Always get an inspection….

Did he say the quiet part out loud? "When they do pre-purchase inspection, we know they're not going to buy it."

There is a reason vehicles end up on these lots. Not all of them, but a lot of them.

We had an old GMC pickup that had a failed engine oil pump. The replacement would cost more than the truck was worth. The dealership offered a mercy trade-in of 10k.

My boss sold it to a curbsider for 15k, and they will probably try to get 20k

Buyer beware

Asking $36 grand for a nearly-11yo Super Duty with the 6.2 gas V8 is wild enough on its own, but asking that much for one that’s rusting apart should be illegal. Especially seeing that they tried to cover it up.

He laughs like Angry Birds

Car dealers are professional scumbags - blood sucking middle men who should it exist. I want to buy directly from manufacturers.

This is why I bought my car off Facebook.

It was my intention of going through some sort of car dealership but that's not what happened:

So at first my partner and I made a big Excel spreadsheet of all the vehicles that we were looking at. We made a point system based off how important that feature was to us: Gas mileage/ average cost of repair per year/ accessibility of parts/ safety rating/ size of interior ect.

After the boring part was taken care of we had our top 5 picks. 4 were at dealerships, and one was Facebook. Went to three dealerships, got shown three lemons. One of the cars had a rusted out bottom, another had an undisclosed salvage title.

A last on the list was the private seller. I thought it would be sketchy but It was not. We met up with a older married couple and they handed us the keys for the whole day and said to go get it checked out and bring it back before dinner.

It was actually the best looking vehicle out of the lot. The test drive was fine, them we took it straight to a mechanic. There was some medium sized issues but nothing egregious. I stopped at the bank for cash and we brought the car back. We told the sellers about the mechanical issues and said we were still interested. They knocked of the entire cost of repairs if we agreed to buy it on the spot.

I paid a few thousand in cash and had my papers within seconds.No financing, no down payment, no interest rate and no bullshit. I just bought it outright on the spot.

Our Subaru has been our daily driver for years now and it was a fantastic purchase. Obviously when you're dealing with stranger things is a chance they're going to try to rip you off but at a dealership, getting ripped off is a guarantee.

I love reading reviews for these used car lots. I'm convinced that 95% of them that exist are ran by conmen. As much as I hate dealerships, I'd much rather do business with one than these places.

That sales guy was an asshole. Did he really say that if someone wants to do an inspection they were not buying it? Wow.

Glad he called that dealer out on their shit maintenance, a battery and an oil change should be done fresh on any vehicle being sold. Don't care if it's a $7k hooptie or a $36k truck.

Nearly all used car lots (around here) buy their cars at auction. The auctions are mostly trucks and cars from the rust belt or Canada or other places where they use salt on the roads or other reasons that the cars turn into rust buckets. They can get them for so cheap. They probably paid $10k for that POS. Then people here assume it’s a trade in, something local. Also see the carfax and ask google if where it was owned is known for rust or other issues. That might save you time/cost on the pre-inspection.