This podcast and blog will explain how to Buy Smart and Save big on a car, truck, motorcycle or any other big ticket purchase

Resale is the key factor

Batteries require special metals

Batteries store coal power

500,000 pounds to move

CO2 is NOT the answer

Tax credits mostly for the rich

Resale value is always part of your cost

A seemingly good deal might be the opposite

Considered the least

Around the clock

Can you predict it?

What determines the value?

How to protect it

There are many factors

Brand can be big

Think it through first

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Negotiating your deal

When is it time to say yes?

Negotiating is part of every episode

Many methods, varied results

Knowledge is key

Due diligence support

Waiting for results

Can you do better?

Persistence

Deal and trade separate if possible

Talk when there is a need

Offer and facts together

You may need to walk

No substitute for due diligence

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Prepare yourself for the Business office experience

Electric vehicles CO2 is NOT the problem

Congress is buying EV stocks and then pushing them

3 trillion trees

37 billion vs 74 billion capacity

F&I as a conversation

Business office money

Reserve commissions can be huge

Be prepared, due diligence

Myriad of products

Every product can appeal to someone

Payment packing is real

How to guard

F&I Menu approach

Review you payment in the business office first

90 day bump

Listen to the products info, it might be good for you

Shop the F&I products before you go into buy

The more you know, the less their advantage

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·        Residual is important

·        They are burning

·        EV sales are not up

·        Diminution payments are real

·        Insurance pays resale loss?

·        EV insurance is not good news

·        Car, truck, motorcycle, motorhome or boat, Insurance is part of the process

·        Auto collision insurance is just another add on

·        Just because they sound cheap

·        Hundreds of companies, millions of quotes

·        Credit is the  key

·        Your driving record isn’t the number one factor

·        Loyalty?

·        Teen dollars

·        Bundling means nothing

·        Where are the discounts?

·        Shop Your insurance

·        With an inexpensive vehicle , do you need collision?

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Piloting crazy ads, in a crazy market

67% is a 1000% increase

A tyrannical demand

Toyota has made a good choice

190 years and it is still not right

A super car seat deal

Automotive ads explained

Crazy ads are even crazier

Disclosures that don’t help

Vague is the norm

Radio, TV, newspaper, socials

Bait and switch

Employee pricing

Crazy trade values

Surprises can be thousands

Ads only indicate dealer character

It doesn’t get better, it’s a culture

Look for dealers that advertise what they offer other than price

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Deal problems have a plan

Electrics have serious cold weather battery issues

No jump starting with EVs

Not a family vehicle

Jump start tip

If your deal has a problem

Factory problems follow a plan

Due diligence, due process

Follow the Chain of command

Salesperson, Manager, Dealer principal or GM

Manufacturer (Company.com) and the bank  

Better business (BBB.org)

Attorney general (your state.gov/attorney general)

FTC (federal)

UDAP statutes will help

Attorney last

Still no lease buy out relief

Assertive and persistent, not aggressive

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What is a factory certified pre-owned vehicle

Electric used is worse

Brand is the key factor in choice

CPO vehicles and value

Read all the material for a specific certified unit

Check points sound huge but

Just marketing another way

Bank rates with CPO vehicles are the same

Factory certified can cost several thousand more

Why pay in advance for what might happen

Low mileage and a clean car fax

Only the brand can certify the brand

The retail book value does not have an add on for certification

Certification versus resale value, zero

Sometimes the promises lower your guard

Certify your own and save big

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Electric versus gas facts, you decide

Pro is a short list

EV’s cost many thousands more

Resale will be less making the effective cost of ownership even more

Green new deal crazy

Reviews and reports on electric

Hybrid

Plug in hybrid

Total electric

The resale facts

Cost benefit ratio is High cost low benefit

1 Kw = 4 miles average

Weight vs distance

32 Kw for 100 miles

Kw’s cost between 25 and 50 cents

Gas isn’t that much different

Convenience has value

Price , distance, time, safety

The most recent concern  Safety

Building batteries is a crazy program

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The story on Upside down, aka under water, aka minus equity

Any list of quality brands, just use the top half

Rate price, resale and repair record first

Large wheel size usually doesn’t help you

Under water, minus equity, upside down

What can you do?

Why does it happen?

This market may have an opportunity

Type 1 and type 2 upside down

Due diligence

To minimize minus equity

Start with the right vehicle

Eight tips for the future

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Should you keep and fix your current vehicle or trade it 

Leasing and buying have different priorities

What are CAPA stickers

The crazy market can change plans

How old is yours

How does you vehicles future look

You need about 2 more years

If you must buy search outside of your market as well

Forced savings for a new project

Limit resale loss

Short term lease, maybe

Ask yourself the right questions

Keep your old one could lower insurance cost as well

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