[fintstone]

Just a different way of looking at things. Once when we were talking about buying new cars for below the sticker price with my brother and his wife. I related how we went down to the dealer in my primered-up '65 Mustang with the actual cash in my pockets to buy the car I wanted. My wife and I apparently looked so poor that the salesman insulted us and practically threw us off the lot..told me that he couldn't take my old clunker as a trade (I had no intent to trade). On the way home, we happened to stop at a new subdivision and the cash became the down payment for our first house. It is a paid-off rental over thirty years later.

My brother's wife the said that when he went shopping for their new car. The salesman asks, "well, how much can you afford to spend". He said..."I am a wealthy lawyer and can afford any car on this lot". He paid almost 50% over the sticker after be salesman convince him that all popular cars have a "premium" over the suggested retail,