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Kaisen, thanks for the offer. I'm actually in Pensacola Florida at my mother's right now or I'd take you up on that. If we do this, then I need to do it tomorrow. I'm helping my mother buy the car and then she's going to give me her Ford Explorer which I'll drive back to Texas Friday. That's good to know about auction prices. Also, this is at the dealer that originally sold the car, so I'm guessing, that it was a trade-in, but I don't know that for sure.

I've read that dealers try to make up the bottom line in financing, or if you negotiate the payment/financing, then they make their money on the bottom line. My plan is to negotiate the bottom line without telling them that we are just going to pay outright. Also, if we don't do the deal tomorrow, then it's not going to get done at all.