zroger73
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Congratulations on your purchase. If I were going to purchase an extended warranty, I'd have purchased a genuine 8/120/$0 Honda Care warranty for $1,300 instead of some third-party warranty.I then opened by big mouth and said that I might be interested in the 10 year/150,000 mile warranty but I wasn’t going to pay $3,900 for it. He reduced the price to $1,700 and I said that’s fair, but I didn’t have $1,700 laying around (I did, I just didn’t want to pull it out of savings). He then asked, “Well, why can’t you just put it on your credit or debit card?” *sigh* Told him I’d call my FI and see what they could do. FI said that they’d have to reissue the loan, get the check back, etc., and I decided it was way too much trouble. Called Finance Guy back and told him to forget it, and thanks anyway.
Meanwhile I’m stewing over Finance Guy’s high-pressure sales tactics and overall bad attitude and how it put a black cloud over my car purchase. I called and spoke to a manager that politely listened to me vent and he promised to get to the bottom of it. Sure enough, several hours later, he called back and said that he made some calls to his bank and Honda beat my FI’s rate (2.32% vs. 2.39%). Big deal, you might say, but that meant that I could roll the extended warranty into the cost of the loan and finance it… and my payment only went up by ~$30/month.
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