Anyone ever use the firm "car buying service"? Worth it?

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Apparently buying a car is a bad decision I just was told

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Buy used

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It's probably not that bad if you are prepared to buy a brand new car, but as everyone will tell you on here that's not the smart $.

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New car is a waste of money

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Oh it's only for new cars?

There are options for new and CPO. I used it to buy a Honda Pilot this year. I had intended to buy CPO but due to model changes actually got a better deal on new. We keep vehicles 10-12 years, and new actually isn't so terrible if you hold that long.

If you use the service, be sure to call the dealer and ask for the "drive-away" price. (They will push back but insist). I didn't, and when I got there they'd added $1800 for dealer prep. Threatened to walk and they mostly backed down, but I still paid $300 more than they quoted. It was ~2% margin for dealer so pretty solid deal.

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