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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 08:12 PM
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2. My first new purchase was a F250 HD, Diesel. That was a serious work pick-up.
I loathe calling them "trucks", but this was pretty much a truck.

Rubber floor mats, vinyl seats, you could take a hose to it inside and out.

The only options that weren't about serious work were the clearance lights.

That was a truck. CT dealer really wanted to unload it toward the end of the year, September 1986.

I got them down to $15,500.

As to your question, dealers try to make money on all ends of the transaction.

Common wisdom (under ordinary economic circumstances) seems to be that it's always best for the consumer to sell privately and not get involved in the trade-in deal with the new car dealer.

I would figure out which of these trucks you want, do your homework and insist on cost plus a couple hundred, and then only after you've come to that price make them give you wholesale on your trade-in.

I think that's reasonable.
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