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[quote=Anonymous]I've bought Fighting Chance and it is ok. I'm not sure it is worth $40 but it does give you some details about the specific manufacturer (whether they run any promotions or if they just offer financing) and the invoice prices for the specific car. But they tell you in the packet that the information released now on invoice price is irrelevant. Essentially all the manufacturers have changed the game so they overprice even what they sell the dealers and then provide the dealers large cash incentives when they hit certain sales milestones. So in essence the consumer will really never know what the true invoice cost is, so why bother? The tactic suggested for purchasing does work though. You just e-mail a ton of dealers asking for an exact year, model, and trim package and try to get the lowest price. Many of them won't play but if you e-mail 10 you might get half that will. Then out of those half you just start working the price down (again negotiating on the same Honda Accord EX or whatever) and eventually you will (or at least I did) get the price circa $6k down from the "invoice" price. So to me it was a good deal but a huge hassle and it also took me about 5 months to get off all the call/e-mail lists for the dealers I didn't buy from. [/quote]

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