Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[BeardyHat]

About to have a stroke. I was supposed to buy Guido a car this weekend, but I have bronchitis again, so the wife said she would go take care of it, so I let her have my checkbook. So she leaves and later in the day Guido sends me some pictures of his new SUV. He's really too tall to be driving a starter car, so we decided to go with a large used vehicle.

Then my wife comes home and I ask her how much it cost. It was a 2014 Buick Enclave with 100k miles on it. Definitely wouldn't have been my choice, but it is what it is. I knew my wife has been obsessed with GM vehicles, so I figured that was where this was going.

But then I find out she just paid the sticker price, so now I'm sitting here stewing. In the US, you never just pay the sticker price, especially not for a used vehicle. She didn't even try to negotiate. She just took MY CHECK and paid for it. I looked it up and the vehicle, before all the add-ons, should have been somewhere around $8500 (before add-ons this was $11,000), so I just paid at least $2500 extra.

Sorry to hear of your impending divorce.

Playing hardball and negotiating cars is kind of fun. One of the proudest experiences my wife and I have is negotiating a car from $12k to $8k. We came in dressed all nice and were prepared to walk at any moment and just gave the young salesman such a hard time.

Did similar with our van, when the guy is like, "It'll be $2500 after all the fees and such", my wife whips out our $2k cash and says, "I think I have an extra $50 in my wallet. Take it or leave it." and well, we've had that van for 5 years now.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Sorry to hear of your impending divorce.

Playing hardball and negotiating cars is kind of fun. One of the proudest experiences my wife and I have is negotiating a car from $12k to $8k. We came in dressed all nice and were prepared to walk at any moment and just gave the young salesman such a hard time.

Did similar with our van, when the guy is like, "It'll be $2500 after all the fees and such", my wife whips out our $2k cash and says, "I think I have an extra $50 in my wallet. Take it or leave it." and well, we've had that van for 5 years now.

I haven't even mentioned it to her. That's what I use online posting for.

I've slept and don't care anymore. I just need to make sure Guido realizes this is not the way it is supposed to work.

Well, that's my high expenditure done. Now for the mattress next month...