[wolfspider]

Thank You! I've been waiting for a golden opportunity myself for years and even now nothing seems that different. I've been cycling through one clunker after another and each time I just buy something of equal or slightly more than equal value waiting to catch a break. It's been so long now I am highly skeptical of anything coming close to news of that magic moment. If the average consumer wants to pay 500$ a month for a questionable vehicle what can an informed consumer really hope to do? I went to a dealer hoping to make a deal as if I could get the better of them and found something really rare- someone who was honest to a fault. I urged the salesman to sort of open up the books and described the vehicle I wanted: inline 6 or turbo 4 or V6 or V8 with RWD in a sedan. He sighed and said "We really don't sell to people like you, look you see all of these people here? They wouldn't even know what your talking about and they'll agree to just about anything. The cars you see on our page here priced with the even numbers...that's not the real price. The ones that end with a 7 we don't actually have. Those with the 5 in the middle- we have those but look at the interest you wouldn't get that one would you? They all come out to about that much and that's why your probably going to leave- right?" I gave my sincerest thanks and walked out of there like it was an episode of the twilight zone wondering if I was still here on earth. I look at auctions all the time too and I have never seen such cooperation to hide the good used cars as today's car market.