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GM's Thread About Everything/GM's Thread About Nothing (10 Viewers)

shuke said:
SInce you brought it up, can we discuss this?  All I ever see are photos of restaurant signs.  @Osaurus are you a food critic?  Fast food addict?  Someone with a food sign fetish?
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Lol.  I use an app called Swarm (a subsidiary of Foursquare) to check in at places.  That’s the bulk of my tweets.  The others are random hilarity I come across.

ETA: I really don’t eat a lot of fast food, just check in at them bc they’re nearby.

 
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shuke said:
Explain this to me like I'm Frosty.
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What's there to explain? 

He uses an app that nobody else has heard of to check in to restaurants that he doesn't go to in order to win a weekly competition of people checking into places that they aren't at and a byproduct of all that competing to pretend to be at places he isn't is a bunch of social media posts.

 
Osaurus said:
It’s a weekly competition between me and 57 other folks on Swarm.  Whoever checks in at the most places and some places consecutively, gets the most points and wins.  That’s it. 
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Swarm used to be (or replaced) Foursquare right? Man, I used to be mayor of my parking garage at work. Those were heady days.

 
I've never had this happen before (a total), so how is that supposed to work?  I've been told to show up with the title on Monday and they'll give me a check for $xxxxx.  Is that just it?  Do I have the opportunity to ask for $xxxxx + $1?  I don't know how it works.  Do I just take that amount?  Frankly it seems quite reasonable.

 
krista4 said:
I've never had this happen before (a total), so how is that supposed to work?  I've been told to show up with the title on Monday and they'll give me a check for $xxxxx.  Is that just it?  Do I have the opportunity to ask for $xxxxx + $1?  I don't know how it works.  Do I just take that amount?  Frankly it seems quite reasonable.
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Yes, that's it.  They buy it from you.

 
krista4 said:
No negotiation?  If I were getting rid of the car, I'd have the opportunity to make a car salesperson cry or something.
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What leverage do you have in this negotiation? You have a car that will cost more to fix than what it's worth.  Take the money and run.

 
krista4 said:
I've never had this happen before (a total), so how is that supposed to work?  I've been told to show up with the title on Monday and they'll give me a check for $xxxxx.  Is that just it?  Do I have the opportunity to ask for $xxxxx + $1?  I don't know how it works.  Do I just take that amount?  Frankly it seems quite reasonable.
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Whoah, just saw this.  Don’t go until you talk to someone who knows what’s going on with property damage law in your state.  Or PM me. 

 
krista4 said:
No negotiation?  If I were getting rid of the car, I'd have the opportunity to make a car salesperson cry or something.
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In some states you have the leverage of threatening them to fix it. You may not "just have to settle for what they give you".
Find out how far you can go. The price of your car plus sales tax is a good place to end up.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
What the hell is that?
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It's pure garbage, is what it is.  Subarus are enormously popular here, so they think they can just add a $3k fee on top because they're in high demand.  This is where I bought the last one, and they didn't do that at the time.  Sure, they're popular, but they have a whole bunch sitting right there on the lot.  And there are a thousand Subaru dealers here.  We'll see how it all shakes out.

 
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krista4 said:
Went to look at new cars today and see the local Subaru dealer is now charging a $2,995 "NW market adjustment fee."  Garbage.
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I just bumped a thread you should read. Basically you do not go to the dealer until it's time to
sign the paperwork and drive the car home. You make the dealers compete for your business.

 

 
I agree about making the dealers compete for your business.  The way I determine where to buy a car is to get a group of friends and have each one of us go to a different car dealership.  Take a test drive of the different cars I am considering (along with the salesperson).  We meet up in a field or an empty parking lot and park the cars around each other to form an inescapable ring.  Then I put all of the salespeople together in the middle with some crude gladiator style weapons and tell them that I will buy a car from whoever lives.

 
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nightmare said:
I just bumped a thread you should read. Basically you do not go to the dealer until it's time to
sign the paperwork and drive the car home. You make the dealers compete for your business.

 
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Thanks.  I will read the thread.   :thumbup:   I do know a little about negotiation. ;)   Went to the dealer because I'm deciding between getting the same car that was totaled and a different one, and I wanted to sit in the latter one and see how it felt (no test drive).

 
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