New Car
I was driving home last week and it was extremely cold outside, so I had the heat turned up high in the car. Once I reached highway speed I heard a bit of a crack. I looked up at the windshield and literally watched the small crack in my windshield grow larger (I got a crack back in Rochester when a stone got kicked up by a truck and made a small crack.) Then someone in front of me had to slow down and my car shimmied to a halt, I thought to myself, I don't really think that this car is very safe anymore. I wouldn't want one of my friends or family to take it further than about the corner store. It was then that I decided that Mufasa really needed to be put down. He's old, worn (135K miles), and battle scared. So I got quotes for insurance for the car I was interested in and went and bought a Honda Civic yesterday.
I think that I got a pretty good deal out of it. $200 under invoice for the car and I got $500 for Mufasa (the blue book is only like $550). There are no special incentives ever for Civics because they are so popular. I did pick a horrible rainy day to go in, and right towards the end of a really crappy quarter for car makers, and had negotiated with a few other dealers online that I wasn't really planning on working with because they didn't have the car in the color I really wanted. Then I took the lowest bid that I had negotiated down to the dealer who did have the car color I wanted and asked them to see what they could do. Of course they asked if they could match it, and I told them that I would like to see them beat that number for me to do business with them that day. After having done my research online and found that most of the websites said that the average price for consumers was about $800 above the price I got, I thought I did pretty well.
I went to the Boston Ballet today to see their choreographer's latest creations. The first one was weird and very Circ du Soleil, the second one was really good well chosen music and movement, just really good, the third was really classical in styling and pretty forgettable, the forth was just two guys dancing with one guy playing Bach on the piano, the fifth was just a little pointless - the guys were supposed to be the ocean/waves and the girls - as Jess put it - were dying crabs. Everything was in blue and it just didn't feel like it was going anywhere, then it felt like when the dancers got bored they just kind of ended it. It was entertaining and well worth the $35 tickets Jess got. Yeah for cheap tickets!
I think that I got a pretty good deal out of it. $200 under invoice for the car and I got $500 for Mufasa (the blue book is only like $550). There are no special incentives ever for Civics because they are so popular. I did pick a horrible rainy day to go in, and right towards the end of a really crappy quarter for car makers, and had negotiated with a few other dealers online that I wasn't really planning on working with because they didn't have the car in the color I really wanted. Then I took the lowest bid that I had negotiated down to the dealer who did have the car color I wanted and asked them to see what they could do. Of course they asked if they could match it, and I told them that I would like to see them beat that number for me to do business with them that day. After having done my research online and found that most of the websites said that the average price for consumers was about $800 above the price I got, I thought I did pretty well.
I went to the Boston Ballet today to see their choreographer's latest creations. The first one was weird and very Circ du Soleil, the second one was really good well chosen music and movement, just really good, the third was really classical in styling and pretty forgettable, the forth was just two guys dancing with one guy playing Bach on the piano, the fifth was just a little pointless - the guys were supposed to be the ocean/waves and the girls - as Jess put it - were dying crabs. Everything was in blue and it just didn't feel like it was going anywhere, then it felt like when the dancers got bored they just kind of ended it. It was entertaining and well worth the $35 tickets Jess got. Yeah for cheap tickets!
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