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How did they handle your trade? Are you local?
Almost 20% off MSRP seems like a good deal!
It's in the paperwork they send you. You take pictures, and tell them about the vehicle, and the offer you their trade in value. As long as your description is accurate, you get that trade.
I'm in Ohio. They asked for a pic of the truck and a pic of the vin tag. I could have taken truck to the local manheim auction for them but I could not be without a truck. I paid a fee and they had a guy drive my new one from Louisiana to me and picked up my trade. AND they beat the trade offer of local dealers and carvana , vroom, etc.
That is interesting- I considered Mark Dodge on a previous purchase but didn't want to travel down or deal with a local trade. Hadn't considered shipping the new truck and the trade both or even thought of it as an option! When you say theybjaf a guy drive it I assume you mean a shipper on a truck or did they actually have a guy drive the trucks?
Sure can!
Im with you on that. My 14 Laramie has been great to me and i sometimes wonder if im making a mistake, especially when i read about all the issues people have with the new ones. Also ask myself if the new truck is really worth 4 times what my 14 is worthMy new one has been shipped. Plan on trading my 2020 in (a little sad), driving it down to MD from DFW, and driving my new one home. Think it is going to work out great!
It isn’t.Also ask myself if the new truck is really worth 4 times what my 14 is worth
Yep. Reward yourself. Sometimes it's ok to spend money on things that make us happy, instead of just for financial sense.
I agree that vehicles are generally not a good investment in the traditional sense (i.e. they don't generally appreciate in value) but in some cases a new vehicle can make financial sense in the right situation and considering other factors. I live in an urban area with work, kids school and most everything I regularly access within 10 miles of home so I drive very few miles compared to an average person - as such when comparing lease/loan balance to market value my vehicles have always had positive equity for the first 2-3 years of ownership that offset the payments made and allowed me to have substantial trade equity on upgrades. This factor combined with the lack of maint costs, full warranty for repairs and low insurance costs based on anti-theft and safety features made for an attractive financial picture. In addition for me there is the less tangible factor that the newer vehicles are measurably safer for my family which holds a perceived and potentially real value in the case of an accident. In the end these factors combine with the desire to treat myself and allow me to justify the ever increasing costs!
Yep. Reward yourself. Sometimes it's ok to spend money on things that make us happy, instead of just for financial sense.
In my case, I don't enjoy working on my daily driver and I don't have much spare time and what I do have is precious. My old truck has almost 400k miles on it and it was becoming too time intensive to keep it on the road. Every time something would go down it would consume one of my rare free days to fix it, whether it was taking it to a shop or fixing it myself. Time is more valuable than money, so I bought what I hope requires very little down time. Now, I pay a little more every month in a payment but I'm able to have a weekend to do OTHER stuff each month, like working on my old Challenger or the old Barracuda I'm likely going to pick up in the next couple of weeks, or load and shoot ridiculous amounts of ammo or go on an extra elk hunt each year.
