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Get discount new car quotes: Search CarBuyingTips.com Buying New Cars How To Buy New Cars Buy Cars Online First Time Car Buying Tips Hybrid Car Buying Tips Extended Auto Warranty Tips Canadian Car Buying Tips Top 10 Car Dealer Scams Military Personel Car Buying Our Reader's New Car Deals Auto Finance Auto Loans, Tips & Scams Auto Refinance Tips & Scams Bad Credit Auto Loan Tips Used Car Loan Tips Get Your Credit Report Online Car Insurance Buying Tips Used Cars Vehicle History Reports How To Buy Used Cars Selling Your Used Car Used Car Classifieds Auto Auction Buying Tips Auto Leasing New Car Leasing Tips ALG Residual Values Car Leasing Software Reviews Government Sites Attorney General Sites DMV Sites - All 50 States Drivers License Sites Take A Break Rate Your Dealer Experience Free Spreadsheet Downloads Humor: Alternate Car Names RV Buying Tips & Scams How To Jump Start A Car LoserCars.com Crash Of The Month Gallery Furniture Buying Tips	Leasing Part 4: Discount Car Buying On The Internet Researching New Car Prices & Used Car Prices In this Chapter: The Best Way You Can Save Cash On A New Car Is With Competing Quotes We'll review car buying sites like InvoiceDealers, Cars.com, Yahoo!Autos, Autos.com, Edmunds.com, MyRide.com and CarsDirect to lookup how much dealers pay for cars, and get free car purchase quotes. You can still use these sites if you're leasing too. Don't drive all over town and waste your time at different dealers. Do all your car pricing online first and get the quotes emailed or phoned to you from dealers using online car sites. You should get free purchase quotes from all the sites and never enter a dealership without your quotes to compare. You must check all sites because you never know which one has the best price on your car. Wouldn't you feel foolish if you bought your car then found out it was $1500 less on Cars.com or another service? A few minutes of research now will save you thousands off your new car, leaving you more money to spend on you and your family on a vacation. Loan/Lease Calculators: Read all about ALG Residual Values.You'll need this vital data to calculate your lease payments, and look up dealer cost for cars and trucks. Every person who leases use the same type of leasing software that the dealers use. Without it you're sailing the ocean of confusion, and they'll swallow you whole. I would not in a million years lease a car without using software first. Lease Software with ALG Lease Residual Values We like to use Expert Lease Pro because it's so simple. Choose your car from the menu. It lists the dealer invoice cost and MSRP for the base model and options. Check off the options and it supplies you with invoice and MSRP pricing. Look up the residual value for your vehicle using Expert Lease Pro's built-in Automotive Lease Guide (ALG) residual values. Select the sales tax info, and interest rate, and the software tells you what your payments will be. It's used by Attorney Generals to sue crooked car dealers. Discount Car Buying On The Internet Your first step along the road to buying your new car... How We Reviewed We did months of research on the top sites, analyzing them so you don't have to. We interviewed top managers for hours, we used them ourselves, received feedback from thousands of our visitors who used them, and guided friends to success with all of them. If they are not listed here, they are not worth using. Every person buying or leasing cars should use these services because it costs you nothing to get a purchase quote, and there's no pressure sales. The sites we recommend here are honest and have withstood months of our intense scrutiny, and successful usage of thousands of our daily visitors. There Are Two Types Of Car Buying Sites 1) Sites that sell directly to you via a local dealer and list all the prices online. 2) Free Quoting services with a network of thousands of dealers offering discounted internet volume prices. These services have new car research online as well. With some hot cars, you may not get a big discount, but it may be less than car dealers will charge you. How Free Car Pricing Services Work TIP: When filling out the forms for your car quotes or anything else online, remember to enter your full email address properly! If your email address is user@aol.com, don't just enter "user", you must add the full "user@aol.com", or your request will be denied. They need to be able to email your dealer contact information to you. Referral services provide a discount selling price through a network ofmore then 2000-5000 dealers, no tricks, no gimmicks. Member dealers get tons of internet referrals from free online request forms that you and I submit, so they give a better price. These services are useful because they typically hook you up with a fleet manager, or internet manager. This is how they give you get a better price. Sites that sell cars directly to you AND list your low buying price online: CarsDirect.com is the best car buying site because they list your purchase price online instantly with better prices than dealers, and cool 360o views. Don't be afraid of buying online, they are honest, your private data is safe, and you still get the manufacturer's warranty. We get a lot of email from people saying they were the best price. When I review dealer quotes, I always compare to the CarsDirect instant online quote. As you check off options, the screen shows invoice price, MSRP, and your low CarsDirect price. I saw a CarsDirect price for a Honda Accord EX $2500 off MSRP. Can't decide on a car? Park them in the "garage" until later. You still get rebates, they can finance your car too, so it's easier to buy. Once you place your order online, they assign you a service advisor. You pick up your new car at a partner dealer, bypassing the commissioned salespeople, and the paperwork is done in less than thirty minutes. I use them as the low price reference for dealer pricing, and most dealers can't beat the price. A great way to buy a car. Key features of CarsDirect: You pick up the car at your local dealer, they can't change the price, and you still get any rebates. Your credit card and privacy information is safe. You can take your car to any dealer for manufacturer's warranty service. The dealer can handle your trade in, or you can sell it yourself for more money.

Here's some good advice about the direct sales sites. If the price of your car on CarsDirect is really good or much lower than what you saw at the car dealer, then for Pete's sake, buy it online. No haggling for hours and killing your Saturday, your discounted price is listed on your screen, and your car is dropped off in your driveway. You never had to leave your chair. They don't force wasted extras down your throat, and the paperwork is done in 15 minutes. It's a no brainer.

