymous]

Two years ago, we considered purchasing a used Ford Expedition from a new car dealer (not Ford). They were asking about $38,000 and eventually let it go for $20,000. My assumption is that the non-Ford new car dealer wanted this behemoth machine off of his lot as it did not fit in with his brand's image. (I would have gladly given $20,000 for the car, but I was not courageous enough to make such a heavily discounted offer.)