I'll never buy a car from Jon Lancaster again.

I'm disappointed  - a good friend Mr. Knowitall post a 2 minute video blog every week or so on Facebook and I was going to share it on this blog but it looks like it's just a Facebook thing.
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3-0 in the NBA so far wagering!!   And my Bridgejumper NFL system is 16-8 ATS.

I'm in 2nd place in two confidence pools and 1st place in my fantasy football league with two star players doing nothing (jennings - you probably heard of him on the Packers)

I'm on fire!!

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a quick political thing - I hate how the media handles polls.  One poll is meaningless yet they continue spout numbers disregarding the polls bias. What has to be done is to take ALL the polls together and number crunch.

In Wisconsin Tammy Baldwin has a pretty good chance of winning, in fact an 82% chance.

For President Obama is pulling away and is almost back to where he was before the first debate debacle.  The newest pool says he has a 8% lead in Wisconsin but in reality it's more like 4% - HOWEVER, that 4% has very very little margin of error (+/- 3.4%) as it's a combination of many polls.  Even with -3.4% Obama wins.

As I have been saying all along - this race for President and Senate is all but over.  Even the sports books are seeing Obama odds are increasing to -300 (bet $300 to get $400 back).

Remember - the media wants you to listen to the news. 

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Jon Lancaster

This is probably not interesting at all to most people but I just have to get this off my chest so I can move on.  I am more mad at myself for not walking out on the deal THREE times with Lancaster but we really liked the car.  I've had to come to terms with letting myself down. I'm normally pretty good at buying used cars. In fact I enjoy it.

When two sides can work together and help each other out both feel good and will work together again.  I've never had a dealership NOT want to work to mutual benefit so it was a learning experience.   
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Yea - so Jon Lancaster.  We get there and really like the Honda Fit.  I take the information and look at all the other Fits around and they are all in about the same price range.  I really did my research on this one in a obsessive way.

However - the facts sheet on this one have all sorts of additions that I know this Fit does not have.  Like I KNOW it's not a hybrid but the sheet has that highlighted.  

We take the car for a test drive and go a few blocks and the gas light is on, we're almost out of gas so we can't test drive it and the salesmen who was in the car is worried.  Which was a good thing because it also had a flat tire.

I ask about the extra layer of whatever on the hood and they say it was because it was towed behind something, fine. So now we know that the mileage is only engine miles, not tire miles.

I talk to the salesmen and I know it is only a few days before they need to make a deal and I tell him I know and so forth.

We come back to test drive the car again and I HATE having the salesmen in the car with me, never again will I let that happen.  But we really like the car.

They come down $200 which to me is an insult. If they are going to have one price then tell me.  I get grumpy but they will not drop it a penny more. We should have walked out right there but I liked the salesmen who was knew!  But it gets real sleazy after that.

Once we have agreed to buy the car we tell them we have 2.79% financing and they say that is nice.

We go over the warranty and numbers are spoken and are talking about the extended warranty. Now many people say don't ever take the extended warranty but that's actually a fallacy.  If you plan on owning the car for a very long time it's a good move.  YEA YEA you could take the monthly premiums and put them in the bank but come on, will you REALLY do that?

So at one point I say "so all we will need to pay is $280?"  Yes,  "That is all, no more, $280 total".  Yes.  I look at DJ because I know that is wrong and repeat my question "So for extended coverage,  you say $280 and nothing more over 5 years".  Yes.  (that's fucking BS, I know it's not true).

He types up the invoice thingy and it's actually closer to $2300 which is what I thought it would be.  Should have walked out right there!

Meanwhile we have told the guy that we have financing at 2.79% from UW Credit Union and he says OK.

Paper work is all finish and I'm looking over everything about ready to sign and notice that financing is not 2.79 but more like 3.8% from some hippy dippy weirdo bank. WTF - should have walked out right there!! But he corrected it to 2.75% OH - he said we never told him.  Bull Shit we didn't.   DJ and I both mentioned it.  Or else they just don't really listen to customers.     

So I should have walked out 3 times.  The only reason I didn't was I like the salesmen.  He was either new or REALLY good at acting new.  He seemed to be the only honest one there but had only worked there for 4 months.

I'll never buy from Jon Lancaster again.

BTW - love love love the car.

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