Why You Need To Use Free Car Buying Sites like InvoiceDealers, Cars.com, Yahoo!Autos, Autos.com, Edmunds.com, MyRide.com and CarsDirect

• You can typically save more money than you would by haggling with slick commissioned salespeople.
• You bypass the commissioned salespeople to deal directly with an honest non commissioned fleet manager.
• These quotes are the standard that others must beat, put up or shut up, money talks, b.S. walks, no shell games.
• Without these quotes as a reference, i guarantee you'll pay too much at the dealer and lose thousands.
• If you decide not to accept their price, their quotes are still useful to get you a better deal by using them in your "folder".
• If you are a weak negotiator, these services are the only method I would recommend for you to buy your car.
• These sites list dealer invoice cost, MSRP, option pricing, rebates, incentives, reviews, and photos.

Don't worry about your private information and security
Don't worry about leaving your email and phone number, it's safe, they don't sell it to advertisers. They don't hound you about buying a car, they may email you or call once to give you your price, but that's it. These aren't greedy lot rats who hound you all week for a sale. If you don't like the price, they won't waste time on you. They need to get the deal done quickly with little effort.

Advantages:

• Painless way to shop that can save you thousands, you're in and out, most deals are done in a half hour.
• You still get any rebates that are available.
• You can take your car to any dealer for manufacturer's warranty service.
• The dealer can handle your trade in, or you can sell it yourself for more money.
• The fleet manager will usually show you the factory to dealer invoice.
• The paperwork is ready when you get there, just sign and drive. some dealers will even bring the car to your house.
• Quotes on new cars usually range from $250 below invoice to $500 over invoice, right in your target zone.
• You deal with no-commission fleet managers not sales people, so there's no tricks, no wasted extras.
• Discount car buying sites such as InvoiceDealers, Cars.com, Yahoo!Autos, Autos.com, Edmunds.com, MyRide.com and CarsDirect train dealers to be honest and not pull scams.

Now that you have gotten your free new car price quotes from the above sites, which site had the cheapest price for your car? How do you know who will have the best price? We never know, it's different for each car. that's why you need to check all the online sites for a consensus of what you should be paying for your new car.

Other Car Buying Methods

ADVANTAGES: Usually a good price, sometimes you don't pay dealer prep & ad fees, car is delivered to your home.

DISADVANTAGES: Some are paid by dealers, some critics doubt you are getting a good deal. but often you are getting a good deal.

I recommend that every single car buyer try sites like InvoiceDealers, Cars.com, Yahoo!Autos, Autos.com, Edmunds.com, MyRide.com and CarsDirect first, since they're free to use, then read the rest of this article. If the price is not within the 5% over dealer cost guidelines that you'll see in this article, then it's time to haggle. On cars with no backlog you should be able to get a price of slightly less than invoice price, to no more than $500 over invoice. I've advised many Cars.com users to negotiate with the dealer to give up the holdback as well, and surprisingly, many of the dealers do.

All about Kelley Blue Book, Edmunds, and Blue Book Values
You'll hear people ask "What's the Blue Book value of my trade-in?" The blue book value of your car is the market value listed in the Kelley Blue Book. Many people spell it wrong as Kelly Blue Book, or Kelly's Blue Book, or Kellys Blue Book or even NADA Blue Book. Others refer to it as blue book values or KBB. It's actually a yellow book! KBB started from a family owned used car business that bought trade-ins from auto dealers and used their internally generated list of used car prices to inform dealers how much the car was worth. They became trusted industry insiders and appraisers of car values. This led to Kelley Blue Book, named after the social register, called a blue book. The rest is history. KBB supplies used car prices to most car pricing sites.

A word of caution about Kelley Blue Book: They are a dealer friendly publication, and have only sold books to the public since 1993. We get one version and dealers get another version, which is why they laugh when you tell them you know the Kelley Blue Book Value of your trade in. I think blue book car prices show trade-in values lower than other sources, which falsely leads you to accept less for your car then it is worth. I suggest you use many sites in addition to Kelly Blue Book to price your trade in. Try to get a good consensus.

We get tons of questions from Canadian buyers who can't find dealer cost. Finally, Canadians can now get Canadian car prices as well as the dealer invoice price, and rebates. At last, salvation for our friends to the north. You can also try a FREE referral site like Car.com, with dealers in Canada, that use the strength of their large customer base to direct them to a dealer who will give them a reduced price from MSRP. As long as you are getting a quote that's comfortably below MSRP, that's the best you can do.

Go To Part 5: The Law, Your Rights, And Dealer Leasing Scams Revealed. Jump to any section. I suggest you read each chapter in order. Part 1: Car Leasing Intro What leasing means, how it works, the advantages and disadvantages of leasing, and how to finance a lease. Part 2: Leasing Glossary Glossary terms used in leasing, and how they are used against you so you'll be prepared for decisions in leasing your dream car. Part 3: Lease Examples Real world leases with fees attached. A free Excel spreadsheet to calculate your monthly lease payments. How car dealers calculate lease payments. Part 4: Web Sites To Use Reviews of discount car buying sites, determine how much dealers pay for cars, how to get ALG lease residual values. How to price your trade-in. Part 5: Leasing Scams Federal leasing laws, and all the common car dealer leasing scams. Part 6: Lease Dilemmas Money saving tips, getting out of common leasing dilemmas. What to do when your current lease is due. ALG Residual Values Reviews of top leasing software and where to get ALG residual values. How to avoid lease payment scams. CarBuyingTips.com