How To Buy A Used Car
With A Low Ball Offer!

Click here if you want to start at the beginning of this section on buying used cars.

Once again, when you buy a used car, here is the hypothetical but realistic ad of the car we were looking at on a previous page:

Remember: This scenario is typical, but the price is hypothetical...

Later you'll probably discover something else that needs replacing so ask them if they will take $550 cash for it right now.

As you are making that offer, its important that you literally pull the $550 cash out of your pocket right in front of their face.

Its much easier to negotiate with them incrementally. This car started out at $850. You got them to accept $750 over the phone. So maybe you can get the car for $300 less than what they were asking.

Before you buy a used car - you should get a vehicle history report. This could reveal some details about this car, like:

• Odometer tampering.
• Was the car in a flood?
• Is it a "salvage" vehicle.
• Was it ever a fleet vehicle?
• Is it a California "gross polluter"?

Only a vehicle history report would reveal these potentially expensive details.

Alright, when you buy a used car, you need to wrap up this deal before some other schmuck comes along and swoops in on YOUR deal.

Its important to get the cash in the sellers hands right away.

You've driven all the way over to the sellers house and taken a test drive.

You've come all this way and want to wrap this deal up NOW but their phone keeps ringing with people calling about the same car! What the heck should you do to keep from losing out on this great deal?

NEXT: Lets finish this section on how to buy a used car by going over the paperwork.