Well, hopefully it will.
I am trying to lead a 71 year old woman (my mother in law) through the car buying process and the car selling process.
She is used to just going in, handing them the keys to her car, and then trading her existing car and paying what they want to give her for the new car. Her idea of bargaining...no crap here...was "Can you take $25 off that price--the price that reams her on both transactions". The salesman just smiles and says "let me check with my manager".
So I sold her car for her using craigslist. She doesn't understand that her car's trade in value is $5,500 and I sold it for $6,900. THAT'S GOOD! Then when she told a neighbor what she sold it for, the neighbor said "Ahhh, you should have gotten more for it than that...I could have sold it for more than that".
So, despite what Kelly Blue Book and NADA and Edmunds says her car is worth, some uninformed dufass next door has somehow invalidated that deal. She somehow feels cheated. She found the paperwork from a previous car that had fewer miles and was newer that she traded--therefore she got more on trade in--and was upset because of that.
I have been dealing with car dealers all week on the new car through their internet pricing departments. I have what Edmunds says the car should sell for...$20,750...and I have several price quotes from dealers on the car of $20,718 to $21,200 and the winner of $20,089. I was ready to make the deal with them when my mother-in-law goes to a car lot to decide what color she wants. That dealer tells her $19,800 as a 'drive out' which is clearly before tax and their doc fees, etc. So no she wants to do that deal, despite the fact that it isn't true drive out.....she never learns!
She is a great person but she will drive you batty worrying about whether she got the best deal, etc.
Here's a funny one....I helped her navigate this Bush prescription drug plan and the 1,000 or so companies selling plans. I took her drugs she currently takes and did an excel spreadsheet showing which plans are best. It literally took me 15 hours total or better and I proved which plan was best in the cost/benefit arena. She went with it. Then she gets on the phone and talks with her idiot friends that have other criteria and some just looked at the cost (then complain because it didn't cover their drugs) and tells me "but Margie is paying $20 a month less than me".....ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!
God love her because I want to kill her right now!
Cal
