Your Buyer’s Folder and Consumer
Reports
Do your homework before going to a dealership to haggle over a new car. Be sure to bring all of the information that will help you to get the
best deal you can.
This info will all be included in your “buyer's folder”.
Here's a list of the information that you should have in your "Buyer's
folder".
These things will give you a huge advantage over the average buyer who walks naively into a
dealership like a bug dancing on a spider web---just attracting the spiders that are called "car salesmen".
Another option is to go to Consumer Reports and join (I think it's somewhere in the range of $20-$40 per year) and then
download their "New Car Buyer's Kit". Personally, I haven't checked out this "Kit." However, if you know anything at all about Consumer
Reports, you know that you can trust your life to everything that they say or recommend. I am a member--have been for
years. -ed.
I would highly recommend their kit as an addtition to this guide because you can't have too
many tools in your arsenal when you're preparing for psychological warfare with car salesmen!
Remember that Consumer Reports accepts no money whatsoever from any advertiser, vendor,
manufacturer, company reps, etc. They get their money for their lab research and salaries solely from the online membership fees and
magazine subscriptions.
As a matter of fact, they were sued back in '05 for a scathing article and review that they did on Sharper Image's "Ionic Breeze" line of air
purifiers. Sharper Image dropped their suit, however, after it was found that Consumer Reports---like normal---used a neutral third party
professional lab to test the Ionic Breeze line of air purifiers for their results
Contrast this with Sharper Image, who it was found to have been using a third party as well---except this "third party" tester was on Sharper
Image's secret payroll!
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