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Originally Posted by eplurubus
Pepe, it seems to me if you are traveling halfway across the country to buy a truck, you may want to calculate your traveling expenses, and then add them to your optimal purchase price, and just stay in CA and buy something there for that amount. Does this make sense?
For example, if you want a purchase price of $30,000, but traveling to Pennsylvania and back will be ??$2,000?? plus the cost of your time to do it at ??$15/hr?? or maybe ??$1.50/mile??, then add all that to the thirty grand and you have your bid for a truck in CA, which is a heck of alot closer to home.
Although, if you are saving many thousands of dollars buy traveling, then it certainly seems worth it. Good luck.
Yes thks, yeah I've calculated it all out and if I get a good price then its been worth it easy, a good price being 10k-15k less then here.
Been to lots of dealers here, and they just wont come down and some of the prices are to high to begin with, my biggest expense will be the feul to come home, wish there was a good auction closer, but the only close one I can find is an RB in Sacramento, and there selection is lame. RB is a good auction for day cabs I've noticed but Adesa has them beat hands down on sleeper trucks. Although the RB auction in Dallas looked good, but thats well over now. I am only spending 200. to greyhound for the trip(some people say fly...nope just looking to save $), time I got plenty of since I am not working a steady job now, and just looking to cut costs. Hmmm esxpensises look like the ticket 200, motel one night 40 and the rental car probably 200-400 one day....another hmmm 1,000 for feul home.
Yeah I can't get crap here for 30,000........I would have thought so but they wouldnt take an offer of 37,000 on a 2002 Pete and wouldnt take 32,000 on a 2002 columbian, no dealer will go down much here so auction really seemes the way to go since its the bottom line is my emphisis.
Now the max I will spend is 30k....hoping to actually do better then I am saving over 10k. Hmmm it would come to 2000 if I go to both the coastal auction (Charloette N.C.) and the Adesa auction in Mercer Pa good selection there too) but i am looking to save a minimum of 8k (hope to do better, but my first auction n dont know), and my times not a factor, that i got plenty of :-p
By far the hardest think to work out is payment, coastal wants payment that day, so any overnight is out, payment in hand only. So Going to take bank notes, in various denominations, and there is an Citi bank atm so I have acess to another 5 k to do the smller denomination....say I bid 21k and win....got two drafts for 10k then pay 1k bills.