Growing

We have some exciting news- our family is getting bigger!

No, we're not expecting..... Scott and I finally purchased another car! After what seems like months of looking and bargaining, we are thrilled with our find!

We decided to get another car for fall when we move back to Cinci- it'd be impossible for us to both have jobs and go to 2 separate campus locations with one vehicle. I can already feel a headche coming on as I type about the situation....

It's a silver '01 Honda Accord with 103,000 miles. I think we made the dealer a little peeved when we told him the price we were willing to pay. I did some homework on kbb.com and read some reviews so we could go in with some idea of what was a fair price. We offered about $1800 less than the sticker price and the dealer basically laughed and told us he wouldn't go less than $800 from said sticker. We asked to see another car and when we came back he was willing to go down another $200. We told him that wasn't in our budget and he dropped the price again- $1200 off. We looked at each other- the kind of look you give when you know you're so close to getting what you want it's all you can do to control your drool- but we said no. (I think somewhere in my family line is the same "I want a bargain" gene that consumes Scott's buying power...) He said, "What's the most you are willing to pay for the car???" We told him, and his face was in pure amazement in the fact that we would still offer so low since he'd come down quite a bit. He counter offered $100 more than our desired price, and what happened next was priceless. Scott looked at him, sat up in the chair and said, "We'll take a card and think about it". The dealer put his elbows on his desk, dropped in head in his hands and said, "ok". And that was all it took. He gave it to us for what we were willing to spend- about $400 more than the KBB private party value. AWESOME.

So 2 things I've learned today (before 11am!):
A. Never give up until you find what you're looking for.
2. Scott's doing more than getting a ridiculously good farmer's tan this summer- he's learning a lot about sales tactics and consumerism. Is that a word?