I just bought a new Chevy Silverado. My wife hates buying a car. She was saying how ridiculous it is to go out shopping for something that has a price on it that no one is actually going to pay for it and have something to trade in for it that no one knows the exact value of. Then to look at this thing that you are going to buy, be very coy about what you will actually pay for it, while the are very coy about how much they will actually sell it for, then go home to have salesmen call you up at home later and try to trick you into believing that someone else might buy the thing out from under you if you don't buy it yourself before they do for a price that has yet to even be established. Then, after hours or even days of haggling to come to a mutual agreement on what you will pay for it and what they will give you for a trade in, only to find out later that there are hundreds of dollars worth of added expenses tacked on to it which were not mentioned during the haggling, or were mentioned in passing. After all this arguing over price, trying to get the lowest possible price that you can, these extra added expenses are just paid with no thought whatsoever. I told her that I think the process comes from horse trading. I think that car salesmen are just modern day horse traders, and that the whole process was established hundreds of years ago, before there were even cars.
