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Musings from Dad helping his daughter buy her first new car
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<blockquote data-quote="gixxerjasen" data-source="post: 1267129" data-attributes="member: 20220"><p>Next time tell her to listen about the seat adjustments. Don't know about her car but mine has the ability to crank up or down the seat height. I'm short at 5'7" and it helped me a lot. I'm sure it would make a world of difference to her as well. Being able to be comfortable, see and reach everything starts with setting up the seat. Sounds like the Scion fit her as it was set on the showroom floor though.</p><p></p><p>Not sure it's a generation thing with the haggling, just personality. Both me and my dad hate hate hate haggling and dealing with sales people. My dad goes on frequent mission trips to South America and the folks at the markets expect you to haggle with them and they get all disgusted with him because he doesn't haggle. His friends will poke fun and my dad just turns and is like "With the exchange rate, I just got lunch for a dollar, why do I need to haggle them down to $0.50?"</p><p></p><p>I hate haggling especially over a car. I'll almost get sick to my stomach when it comes to walking onto a car lot. It wasn't helped by being friends with a car salesman who told me a lot of the tricks they used to use with customers. It gave me ammo but also let me see the number of ways they can try to take you down. It's not fun and I hate every minute of it. That said, it throws me for a loop when I get a hold of one of the no haggle places. I was sure I could have gotten a better deal elsewhere by haggling, but in the end I look back and that was the only car buying experience where I left the dealership happy, which is as it should be since I usually end up leaving angry with my new car from the experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gixxerjasen, post: 1267129, member: 20220"] Next time tell her to listen about the seat adjustments. Don't know about her car but mine has the ability to crank up or down the seat height. I'm short at 5'7" and it helped me a lot. I'm sure it would make a world of difference to her as well. Being able to be comfortable, see and reach everything starts with setting up the seat. Sounds like the Scion fit her as it was set on the showroom floor though. Not sure it's a generation thing with the haggling, just personality. Both me and my dad hate hate hate haggling and dealing with sales people. My dad goes on frequent mission trips to South America and the folks at the markets expect you to haggle with them and they get all disgusted with him because he doesn't haggle. His friends will poke fun and my dad just turns and is like "With the exchange rate, I just got lunch for a dollar, why do I need to haggle them down to $0.50?" I hate haggling especially over a car. I'll almost get sick to my stomach when it comes to walking onto a car lot. It wasn't helped by being friends with a car salesman who told me a lot of the tricks they used to use with customers. It gave me ammo but also let me see the number of ways they can try to take you down. It's not fun and I hate every minute of it. That said, it throws me for a loop when I get a hold of one of the no haggle places. I was sure I could have gotten a better deal elsewhere by haggling, but in the end I look back and that was the only car buying experience where I left the dealership happy, which is as it should be since I usually end up leaving angry with my new car from the experience. [/QUOTE]
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