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CURSED · 03-28-2008, 01:52 AM

Hi guys,

I'm a noob here, but I thought I'd toss in my two cents. I have two suggestions for guys who want to save a lot of money in shopping for cars/trucks:

1) CarBuyingTips.com new car buying guide, avoiding dealer scams, new cars, used car buying

These guys have a lot of good tips for buying cars in general. It's pretty detailed stuff, so sort through to the stuff you need to know.

2) Fighting Chance New Car Buying Guide - Buy or lease a new car with our car buying guide. Get new car invoice prices for most all vehicles. Buying a car? Don't do it without this car buying guide.

I'd seen their advertisements, and I've often wondered how reliable were the soundbytes? Well... pretty good actually. It worked for me, and I'll recap (briefly).

My car "died" Wednesday. I was planning on buying a truck when it died, so I had my eye on the Tundra for quite a while. I submitted my order to FC on Wed night. Had my packet e-mailed to me by Friday. Monday afternoon, I sent my letter to 19 dealers throughout my state/neighboring state. I got 11 "best" offers, one no thank, and a "I know what your doing" (whom I just asked if he wanted to sell a truck - he gave me a decent offer anyways). Bottom line: I met the dealer selling me the truck after no-kidding, not speaking to him more than a total of 15 minutes (and I even ordered/had them install nerf bars). The best part: no negotiation. Just straight-talk offers.

All I can say, is that it was the best $35 I've ever spent to get $530 below invoice (which may not be awesome, but I didn't have to work too hard to get there) when I had hoped to just get near invoice. Its very straight forward and his strategies are dealer friendly no-nonsense no-hardball negotiations work strategies for saving you money. I didn't speak to a single dealer for more than about 10 minutes total (and like I said, I contacted 19) I can't tell you more, as I don't want to steal James Bragg's business. He could charge $50 bucks and I'd still pay it!

But I've got a brand new 4 x 2 Black on Black '08 Tundra Class 5.7L DC for almost as cheap as I bought my wife's CRV three years ago. I need to buy her a mini-van now (I'm thinking Sienna), and I'm going to do Fighting Chance again. I'm feeling 10 feet tall right now.

03-28-2008, 01:52 AM	#19 (permalink)
CURSED Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 3	Hi guys, I'm a noob here, but I thought I'd toss in my two cents. I have two suggestions for guys who want to save a lot of money in shopping for cars/trucks: 1) CarBuyingTips.com new car buying guide, avoiding dealer scams, new cars, used car buying These guys have a lot of good tips for buying cars in general. It's pretty detailed stuff, so sort through to the stuff you need to know. 2) Fighting Chance New Car Buying Guide - Buy or lease a new car with our car buying guide. Get new car invoice prices for most all vehicles. Buying a car? Don't do it without this car buying guide. I'd seen their advertisements, and I've often wondered how reliable were the soundbytes? Well... pretty good actually. It worked for me, and I'll recap (briefly). My car "died" Wednesday. I was planning on buying a truck when it died, so I had my eye on the Tundra for quite a while. I submitted my order to FC on Wed night. Had my packet e-mailed to me by Friday. Monday afternoon, I sent my letter to 19 dealers throughout my state/neighboring state. I got 11 "best" offers, one no thank, and a "I know what your doing" (whom I just asked if he wanted to sell a truck - he gave me a decent offer anyways). Bottom line: I met the dealer selling me the truck after no-kidding, not speaking to him more than a total of 15 minutes (and I even ordered/had them install nerf bars). The best part: no negotiation. Just straight-talk offers. All I can say, is that it was the best $35 I've ever spent to get $530 below invoice (which may not be awesome, but I didn't have to work too hard to get there) when I had hoped to just get near invoice. Its very straight forward and his strategies are dealer friendly no-nonsense no-hardball negotiations work strategies for saving you money. I didn't speak to a single dealer for more than about 10 minutes total (and like I said, I contacted 19) I can't tell you more, as I don't want to steal James Bragg's business. He could charge $50 bucks and I'd still pay it! But I've got a brand new 4 x 2 Black on Black '08 Tundra Class 5.7L DC for almost as cheap as I bought my wife's CRV three years ago. I need to buy her a mini-van now (I'm thinking Sienna), and I'm going to do Fighting Chance again. I'm feeling 10 feet tall right now.