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  • Wally

    Aug. 14, 2008 8:36 a.m. Wally SuperDork

    http://www.nypost.com/news/weirdbuttrue/weirdbuttrue.htm?CMP=EMC-email_edition&...

    If this guy has to scrimp this hard to buy a truck, how will he ever pay for the gas?

    A frugal, bank-wary Cincinnati man plunked down $8,000 in coins for a $16,000 Chevrolet Silverado. It took employees at the dealership 90 minutes to count the change James Jones had stashed in 16 coffee cans.

    He and his wife did relent and pay the rest with a check.

  • JFX001

    Aug. 14, 2008 8:52 a.m. JFX001 HalfDork

    CoinStar is your friend....

  • Ian F

    Aug. 14, 2008 10:22 a.m. Ian F Reader

    ..except the Coinstar's not free and their take of $8,000 would be no small chunk of... change...

  • jrw1621

    Aug. 14, 2008 10:25 a.m. jrw1621 Reader

    Typical Coinstar charge is like 9 to 10% or roughly $800. I would not pay it.

  • SoloSonett

    Aug. 14, 2008 10:31 a.m. SoloSonett New Reader

    One would think he would learn,

    after his old one ran him down?

    Maybe it's time to haul all the change to a Toyota dealer?

  • 914Driver

    Aug. 14, 2008 11:15 a.m. 914Driver HalfDork

    Maybe he was pissed at the Stealership.

    There was a cranky woman that ran a snack bar at work, MISERABLE! I won't regale you with stories here, but because of it, we adopted "Penny Wednesday". Everything was paid for with pennies.

  • ignorant

    Aug. 14, 2008 11:19 a.m. ignorant SuperDork

    coinstars will not charge you the % if you take your cash in the form of a Starbucks gift card..

    MMmmmmm froooofooie coffee.

  • DILYSI Dave

    Aug. 14, 2008 11:31 a.m. DILYSI Dave SuperDork

    I saw 2 dealership commercials this morning, one Ford and one Dodge, offing 1/2 off od MSRP on their full size trucks.

    $14K for a nicely equipped F150 Crew Cab. DAMN!

  • Aug. 14, 2008 12:24 p.m. spitfirebill HalfDork

    DILYSI Dave wrote:

    I saw 2 dealership commercials this morning, one Ford and one Dodge, offing 1/2 off od MSRP on their full size trucks.

    $14K for a nicely equipped F150 Crew Cab. DAMN!

    I've seen that too. I wondered what the catch was.

    Close by dealer and a client of ours has Full size Dodge pickem up trucks (I hate that term) for under $10,000.

  • racerdave600

    Aug. 14, 2008 12:42 p.m. racerdave600 Reader

    The catch is that they have them by the lots full. They're trying to give them away to make room for something that sells. And it costs most dealers floor plan fees to keep them anyway, so I imagine they're cutting their losses with both sides taking a hit; dealerships and manufacturer.

    Even our Toyota dealer has lines of Tundras unsold.

  • Osterkraut

    Aug. 14, 2008 1:18 p.m. Osterkraut Reader

    ignorant wrote:

    coinstars will not charge you the % if you take your cash in the form of a Starbucks gift card..

    MMmmmmm froooofooie coffee.

    We hipsters lap that E36 M3 up

  • John Brown

    Aug. 14, 2008 2:04 p.m. John Brown SuperDork

    Dude that ain't your hip, that is a roll...

  • atlantamx3

    Aug. 14, 2008 6:06 p.m. atlantamx3 Dork

    Which dealership? I have a buddy looking for a new truck...

  • DILYSI Dave

    Aug. 14, 2008 6:29 p.m. DILYSI Dave SuperDork

    atlantamx3 wrote:

    Which dealership? I have a buddy looking for a new truck...

    Gwinnett Place Ford and Palmer Dodge had 1/2 price advertisements back to back.

    Being the cheap bastard I am, if they are advertising 50% of MSRP, I'd have to offer them 40% just on principle.

 
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