In response to Diabloo's "New Vehicle"

The Trailblazer's sticker price was $16995. I told them I'd think about it. Either way they insisted I submit a pre-application for the loan and I did it just to humor them because at the time I was sure they wouldn't be able to get me approved due to my credit problems.

They, were able to get me approved alright but with an interest rate of 13%! So I declined... I told them I had found a different blazer that I was interested in anyway and was way cheaper ($13995). It didn't have the same features but it was $3k cheaper so that's why I would be interested. I was able to get a lower interest rate on my car loan (9.05%) which was lower than any other places I could find because of my credit issues. So I was thinking about going with the lower priced vehicle when I then got a call from the manager telling me to come in and talk to him and negotiate the price. I figured... sure... why not. So I went in and I test drove the blazer (again) and I went into his office and we chatted. He kept trying to tell me all the stuff that they actually did to used vehicles before they sold them. Such as their 115 point inspection... so on and so forth. I agreed that it was a good thing they did that and he saw that I really wasn't leaning towards wanting to buy it at that point. So he knocked the price down to $14495. After that I told him I'd think about it. So the next day I called him up and said that if he would knock the extra $500 off the price (which would match the price of the other truck) then I would be there with a check the next day. He said he would call me back. A few min. later I got a call back from another manager who said that they would knock off that extra $500 and I said it was a done deal. So over all I thought I did a good job for my first time trying to haggle a price down. $3000 off from the sticker price was good enough for me...