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bigtuna732 t1_j7ra2r1 wrote

Reply to Best place to see stars in RI by Best_Reserve_8572

I have an app called meteoractive you can see when all the meteor showers are coming and best times to see a shit ton of shooting stars …. Another app good to have is skyview I do the free lite version it tells you what stars and planets your looking at up there .

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BatsTheAssassin t1_j7r82sx wrote

Reply to Selling to Dealerships by blacklabz1015

I sold to Carmax in 2018. Went to a Toyota Dealership at the end of rt. 37 and made preliminary arrangements to buy a truck. I had already got an offer for my trade-in from CarMax for $10.5k but wanted to see what the dealer would offer me since I was willing to trade. They offered me $7k and wouldn't budge and I declined. They brought the manager over and pressured me into taking the $7k and I told them I had an offer for $10.5k from CarMax and it made zero sense to take their deal. I told them that I would take $7k for my trade if they took $3.5k off their sale price to make up the difference. Why should I be the one to take a $3k hit for no reason? They declined and thought I was bluffing with the CarMax price and challenged me to go get the $10.5k. So I did. It had been a few months since my CarMax offer so when I went back they offered $10k which I gladly accepted. The salesman and the manager actually called me while I was at CarMax asking why it was taking so long. It had been ~1 hour, so not long at all. CarMax cut me the check right there and I went back to the dealership and signed the check over as a down payment. The look on their faces when I presented the check for $10k was was pretty cool. They were shocked and I heard them mumble something like "oh shit, we need to watch out for this...." or something like that. They are counting on people not doing their due diligence and accepting their shitty, lopsided offers. Get the CarMax or Carvana offers prior to talking to the dealer and have it presentable if the dealer lowballs.

I may have been able to get slightly more with a private sale but I just didn't want to deal with that hassle. Plus, when I was buying, trucks that I wanted (specifically having 3 child seat anchors in the back) were few and far between and I needed to act pretty quickly and didn't have time for the private sale. CarMax made it pretty easy, IMO, and I saved $3k versus selling to the dealer.

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dweeb_plus_plus t1_j7r6aaw wrote

Reply to Looking for a legit cheesesteak by Common_Sir7138

I'm prepared for the downvotes but Tilly's was bad. Dry-ass bready and expensive cheese steaks. If your restaurant is called "Tilly's Cheese Steaks" and that's your sole concentration then it should be the most phenomenal mind blowing sandwich ever. It's a simple thing to make.

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dickieb81 t1_j7r4e2l wrote

Reply to Looking for a legit cheesesteak by Common_Sir7138

Honestly have yet to find one better then can be easily made at home. Shaved steak for like $7 some LOL American cheese, onion (red pepper if you want to piss off r/food) They are so simple to make its amazing how many bad ones are out there.

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SeaworthinessLeft88 t1_j7r3fsz wrote

Reply to Selling to Dealerships by blacklabz1015

My understanding is that CarMax offers some of the best prices for a used car. I think the only way that you’ll do better is if you list it privately. You’ll have to decide if the difference in price is worth the hassle of listing it, showing it, and going through a private sale.

That said, if you’re buying a new car and don’t want to sell the old one privately, trading it in at the dealership where you’re buying the new car might work out best mathematically. That’s because the sale price, which the car is taxed at, is reduced by the trade-in value of the car that you’re trading in.

So if you buy a car for $30,000, trade in at CarMax for $5000, you’ll pay $30k x 7% ($2100) in taxes. But if the dealership gives you a comparable trade in value for the new car, you’ll pay $25k x 7% ($1750) in taxes. So unless carmax offers $350 more in this hypothetical example, you’ll ultimately end up better rolling in the trade value of the old car into the new car’s purchase.

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