bought 2011 nismo on impulse, wants to exchange

zmyride · 03-15-2011, 05:52 PM

Liar Liar.

Nobody buys a $40K car on impulse, unless you have too much cash laying around under your mattress. But if you have too much cash, why would you care about a $5K loss for a trade in?

FL 4Motion · 03-15-2011, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by zmyride

Liar Liar.

Nobody buys a $40K car on impulse, unless you have too much cash laying around under your mattress. But if you have too much cash, why would you care about a $5K loss for a trade in?

/\ I agree. Either the OP is pulling our leg, or he is mentally challenged and shouldn't be allowed to make large purchases w/o a co-signer.

Red__Zed · 03-15-2011, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by zmyride

Liar Liar.

Nobody buys a $40K car on impulse, unless you have too much cash laying around under your mattress. But if you have too much cash, why would you care about a $5K loss for a trade in?

lots of people buy cars on impulse. Most dealer strategies are based around getting people to buy on impulse.

zmyride · 03-15-2011, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Red__Zed

lots of people buy cars on impulse. Most dealer strategies are based around getting people to buy on impulse.

for a $14K toyota corolla, YES. not a $40k bonafide sports car with a 2-seater.

nobodys gonna walk into a Lamborghini dealership and buy a half a million$ lambo on impulse. If you do, why would you care if you lose ten of thousands of dollars for a tradein?

b1adesofcha0s · 03-15-2011, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by zmyride

for a $14K toyota corolla, YES. not a $40k bonafide sports car with a 2-seater.

nobodys gonna walk into a Lamborghini dealership and buy a half a million$ lambo on impulse. If you do, why would you care if you lose ten of thousands of dollars for a tradein?

People do worse things with their money than impulse buying a $40k sports car. Like buying a house worth $100k's that they know they can't afford and there by crashing the global economy.

Red__Zed · 03-15-2011, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by zmyride

for a $14K toyota corolla, YES. not a $40k bonafide sports car with a 2-seater.

nobodys gonna walk into a Lamborghini dealership and buy a half a million$ lambo on impulse. If you do, why would you care if you lose ten of thousands of dollars for a tradein?

I'd be willing to be the majority of Z sales are impulse purchases. People are actually less likely to impulse buy a corolla, because there is not an emotional connection, it is a logical purchase.

birdmanx1 · 03-16-2011, 06:21 AM

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Originally Posted by zmyride

Liar Liar.

Nobody buys a $40K car on impulse, unless you have too much cash laying around under your mattress. But if you have too much cash, why would you care about a $5K loss for a trade in?

Not sure how the bashing of a fellow forum member helps with the issue presented in the thread.

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Originally Posted by Andyy

I had it for 2 weeks. The dealer was like since it's used the difference will be 5 k. I'm like WTF. The reason for the trade:
Chage color to silver- less of a cop magnet then red
Automatic - I can eat and drive at the same time
Nismo has too much road noise.

Andy, as many members suggested, you could try to do a private trade to avoid further money loss - this may take a while; the tricky part will be to get the trade where both parties are satisfied with things like mileage, upkeep... Another option you might find worthy is to keep the car and slightly modify it to fit your needs.
** Road noise: easy/cheap fix is to dynamat the trunk & door maybe floor if you feel like. Road Noise Thread
** rough ride: Get some "value" springs that will give the car a smoother ride. Thread 1 Thread 2
** Color issue: the car will get noticed on the road no matter what color it is

...get a radar detector maybe??

I want a Z · 03-16-2011, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by zmyride

Liar Liar.

Nobody buys a $40K car on impulse, unless you have too much cash laying around under your mattress. But if you have too much cash, why would you care about a $5K loss for a trade in?

Oh how wrong you are, there are plenty of irrational people out there

zmyride · 03-16-2011, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Red__Zed

I'd be willing to be the majority of Z sales are impulse purchases. People are actually less likely to impulse buy a corolla, because there is not an emotional connection, it is a logical purchase.

He's been wanting a Z for a long time. He bought it but regretted he bought the wrong model/type. He didn't regret he bought the wrong car. He knew what he wanted, he just didn't know the difference between model types. I regretted I didn't upgrade to the Touring. That doesn't mean i bought the car in impulse. its two difeerent things.

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Originally Posted by b1adesofcha0s

People do worse things with their money than impulse buying a $40k sports car. Like buying a house worth $100k's that they know they can't afford and there by crashing the global economy.

Uh, it's called poor financial planning, not buying on impulse. Nobodys gonna wake up and decide i'm going to buy a house today and actually purchase it in the same day. it takes months to buy a house and you have to be financially qualified. its not impulse buying. you have months to think about it.

Red__Zed · 03-16-2011, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by zmyride

He's been wanting a Z for a long time. He bought it but regretted he bought the wrong model/type. He didn't regret he bought the wrong car. He knew what he wanted, he just didn't know the difference between model types. I regretted I didn't upgrade to the Touring. That doesn't mean i bought the car in impulse. its two difeerent things.

Uh, it's called poor financial planning, not buying on impulse. Nobodys gonna wake up and decide i'm going to buy a house today and actually purchase it in the same day. it takes months to buy a house and you have to be financially qualified. its not impulse buying. you have months to think about it.

My brother just impulse bought a house. 4 days from offer to closing.

b1adesofcha0s · 03-16-2011, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by zmyride

Uh, it's called poor financial planning, not buying on impulse. Nobodys gonna wake up and decide i'm going to buy a house today and actually purchase it in the same day. it takes months to buy a house and you have to be financially qualified. its not impulse buying. you have months to think about it.

I didn't say that people were impulse buying houses. I agree that it's poor financial planning, just like impulse buying a $40k car is poor financial planning (more like no financial planning lol). I was just saying that buying a house that you know you can't afford is a more stupid thing to do with your money than to impulse buy a car that you can at least afford to buy.

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zmyride Track Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: SF Bay Area Posts: 631 Drives: 10 Black Sports 7AT Rep Power: 18	Liar Liar. Nobody buys a $40K car on impulse, unless you have too much cash laying around under your mattress. But if you have too much cash, why would you care about a $5K loss for a trade in?