# How do I negotiate?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-do-i-negotiate/26815>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [February 22, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-do-i-negotiate/26815 "2009-02-22T14:11:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![hoffmalr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bc8723/32.png) [@hoffmalr](https://community.cartalk.com/u/hoffmalr)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-do-i-negotiate/26815/21 "2009-03-10T03:27:38Z")

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Before buying my car locally, I went to a Mazda dealership near my parents’ house. I had no particularly place in mind to buy the car, so they were a possibility. I told them I wanted to test drive with my parents, and they told me no. If I wasn’t buying right then and there, they didn’t have a sales guy or a car to spare. It didn’t look that busy to me, but hey, I look young. Maybe they thought I was jerking them around? Too bad for them. I’ll certainly never buy a car from that dealer now.

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