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Yesterday, The clunkyrobot, and his fiance, ventured into the harrowing jungle known as Used Auto Sales.

We first pulled into a chrysler dealership, and met a man who listened to us little, but spoke to us a great deal. He spoke so much, and listened so little, we had to stop him in mid sentence to tell him we were leaving, I'm still not sure if he heard us.

We drove across the street, and bought our new car.

A 1999 Mazda Protege.
The asking price was $12,000, we talked them down to $8,344.

I was stunned, we had them talked down to $9,500, which as far as my research tells me, is a decent price for this car, maybe a little marked up. We just kept telling them we were going to have to sleep on it, and we weren't even playing hard ball, we seriously just wanted to think about it. This drove them nuts, they finally said, "Give us a number, anything, a number that will make you drive home tonight in this car."

We said... "Um... (sheepishly) $8,000"
Our sales rep, the very cool Travis, came back from a talk with his boss, a piece of paper in hand with $8,344 written on it.

we said... "uh... yeah"
and the rest is used car sale history!
Look for a spicey new clunkyrobot Mazda Protege Desktop soon!

We highly recommend Stone Mountain Toyota for their undying efforts to put us in a used car we felt we got a super-fair deal on. We couldn't have done it without our tough-as-nails, and not a little bit smarmy spiritual advisor Chuck, who kept us grounded, thanks dude. Clunkyrobot is now accepting submissions for a name to cristen our new car with.

also, Be an educated consumer:
> Clark Howard Comsumer Advocate
> Clark's Car Advice