Poppacapp

Well, went up to the dealer today. As I expected, they came in with an off the wall lowball offer. They offered me $33,000 trade for my car. The used car manager showed me a list of local 2012's for sale retail. 1 of them curiously happened to be for sale for $37000.00. The rest were low-mid 40's. (Imagine that! )Which is what he based my trade value on. I told them I wouldn't take any less than what I mentioned to them earlier($39,000).

I had printouts of all the local(within 300miles) 2012's for sale. The one for sale @ 37000, I asked him to go print the ad off for me.. I wanted to see it. He went back to the "desk", and came back without the ad, and mentioned the dealername that was selling it. I started search on my phone to get the phone number to call the dealer. Used car manager happens to then mention that the car sold 2 days ago. So the rest of the cars on his list were in the price range I already knew they would be in. I think he tried throwing a fake figure at me.

I got up and put my coat on.. told them I was in ZERO hurry to sell the car, and would put it in the trader for $40,000 and sell it pretty quick. Little back and forth reasoning from the manager etc etc etc. Bottom line, I stuck to my guns and he gave in and gave me exactly what I wanted for the trade.

Got this to replace it... slightly better fuel mileage(got 34mpg on the way home)

alan0614

Well done Mike, glad you got a fair deal. Our fleet has ran Fusions for years now and had great service. Of course I love the color.

Poppacapp

Thanks Alan. I was getting pretty pissed at one point... I think that's when the manager knew he was about to lose a sale. Love it so far. Not quite as fast though.

SHOHORSE

Good job mike. Talk about a color switch. Fusion looks great.

Hey Alan...Love the new sig...just too cool.

DK Pony

OH, I thought that was the 2015 mustang 4 door.

Congrats Mike

Zodiac

Congrats.

Shellback

Hey Mike, the new car really looks good. Could of been a little blacker, oh well.

Like how the dealer finally gave in. Some are really good, but there are too many who just make it hard to feel good about working with them.

Best to you and keep in touch, it was good to see you today.

Sleeper_GT

Congrats on getting this behind you Mike and sticking to your guns....

Poppacapp

Thanks everyone.

I liked my black car.. it was just too much of a pain to keep looking halfway clean. Part time job in itself. My previous car was white, so I am partial to that color too.

Widow Maker

Sounds like you had all your ducks in a row and they were doing everything possible to screw ya. Good job and glad you got what you wanted ... The new one looks awesome.... and yes, I am partial to white as well!!!