Trading-In Your Car Narragansett RI

Former car salesman Michael Royce explains how they can afford to give you more for your trade than it's really worth. So read on for these dealership tricks and scams revealed.

Soda Motors
(401) 846-7632
312 Connell Hwy
Newport, RI
New England Roadside, LLC
401-207-0718
PO Box 4962
Middletown, RI
Premier Motors Inc
(401) 741-5934
33 Railroad Ave
Westerly, RI
Route 3 Auto Sales
(401) 822-2001
2 Tiogue Ave
West Warwick, RI
Tarbox Big Lot
(401) 826-1500
870 Quaker Ln
Warwick, RI
Frenchtown Auto Sales
(401) 885-4448
171 Frenchtown Rd
North Kingstown, RI
International Motor Group
(401) 885-5355
4657 Post Rd
East Greenwich, RI
Urso's Auto Detailing
(401) 348-0200
93 Granite St
Westerly, RI
Laura's Auto Sales
(401) 828-5432
673 Tiogue Ave
Coventry, RI
Casey's Auto Sales
(401) 732-5789
2118 W Shore Rd
Warwick, RI
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Trading-In Your Car



I saw a dealer ad that said, "If we make a deal, we'll pay off your trade, no matter what you owe on it." I have a vehicle with a trade-in value of $4,000 but I owe $6,000 on it. The new car I want to buy has a $500 rebate. How can they afford to pay-off my vehicle when I owe more than it's worth?

In order to pay off the $6,000 loan for a car that is only worth $4,000, the dealership has to come up with the extra $2,000. The $500 rebate helps -- but the other $1,500 has to come from somewhere else. And the most likely place they'll find this extra money is in the profit of the new car you are buying. In other words, they need to make at least a $1,500 profit from the sale of your new car to gain that extra money. Of course, you may never know this since they can hide the $1,500 profit in several ways -- including putting it into the cost of your financing, extended warranty or other extras. The bottom line here is that, somehow,

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