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urinetrouble 
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| Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/2/12 at 7:49 pm)
What online resources do you utilize for used car shopping? What's the best site for finding cars locally? And is there something good for determining value?
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LSUGUMBO 
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/2/12 at 7:55 pm to urinetrouble)
Autotrader.com is my favorite site to use, but there's also cars.com. For a no haggle website, use carmax.com, but be aware that the prices are set a little higher (the cost of no haggle).
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matthew25 
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/2/12 at 8:52 pm to LSUGUMBO)
Warning! Use a trusted pay site! Friend just went off the trusted site at seller's insistence, and lost >$20,000.
The money went to a bank in eastern europe less than 2 hours after he made the deal.
No car, of course, and FBI says they can't help him.
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notiger1997
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/2/12 at 9:15 pm to matthew25)
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Warning! Use a trusted pay site! Friend just went off the trusted site at seller's insistence, and lost >$20,000.
Good god, what a dumb ass!!
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matthew25
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/2/12 at 10:21 pm to notiger1997)
According to the sherriff's office up here, they get more than one case a week like this.
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LSU Piston 
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/2/12 at 10:44 pm to matthew25)
Carmax.com
Find the closest CarMax location near you.
You're welcome.
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wegotdatwood 
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/3/12 at 12:21 am to matthew25)
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Warning! Use a trusted pay site! Friend just went off the trusted site at seller's insistence, and lost >$20,000.
The money went to a bank in eastern europe less than 2 hours after he made the deal.
No car, of course, and FBI says they can't help him.
Holy shite.
That would seriously put me in a depression. How could you recover from something like that?
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LSUGUMBO
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/3/12 at 6:36 am to matthew25)
This is why I will never purchase a car from anyone other than a dealer from a website like autotrader.
I would seriously contemplate jumping off a building if that happened to me.
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OTIS2
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/3/12 at 6:57 am to urinetrouble)
I recently bought a car I found on Autotrader.com from a Dallas dealer, Ecarone.com. Very satisfied?
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Will Cover 
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/3/12 at 7:36 am to urinetrouble)
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And is there something good for determining value?
If anyone is in the car business and can get their hands on the "black book," I'd love to get my hands on an outdated copy (1 + month or so).
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LNCHBOX
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/3/12 at 8:30 am to LSU Piston)
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Carmax.com
Find the closest CarMax location near you.
You're welcome.
If you don't want the best deal, this.
I just bought a 2005 Suburban Z71 for $4500 under retail. I found it on Autotrader. Only haggling I did was none of the BS fees dealers try to tack on.
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LNCHBOX
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/3/12 at 8:31 am to Will Cover)
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If anyone is in the car business and can get their hands on the "black book," I'd love to get my hands on an outdated copy (1 + month or so).
From my experience, NADA prices are very inline with the "black books." They aren't exact of course, but a good start for determining values.
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GaryMyMan
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/3/12 at 8:43 am to LNCHBOX)
With so many online resources these days I think "book value" as a concept is outdated, or at least much less valuable than it once was. You can create your own spreadsheet of asking prices by looking at cars.com, autotrader, eBay, etc. and compare nearly identical vehicles.
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GFunk
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/3/12 at 9:14 am to urinetrouble)
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urinetrouble
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What online resources do you utilize for used car shopping? What's the best site for finding cars locally? And is there something good for determining value?
I've bought two cars since 2007, and both were off of Craigslist. One of them ended up being a guy who lived two doors down from a friend of mine whose wedding I stood in as a groomsmen.
Brought them both to my mechanic & he gave them his seal of approval. Both of them were 10+ years old with 130K+ miles on them.
(They were both Toyota 4Runners)
I spent less than $11K combined on both of them. I had some DB total one two years ago with 204K miles on it. The one I have now I've put 30K miles on or so and will drive the wheels off it as well.
So I'd say Craig's List.
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IMJ127
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/4/12 at 1:16 pm to matthew25)
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Warning! Use a trusted pay site! Friend just went off the trusted site at seller's insistence, and lost >$20,000.
The money went to a bank in eastern europe less than 2 hours after he made the deal.
No car, of course, and FBI says they can't help him.
Your friend isn't very smart, is he?
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matthew25
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/5/12 at 12:25 am to IMJ127)
Doctorate degree. But he just got even more education in life skills.
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Will Cover
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/5/12 at 8:52 am to LNCHBOX)
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From my experience, NADA prices are very inline with the "black books." They aren't exact of course, but a good start for determining values.
If I recall correctly, my experience was entirely different the last time I was car shopping (NADA vs. Black Book).
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nhassl1
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| re: Used car shopping - online resources? (Posted on 7/5/12 at 9:10 am to urinetrouble)
texasdirectauto.com
They have poor customer service, but they have good prices. It's normally worth the drive to Houston.
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