Monday, May 10, 2010

I bought a car!

After months of melting in the Bombay sun, I finally sucked it up and bought a car. Except calling it a car might be an exaggeration--it's a Hyundai i10 (kidding, kidding, people with Hyundais/love for Hyundais relax...). Check it out:



Obviously, the important part of buying a car is having a fool-proof strategy of negotiation on price. I went with two other friends to buy the car. Our 4-step strategy was as follows:

1) We're here to buy a car on loan--give us your best price
2) Actually, we're here to buy 2 cars--now give us your best price.
3) Psych, we're actually here to buy 3 cars--seriously, give us your best price.
4) Guess what, we're gonna pay cash. Now give us your mom's best price.

Fortunately, one of my friends was an expert negotiator and we were able to get a decent price because our "fool-proof" strategy failed utterly (May be it was the mom joke on Mother's day?)

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