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...

 

[Zloth]

I don't think I've even had the opportunity to pay sticker price! They always gave me some sort of "but I can get it for you for $3K less" line as they're walking with me. And, of course, there's always the 'let me go check with my manager' bit.

Well, always until Tesla. Hard to haggle with a 'buy' button on a web page.

 

[Zed Clampet]

The cavemen on my sports site are once again discussing the likelihood that Stonehenge and the pyramids were built by aliens. One of them asked how people from all around the world independently came up with the idea for pyramids I asked him if he'd never played with children's blocks before. Pyramids beg to be built if you don't want stuff toppling over. Two-year-olds have been independently inventing the pyramid for ages now.

But thinking that an alien intelligent species built stuff on Earth instead of the intelligent species that actually lives here is the pinnacle of illogical thinking.

If you came into your kitchen and your child was sitting at the kitchen table with the empty cookie jar, would you assume that someone flew in from China and ate the cookies?

And what's the purpose of these sites? You have to assume they are magic, right? I mean, you wouldn't agree to get in Elon Musk's rockets of death to travel to Alpha Centauri and pile some rocks up that let you know when the winter and summer solstices are, would you? I mean, how neighborly was that? These incredibly advanced aliens broke the laws of physics to make us a two day calendar. But that's nothing compared to the 40 story rock stack they built to bury a slave-holding Egyptian dictator. What's really weird, though, is that despite their technology, the aliens made several substandard pyramids first as they honed their craft.

 

[Zloth]

Two-year-olds have been independently inventing the pyramid for ages now.

Proves their point. Even I know that two-year-olds are aliens.