On Thursday I got a letter from Zimbrick Used cars saying they were desperate for some late model cars with local histories and would pay over for them.
So, just for shits and giggles I found out what it would cost to pay off my '05 Murano to get out of the lease and went in Saturday. Their initial offer was about $2,000 over blue book but $2,500 under what I owed. I thanked them for their time and was about to leave when they asked what I would be looking for when it came time to trade it in. I told them I really loved the Murano but wanted Nav and ipod integration.
Well, as it just so happened, they had an '06 Murano with the same package as mine (SL AWD Touring) and the Nav system. Only 5,000 miles on it, was one of the Nissan salesman's and they traded it after a year for an Altima. We started working the numbers and I got them to increase their offer on mine to cover the lease payoff without increasing the price on the other one and also throw in the ipod adapter so that I can control it through the nav/stereo and I drove it home 90 minutes later.
I'm still not sure how that helped them out with their shortage of used cars as I took a better car and left them mine. Maybe it'll be easier to sell it since it's cheaper. Anyway, not my problem.
Here's a pic I took this morning...
3 comments:
I'm calling you when I need to get my next car.
Well - thank goodness you paid for all of pesky interest before you sold the old car.
Darva (no real names)wins the pool for when you would buy a new car!!
Well, I was leasing the old car...
If you're not going to use real names, how do I know who won the pool?
And technically, Darva didn't win because I bought a USED car, not a new one.
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