Pardel
Bernie,#2Consumer Suggestion
Fri, December 12, 2008
This actually was not a rip-off. Believe me, I feel your pain as the same thing happened to my husband and me when we were first starting out and bought our first truck. The sales staff did exactly what they were suppose to do. It is your job as a comsummer to do the homework before making such an expensive purchase as an automobile. The 23,000.00 you currently owe is not just for the vehicle. You state you purchased all of the extras, so some of this amount (probably about half, $5000.00) is for all of these extras that would have been explained to you when you spoke with the financier. You also have tax, tag, and title that would have been added on. This is required by law and would have been several thousand dollars. Now, the minute you drove that new car off the car dealerships lot it became a 'used' vehicle and depreciated by approximately $5000.00. See where I am going here? That is what happens when you buy 'new'. Because you are young and have a child is no excuse to blame the car dealership for your in-experience. If you did not know how to buy the car you could have asked your parents for help or researched it on the internet.