Be Honest

Honest people are hard to come by.

Has any of you ever purchased a used car? No one who sells their used car is totally honest. If your honest to the ones you love but are dishonest to a stranger can you really call your self an honest person?

One day about two months ago, I was having a heart to heart with my boss. For those of you that don't know, I work at Cold Stone and have about two and a half years of experience at the Gilbert/Germann location. My boss is a 68 year old, ex marine who has lived a tough life but punched adversity in the face and rose up to provide a good living for his children. When he says something, people listen. After about two hours of us talking about business, life and women, I asked him "You know you could have done big things, you worked in the car industry for thirty years and was super successful, why didn't you open a car dealership?" He looked at me and shed some pretty dense wisdom, he said "I consider myself a pretty honest person and selling things to people is generally all about how dishonest you can be."

From what I have experienced so far, I find this to be pretty true.

"So has the car ever had any accidents?"
"Oh no, car is very good, no crash" (funny accent)
-Carfax report says its been in a head on collision-

People value their honesty less when it comes to selling their items.
Cars are a perfect example of this because of all of the different things that could go wrong with cars and the amount of money people have invested in them.

I'm currently in the market for a used vehicle and if any of you have been in my shoes you will testify that it is brutal. Everything is over priced, no one speaks english, and everything under ten thousand dollars has some serious issue you need to address.

Anyone have a quality used car their trying to get rid of?
Anyone have any tips for buying a used car?

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