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Vending machines they have in Perth.

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Thought I'd share this with you guys. Yeah tl;dr, but still.

Went out with 29 year old second daughter to look at cars today. She had a company car for about four years before losing her last job (and getting a better job, but sans car).

She's been driving my wife's car for about the past month or so to get to her new job. There have been times recently when I got home late from work to see the wife alone (apart from the dog) looking forlorn at being unable to even go down the shop. This was a worry as she is almost always relentlessly happy and optimistic.

So my daughter's loan came through, and she asked me to help her rather than her boyfriend, who a bit shy (as an aside, I don't think that the current generation is any good at bargaining, and that car dealers rub their hands when they see them).

So off to get a second hand Toyota RAV4.

The car she saw advertised was petrol and with 40,000 km on the clock, advertised at $29900. She drove it, but wasn't sure she liked the colour. The sales guy then said there was a turbo diesel model (much more expensive when new) in the colour she wanted. 30k on the clock, with much better extras, like an inbuilt satnav. Advertised price was $35,990. way above budget.

So Blinky goes into action. I told him that the price was ridiculous, and that my daughter had only $30k (not quite true....in fact not true at all). He laughed and said we could't do business. "Okay" I said "what is your best price?". After a phone call and a bit of mumbling he said "$33,880". I did my best incredulous stare and said "$31,000, and we need an answer as we have other dealers to see (we didn't)". Without boring you with the whole bit of theatre, his final offer was $32,500.

I said "$32,250". He walked away and said sorry. This is the first time I've seen a car dealer do this (I've negotiated about 10 cars for my seven kids). I said to him "You want us to walk over $250?", and he said "Sorry".

So we went back to my car and tried on my iPad to find the same car at a similar price. Unsuccessfully.

So we went back in and accepted the $32,500 price. I think it was a pretty good deal.

But more than that, it was a wonderful team Blinky effort. On the way back home, we stopped and had lunch at a pub. As part of wide ranging discussions, she told me that all the kids considered themselves lucky to have the upbringing they had. Life is well and truly worthwhile.
 
Blinky... Sat Nav is cough.... Should have said right $32,500 on the altitude black card no fees.... Now that would have been a win!
What was the colour?
 
PLANT said:
Blinky... Sat Nav is cough.... Should have said right $32,500 on the altitude black card no fees.... Now that would have been a win!
What was the colour?
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Fair point. She wanted gun metal grey, but the advertised car (which looked grey on the ad) was pitch black. Not so good as we live on an unmade road.

Neither I or she have points-laden credit cards. Incredibly, she's paying the balance with a bank cheque! These things exist?
 
My flight on Friday was cancelled and I was moved to a later (then delayed) service, for a total delay about 2 hours.

My flight today is currently 5 hours late and may not leave at all. I have resigned to the fact that I will misconnect to SIN, so am working out which offices in Australia have available VC units and of these, which I can get to in time for meetings tomorrow morning.

Ugh... Don't we all love irrops.


John K - Can you please stop following me now? :p
 
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