Just wanted to share a great presentation Rob Gruhl, a co-worker of mine, recently did for Ignite Seattle. He had 20 slides (set on a 15 second timer) to describe how to buy a car and not get screwed. It's a great talk and funny as hell - check it out!
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Awesome. I am in the process right now. Most of that stuff is common sense, but buying a car means one has most likely thrown their senses out the window. With my last car, I fell for all the tricks ;) Never again.
Very cool vid, nice job Rob. I have always learned bits and pieces of this each time that I bought a car, and I know did 'better' the last time, but still didn't get the deal I could have with these tips! I'll have to check Ignite out sometime soon.
Hell isn't funny.
That was great.
Great talk.
Most people don't have the stamina for this type of car buying but I can't deny that it will save you money. I'm getting ready to buy a new car within the next year and really really gonna try to follow this advice. I think one of the biggest problems is that people hate the car buying experience so much they just want to get it over and will take bad deals to just be done with it.
very enlightening. I will never buy a new car though. used hondas have treated me well.
Honda's rock... one of my favorite cars was an '89 Prelude (manual). Hate to say it, but it'll take a lot to get me to ever consider buying an American car in the future. I keep trying to like them, but the quality just isn't there. I think I'm stuck in German-car land now. Oh well.
Really fun talk format. You submit 20 powerpoint slides and they put them on an automated timer - it's a runaway train talk. =) The breadth of talks was great and most were really well done. The ones that weren't, well, its only 5 minutes. I think there are 'ignite' events springing up around, highly recommend catching one if you can.