I Finally Got a Car and Am Back In The DMV!!!

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May
19

I went home to Mississippi, to look for a car with hopes of finding one that would allow me to save some of the insurance money to support my training. I drove all over neighborhoods and dealerships looking for a great deal. Car lots were the worst! If you know me it would be no surprise to you that I studied a course to tell me the strategies of car salesmen and the counters. So, it was irritating to see the salesmen come with the tricks and lies. I got most of them down pretty low on the price but it was not as low as I wanted to pay.

I went to a particular Nissan dealership there and negotiated a great deal on a car, but finally gave them a lesser firmer price. The guy of course brought another guy over that said he wouldn’t sell it for that because he knew he could get more for it. So, he raised the price 2k, not knowing that I had already gotten the salesman that I was dealing with to tell me the bottom line price they could take for the car. Based off of the blue book value he could have raised it five to ten more thousands. So it was still a steal, but I just didn’t have that much cash. So, I left, and came back the next day with hopes of getting them to except my offer. The salesman that I had dealt with the day before had just left. I talked to him on the phone and he referred me to a new guy that would show me this other car. I asked him what was the least amount they would take for it. He didn’t know and asked the second guy that had raised the price on the previous car.

How did I know he would come with the exact price I told him I could pay for the other car? Of course he knew this car wasn’t worth this much but only was trying to get all of what I could pay!! So, I walked out not giving them a chance to negotiate or show me anything else. I told the new guy as I was walking to the car I was driving, how disgusted I was with the guy trying to play that ridiculous game with me as if I was ignorant. Of course I knew the values of the three specific car types I was set on. Not to mention I had also spent a whole week negotiating on those cars. The new guy even knew that the price the guy had given me was ridiculous.

The new guy tried to help me behind the scenes, but I found the car I wanted the next day. It took every penny I had gotten from the insurance, which was not the goal. I’m content with the fact that I got what I wanted for a change. I didn’t settle on what I wanted. The positive is my insurance went down $130 a month, the car has 90k less miles than my previous car, its better on gas, clean, dependable and I got a great price. So, things are continuing in the right direct and will continue!! I’ve decided a while ago not to settle anymore. If it’s not what I want, I don’t have a problem walking away swiftly!! Settling and not following my first mind caused me tons of problems and pain!!

I bought the car Friday evening and hit the road early Sunday morning. People were asking, so you got the tags and everything done already? Of course I did, I don’t play around! I went straight from the car lot to take care of those things not wasting a moment. That night my dad and his friend took care of some things that I wanted a certain way on the car. The next morning I got up at 7am to get some other things done. My dad was saying that I could have waited to get some of it done, but I wasn’t having it. I wanted everything the way I wanted it and wasn’t settling. I knew that once I got back I wouldn’t take time to do any of it, and it would never get done. The drive wasn’t bad this time my dad came along with me to help me drive.

I didn’t get a chance to do much of anything while there. I didn’t even train because I was looking for a car like a mad man. My dad had to make me rest one night because I wanted to go look through neighborhoods late night after a long day of it that started early am. I did get a chance to fish twice the first couple days. I hadn’t gone cat fishing in a couple years. Here is a video of me doing that below and you will see me afraid of being finned.lol Even though I hadn’t been fishing in a while I remembered that their fins are harder and sharper than most fish! My hand is already hurt so I definitely didn’t want that additional problem in my life!!