I had another one yesterday. Geez people are amazing you know. An elderly lady called the dealership and said she "heard" where Kia had $8000 in rebate and 0% on a Kia Sorento. After I told her it was $4000 in rebate, and told her that I just looked at www.kia.com and that found out. She huffed and scoffed. Then asked me what was her trade in really worth, over the phone just give her an idea. She wouldn't hold me to it, since I would need to see it. Well shit, we all know where that one is going. No matter what I say it will not be good enough, and if it is a wild guess out of the blue you can bet the farm she would hold me to it. So I told her about www.kbb.com (kelly blue book) and that would give us a good guide, but not be exact. I asked her why was she wanting to get out of her 2006 Buick Lecrosse with only 11,000 miles on it so soon? She began telling me her mother died and how she is the executor of the will. And her brother lives in N.C. and she doesn't want to ship a bench/chest that has marble on it, cause it would crack the marble in shipping. She wanted an SUV in the beginning but her husband said no and that they were getting a nice car. It would ride nicer and would get better gas mileage. Well after I told her about the rebate being less than what she wanted and that the 0% was not with the full rebate. Then telling her that her trade in was "probably worth X" . Which by the way was about $6000 less than what she owed on it. I also mentioned that the SUV route will not get her the gas mileage she expected just like a car. She began to tell me how I did not want to sell her a SUV and she did not like the way I acted on the phone. She said, "I have excellent credit, and I don't think you want to sell me a car". "Ma'am I never once asked how your credit was, it never came up in the entire time we have been talking." "You have only told me about your brother living in North Carolina." "Well, you asked me why I wanted out of my car". "Yes, asking questions is part of my job. If I don't ask the right questions you could get right back in the same situation. And that would not be good for my job". "Well your telling me that my Buick is worth $13,000 after I told you I owed $19,000. ( I told you) I deal with this all freaking day long.
Have you ever noticed, No one wants to come to Jesus on prom night, only after the little home pregnancy test comes back positive they blame everybody else for their actions.
This entire conversation took 16 minutes out of my life. That I will never get back. Instead of calling me and wasting her time and mine. I wish she would have done the following. Talk to your husband about how you are not happy with his choice of the Buick. You would be so much happier if he were to spend his money on something that you could load up, drive half way accross the country, just to deliver some old chest to a relative that never visits. Oh and you need him to load the chest into the SUV and throw out his aging back getting it in and out of your gas guzzling SUV.
Also you would need that "excellent credit" just to get out of the mess you are in now. And with the lack of thinking your doing, it will put you in a situation that will be more of a mess.
Peace for now.
