I tried it, totally sucked. They sell your personal info to every dealer within 50 miles. The certificate they give you is a meaningless piece of paper, the only value it has is to get you in the door so the salesman can grind away at you for the up sell. Every dealer that contacted me said they had "exactly" the vehicle I wanted on the lot, not a single one did. All of them tried to move me into a much more expensive vehicle that they had in inventory.
It was a complete waste of time and a very frustrating experience.
just do it the old fashion way thru email, pit dealers against another until you find the lowest price that the others won't match....
I was heavily considering email, though with my past experience with emails.. They sometimes don't get answered.
I tried it, totally sucked. They sell your personal info to every dealer within 50 miles. The certificate they give you is a meaningless piece of paper, the only value it has is to get you in the door so the salesman can grind away at you for the up sell. Every dealer that contacted me said they had "exactly" the vehicle I wanted on the lot, not a single one did. All of them tried to move me into a much more expensive vehicle that they had in inventory.
It was a complete waste of time and a very frustrating experience.
If you do any of them, feel free to give out your mailing address, but use a trash Email address and setup a google voice number for the phone calls....you'll get called at least 10-20 times per dealership on the list and get tagged by their auto-spammers.
I used this guide http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/finance/1001920/ to get a car for my sister this weekend. Started emailing 5 dealers (all were responsive) Thursday and drove off with a new car on Sunday. Got it for well below the Truecar price.
Ah I see.
What website do you recommend?
so trucar is for new cars?
How about used cars?
(because I orefer someone else pay the depreciation )