With the exception of a few born chiselers, it isn’t that hard to make a deal with these people. If there’s a problem, it’ll come later, when their check bounces, or when they call back in three weeks and want you to pay for a $500 repair bill, claiming you knew about the problem when you sold it. (more…)
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Selling Your Used Car Post 3
Thursday, May 12th, 2011Selling Your Used Car Post 2
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011Selling A Car Yourself
If you can, you grab a convenient man (husband, boyfriend, father, uncle, son, third cousin), and get him to do the whole thing for you. Some men actually like selling cars! And as you can see from the comparison chart between selling yourself and the dealer trade-in price, you can definitely afford to bribe them. (Best dinner in town, a football game, a new tool, etc.) (more…)
Selling Your Used Car Post 1
Monday, April 25th, 2011There are two ways: trade it in, or sell it yourself. Please at least skim this whole page, because there are some details to selling cars that vary from state to state.
Either way, if the paint and upholstery are in decent shape, do yourself a big favor: spend $50-100 to have it “detailed” – that is, professionally cleaned by a place that buffs and waxes and vacuums and treats the vinyl. (more…)
The Stay With the Car Myth
Friday, March 25th, 2011We get nervous when we hear radio interviews with experts advising people to “Stay with the car, always stay with the car until help arrives.”
Market Jitters
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011This past winter, the notoriously frugal Sanford Weill, CEO of Travelers Group, acquired another brokerage house. So how dangerous a time could it be for the stock market? Price-earnings ratios may be too high and dividend yields too low, but baby boomers will keep socking away money in their 401(k) plans, the bulls argue. And with inflation low, productivity high and labor cheap, why wimp out and worry about being trampled by runaway bulls? Bulls have the economy going for them right now.
New Zealand
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011From New Zealand, we do have other news. Prime Minister Helen Clark, who was on her way to the latest gathering of National Leaders Who Just Want To Get Out Of Their Countries For Awhile, came back after the events in the US. Her return trip, however, met with a snag or two when she reached Australia. At Melbourne’s airport, eyewitnesses report that her planned departure aboard an Air New Zealand flight met with a peculiar phenomenon known as Ansett-ization wherein a plane apparently emits some sort of magnetic force that causes baggage carts to cluster all around. As a result, the aircraft is rendered immoblie until experts, known as Ansett employees, enter the magnetic field and remove the baggage carts.
GPS Technology Helps Guide the Wired Traveller
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011Afew weeks ago, I travelled to Chicago to deliver a speech. Upon arrival at O’Hare Airport, I hopped in the cab and told the driver where I wanted to go. My hotel was located about 15 minutes to the north of O’Hare, but I immediately figured out that the driver was going the wrong way.
The Automobile and the PC 2
Monday, February 7th, 2011It’s a pattern that is occurring worldwide. Since 1991, Mexico has seen an increase of some 30% in the number of automobiles on its roads. Until the Asian flu affected the economy, Bangkok was seeing some 300 new automobiles appear on the roads each and every day. South Korea has seen a doubling in the number of cards on its road in less than five years. In Europe, 1/3 of all major cities have an average in-town speed of 15km an hour – or less.
The Automobile and the PC 1
Thursday, January 27th, 2011Larry Fox struck a chord with millions of people around the world when he released his 1975 hit, Traffic Jam, a song which became a regular on the 5’ o’clock drive home show.
Show biz comes to Australian Karting at Eastern Creek
Thursday, June 17th, 2010The program for the weekend provides a variety of entertainment for the whole family. The on track action is only a small part of the festivities for the weekend.
Karting is in Australia is normally a low profile affair. It is lots of fun and on most weekends across the country you will find plenty of people participating in club level racing, but these mainly interest only other kart racers.
The trend now is to put on an event, with the kart racing as only one of the attractions.
Managing Director of Eastern Creek International Karting Raceway, Garry Holt, said that the event is just not for the karting fraternity: “Unlike many other karting events, we are trying to promote this event not just to the karting (more…)