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Buyer's market incoming!

Post by matthew1 »

I've started to hear car dealer ads on the radio again. Inflation report for August is very bad, and more interest rate hikes are coming soon.

If I dealt cars I'd have dumped my inventory a couple months ago. The car value cycle is coming down, like the laws of economics dictate, and history shows is normal and expected.
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I'm bummed that I just bought a used car. I had been looking for that exact year, make, model, color, options for over a year and a half, gradually watching prices rise. The one I was waiting for appeared, I waited a few weeks for its price to drop a tad, I tried to negotiate hard to get the price even lower. And yet, I still overpaid. But I had been waiting so long and this exact vehicle was so hard to find that I had to buy it.

I'm not excited about selling the two hoopties that I have. Should have moved one a year ago.
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