https://www.wisebread.com/taxonomy/term/6142/all en-US https://www.wisebread.com/best-money-tips-get-a-great-deal-at-a-car-dealership <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-blog-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/best-money-tips-get-a-great-deal-at-a-car-dealership" class="imagecache imagecache-250w imagecache-linked imagecache-250w_linked"><img src="https://www.wisebread.com/files/fruganomics/imagecache/250w/blog-images/626426584_1bcf0a4722_z-1.jpg" alt="Get a Great Deal at a Car Dealership" title="Get a Great Deal at a Car Dealership" class="imagecache imagecache-250w" width="250" height="140" /></a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Welcome to Wise Bread's <a href="http://www.wisebread.com/topic/best-money-tips">Best Money Tips</a> Roundup! Today we found some great articles on getting a great deal at a car dealership, no-cost ways to spend your birthday, and how to save money on food.</p> <h2>Top 5 Articles</h2> <p><a href="http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/tips-great-deal-car-dealership.html">Tips for Getting a Great Deal at a Car Dealership</a> &mdash; Get a great deal at a car dealership by getting pre-approved for a loan. [Bargaineering]</p> <p><a href="http://genxfinance.com/five-no-cost-ways-to-spend-your-birthday/">5 No-Cost Ways to Spend Your Birthday</a> &mdash; Don't spend a dime on your birthday! Have a great time by attending a free concert in the park. [Generation X Finance]</p> <p><a href="http://www.cashthechecks.com/saving-ideas/how-to-save-money-on-food.html">How To Save Money On Food</a> &mdash; Save money on food by eating in instead of going out. [Cash The Checks]</p> <p><a href="http://www.quizzle.com/blog/2011/07/5-ways-to-improve-your-relationship-with-money/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+QuizzleWire+%28Quizzle+Wire+&raquo;+Personal+Finance+Blog%29">5 Ways to Improve Your Relationship with Money</a> &mdash; To improve your relationship with money, spend money on others and not just yourself. [Quizzle Wire]</p> <p><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/the-5-fundamental-rules-of-working-from-home.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LifeHack+%28lifehack.org%29">The 5 Fundamental Rules Of Working From Home</a> &mdash; When working from home, be sure to thoroughly log each and every day. [Stepcase Lifehack]</p> <h2>Other Essential Reading</h2> <p><a href="http://www.savvysugar.com/Balancing-Career-Kids-18345378">2 Wise Career Moves to Make Before Having a Kid</a> &mdash; Before you have a kid, be sure to bank up your professional achievements. [SavvySugar]</p> <p><a href="http://parentingsquad.com/a-good-kind-of-supersize-6-big-indoor-toys-for-kids">A Good Kinds Of Supersize: 6 Big (Indoor) Toys For Kids</a> &mdash; One of the best big indoor toys for kids are floor mats. [Parenting Squad]</p> <p><a href="http://www.freeshipping.org/blog/7-things-that-will-keep-your-house-hot-in-the-summer/">7 Things that will Keep your House Hot in the Summer</a> &mdash; If your house is hot, you may have poor wall insulation. [Go Frugal Blog]</p> <p><a href="http://www.moneyhacksforfreelancers.com/2011/07/3-things-you-need-to-do-before-setting-up-an-emergency-fund/">3 Things You Need to Do Before Setting Up an Emergency Fund</a> &mdash; Before you set up an emergency fund, be sure to establish a goal range for your fund. [Money Hacks for Freelancers]</p> <p><a href="http://www.debtfreeadventure.com/rules-of-money-for-engaged-couples/">Rules of Money for Engaged Couples</a> &mdash; If you are engaged, don't share your bank accounts with your significant other quite yet. [Debt Free Adventure]</p> <br /><div id="custom_wisebread_footer"><div id="rss_tagline">This article is from <a href="https://www.wisebread.com/user/902">Ashley Jacobs</a> of <a href="https://www.wisebread.com/best-money-tips-get-a-great-deal-at-a-car-dealership">Wise Bread</a>, an award-winning personal finance and <a href="http://www.wisebread.com/credit-cards">credit card comparison</a> website. 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Hopefully, you can trust your gut instincts, just like the guy in this video below.</p> <p>You can watch the full 7 minutes for yourself, but the basic story is this. He went to a Mercedes Benz repair shop complaining of a problem with his moon roof. The shop took a look at it and said he needed a complete new moon roof. </p> <p><strong>Total charge from Merc = $6500 </strong>(remember, this is Mercedes so it&#39;s going to be high, but gee whizz).</p> <p>Being a customer worthy of Wisebread status, although I hope he got that Merc on a discount, he went elsewhere for a second opinion. I presume one of those smaller shops that don&#39;t have such huge mark-ups. You can imagine his surprise when he discovered the moon roof was simply jammed due to a small rock in the mechanism. </p> <p><strong>Total charge from other shop = $143 </strong></p> <p>All it took was a pair of tweezers to remove the offending pebble. So, armed with a hidden camera our seriously ticked-off customer goes back to the dealership. Here are the results.</p> <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://embed.break.com/MzEyNDQ5" /><embed src="https://embed.break.com/MzEyNDQ5" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><p><font size=1><a href="http://www.break.com/index/mercedes-dealership-tries-to-screw-customer.html">Car Dealership Tries To Screw Customer</a> - Watch more <a href="http://www.break.com/">free videos</a></font> <p><strong>Moral of the story:</strong> A second opinion is worth its weight in gold. Oh, and as I have said earlier, be wary of dealerships. They&#39;re not all bad, but some are just out for maximum profit. </p> <p><em>Main photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/saschaaa/">Saschaaa</a> (with a new plate by me) </em></p> <br /><div id="custom_wisebread_footer"><div id="rss_tagline">This article is from <a href="https://www.wisebread.com/user/17">Paul Michael</a> of <a href="https://www.wisebread.com/6500-repair-bill-to-remove-a-stone-from-a-moon-roof">Wise Bread</a>, an award-winning personal finance and <a href="http://www.wisebread.com/credit-cards">credit card comparison</a> website. 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