New Car and Used Car Buying Guide

Welcome to the world's best free car buying guide for buying new cars, used cars, auto leasing and avoiding car buying scams. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll buy a car. There are copycat sites with similar names who paraphrase our content, but we are the original and the best. This 100% FREE site is about truth, but few people want you to know the truth about buying cars and SUVs.

Your host Jeff Ostroff shows you how to haggle your best fair profit offer on new cars and determining dealer cost for new autos.

Using Our Car Buying Guide:

Top New Car Buying Tips
- Buy a Car: How to buy a new car, online car buying, save money & avoid scams
- Extended Warranty: Save money & avoid scams with our extended warranty tips
- Auto Loan: How to use the internet to save money on your new car loan
- Bad Credit Auto Loan: Financing tips for people with bad credit
- New Car Lease: Our guide to leasing a car & avoiding new car dealer scams
- Car insurance: Save money on car insurance
- Short on time? Read: Buying a New Car in 5 Quick Steps
Top Used Car Buying Tips
- How to Buy a Used Car: Learn to save money and avoid scams when buying a used car
- Extended Warranty: Protect your used car with an Extended Warranty
- Vehicle History Report: Learn these reports can protect you when buying a used car
- How to Sell a Used Car: Tips to use to get the most money when you sell your used car
Additional Topics
- Top 10 Car Dealer Scams: Learn all the dealer scams so you can avoid them
- New Car Deals: See how much other CarBuyingTips.com visitors paid
- New Car Dealer Reviews: Check to see if another visitor has reviewed the dealership before you go
- Auto Refinance: If you got into a bad car loan learn to refinance and save thousands
- Canadian car prices: New car buying tips for Canadians

We'll teach you about negotiating tools like CarWoo
Carwoo is a nationwide negotiating service. A huge benefit they offer is keeping your personal information secret from the dealership until you are ready to finalize your new car purchase. With the normally $99 "plus" plan that I would recommend (especially with a discount to $89 for our visitors) Carwoo sets up a competitive marketplace for you so you will always get the best deal. The free "basic" plan lets you negotiate without revealing your contact information. Click here for more details about CarWoo.

The Best Time for New Car Buying
Many people ask me "When is the best time to buy a new car?" Read our tips on the best time to buy a car.

People Keeping Cars Longer: CarBuyingTips.com user data shows that due to the economy, people are keeping their cars longer and more people are buying used cars instead of new cars. It's a good idea to protect your investment in an older auto with an extended warranty. Learn what to look for in an extended warranty and how to avoid getting scammed in our Extended Warranty chapter.

Our $avOmeter Blasts through the $12 million savings level!
Savings reported by our visitors passes this important milestone, confirming the quality of free car buying education you receive here. Recently visitors are reporting savings of $2000 to $6000+ off MSRP on even moderately priced vehicles. Click here to see our savings database.

Quick Start New Car Buying Guide: How To Save $2000-$4000 When You Buy A New Car, Truck, SUV or Minivan.

We'll teach you how to save cash on a car or SUV with competing bids
We'll review auto buying sites like CarWoo, Cars.com, Edmunds.com, MyRide.com and CarsDirect to learn what dealers pay for new cars, trucks, SUVs and minivans, and how you can save the most money. These sites offer you free new car price quotes and new car dealer invoice prices. Competitive automobile quotes helps keep new car dealers in line.

Read our new guide First Time Car Buying Tips For Teens & Safe Teen Driving. This is required reading for all young adults buying autos.

Where to get new car invoice pricing and rebate information
After successfully using consumer advocate tools like the FightingChance.com New Car Buying Info Package, our visitors are happy to fill our $avOmeter Database with their savings on their new car. You can get new car rebate information, secret factory to dealer incentives and new car dealer invoice pricing from FightingChance.com. The market sales intelligence they provide for your new car is priceless.

Think my tips don't work? Check out these angry emails we get from new car dealers: The Good, The Mad, The Ugly:

From: Mike Schroeder
Subject: CarBuyingTips.com Question

I wanted to let you know, you piece of s**t, that a lot of honest people make a living selling cars. The biggest scam is you and this bulls**t service! Bl*w Me!

I cleaned up Mr. Mature's words with a **. Some auto dealers like us, some hate us.

On the flip side, here is some CarBuyingTips.com visitor feedback:

From: Maria January 15, 2012

Hooray!! I am a finance manager and have been in the business for over 25 years! I read your article and agree 100%! There are many scams that go on in the car business particularly in the finance office. I ABSOLUTELY HATE the fact, that there are some people that are just liars and cheats that call themselves finance managers or any kind of car person for that matter! I run the finance department at the dealership I work for, and not only are we FULLY and COMPLETELY compliant, I run that department with Integrity! I DO NOT EVER, lie on credit applications, inflate incomes or book values for vehicles. We are very successful DOING IT RIGHT AND LAWFULLY! I have been with this dealership for 1 year and have doubled their profit, by being fair. Profit is not a bad word, gouging is....we make a little profit on a lot of folks and I only sell them the products that are right for them and make sense, WITHOUT LYING ABOUT THE PRODUCT OR THE BENEFITS! Previous to my current employ, I walked out of a dealership, because I refused to compromise my integrity!!! Great job on this article. You definitely were a "car guy" at one point! Obviously, an honest one! Thanks.

From: Joel May 3, 2012

Third car I've bought after using your site. Would never do it without it. $3,000 under MSRP on a very inexpensive car. YES!!!!

Click Here to Read More Amusing Nasty Grams

Not Every Car Salesperson Is Out To Scam You
We've dealt with many honest new car salespeople. We're here to educate new car buyers and only belittle car dealers who lie and cheat. Most automobile dealers care about you and will give you a great new car deal. They deserve to profit, they have mortgages, "mouths to feed", and so do you, so haggle a new car deal that is fair for you and the automobile dealer. Treat them with the same respect that you would expect, and don't lie. Justify your offers in a professional business manner. The nicest new car dealer can still be a tough seller. Salespeople who complain we are lumping all car salespeople as "sewer rats" misread the word some to mean all. Don't forget furniture stores, who mark up 400%. With 50% off sales, they still double their money.

FRAUD ALERT: Read our Investigative Report: Consumer Guide To Avoiding eBay Fraud, Escrow Internet Fraud, Check Fraud, Auto Fraud and Nigerian Scams. Our work on these scams was profiled by MSNBC. If you're selling autos online, don't accept a cashier's check until you read our report. These car buying fraud and escrow fraud scams nail hundreds of victims daily on cars, cameras, jewelry, computers. If a seller tells you to use an escrow other than escrow.com, it's probably a scam.

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Buy A Car (Great advice for buying that new car, SUV, or minivan)
Buy a Used Car (buy your SUV or minivan used for a lot less)

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