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I’ve been on the bus a lot over the past half a year, so a week ago I finally made the decision to get a car. Though not the worst thing to have to take the bus, I hate the lack of freedom that comes with your own car. I wanted to be able to go wherever I want whenever I want. The problem was that I did not have that much money to spend. I decided that my options were either going to a car dealership, police car auctions, public car auctions, or government car auctions.

I’m sure going to an auction would have been cheaper, but it would have felt odd to know that the vehicles had been taken by the police or the government for some reason or other. It’s pretty likely that those vehicles were used in criminal activity such as a drive by shooting. If you owned a car like that, you might liken it to living in a house where you’re aware that someone has died. I didn’t want to look into auctions because it would probably not be good. I will go to the dealership instead. I do not like to Bargain (haggle) in my whole experience (Career).

I never did get how come there’s a ’sticker price’ on the auto, which the salesperson states no one actually pays. After deciding on the car, you need to haggle about it, and I never can get past how odd this process is. You do not really get to negotiate the price you are going to pay with much else that you buy. What will be gained by the car dealersips by running their business like this? How come everybody doesn’t pay the exact same thing?

Has it always been this way, or was there a certain point where car dealerships realized they could make more money by having every sale become a negotiation with the customer? I’m pretty sure they’re really just trying to take advantage of those who don’t have negotiation skills. As they say, everything in life is a negotiation. I guess even if I did decide to go to police car auctions, public car auctions, or government auto auctions, I would have had to bid against other people anyway.

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