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  dorpus, 11 Apr 2005 @ 6:04pm

  
  

  Privilege of Trying

  Unless you know exactly what you want in advance, retail stores still have their uses for allowing you to test the item before buying it. I bought a pair of shoes at the mall, where the price was competitive with the internet, and they seemed afraid of the net. The mall was necessary to determine what size fits me for that brand. I bought a pair from them, and then bought another pair of similar shoes from the same maker over the net, once I knew that size 11 works.
  
  
  

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    Tim, 12 Apr 2005 @ 2:04am

    
    

    Re: Privilege of Trying

    Yes, one needs a test-drive, but one can sure research the exact make / model you want online first. (It's not unknown for me to know more than the local sales-droid anyway by the time I come to sit in a particular car.)
    
    Also there's the idea of price-matching: I've done this twice with buying cameras, gone to shop where I know they have one to take home immediately, and requested they match a reputable online seller's price (just take a printout of the webpage with you). Could be fun trying to do that with cars...

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      Mike (profile), 12 Apr 2005 @ 2:14am

      
      

      Re: Privilege of Trying

      Could be fun trying to do that with cars...
      
      I can confirm, this works with cars.

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        thecaptain, 12 Apr 2005 @ 4:56am

        
        

        Re: Privilege of Trying

        I can also confirm this works with cars.
        
        We recently bought a new car. Process was basically my wife and I sitting down to figure out what we needed and exactly what we could afford.
        
        We then looked at different models and options online got a few quotes with the one we found ideal.
        
        This took about 90 mins on a sunday. Monday night we went to a local dealership, outlined what we had done and found and sure enough we got exactly what we asked for, for the price we found.
        
        The haggling was at a minimum because once the salesman quoted a price that was slightly higher we flatly said we knew what we could afford and it was what we had looked for, anything else and we'd pass and go to the next dealer. The second offer was what we wanted.
        
        Simple.

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  Susan Canepari, 10 Jan 2007 @ 2:25am

  
  

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  Susan Canepari, 10 Jan 2007 @ 2:25am

  
  

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