Unlucky Car

I went with my Dad to negotiate for a brand new Honda Accord last weekend. I realized that it is about a million times easier to negotiate for someone else’s car than to negotiate for your own car. I am guessing that is why arbitration experts and professional negotiators get paid so much.

I wasn’t able to get to a good enough price for my father and we ended up leaving the dealership disappointed. They did throw quite a few car salesman tricks at us, such as making FINAL offers in red marker, using their own intermediary to negotiate, etc. If you’ve never read it, you must go read Confessions of a Car Salesman at Edmunds. It is fascinating reading.

And while I am thinking about Honda Accords, here is a picture of an unfortunate one I saw in Bentonville. The owner didn’t even have time to get new tags before it was rear ended! Aaron Gresko and Jared Hudson, my coworkers, get the credit for spotting this in the parking lot. I’m sure someone can make an interesting slide out of it for their client. Please let me know if you think of any good captions.

Update: Jared uploaded a detailed picture of the car here.