Miguel's new Prius!

I totally forgot to include this story in my other blogs but it's pretty good (probably more entertaining for me but I'll share anyway). Miguel sold his truck in LA before we left and wanted to buy a Prius. He called a number of dealers and was told over and over again that there was a six month waiting list. However, some dealers (very few) will keep one or two on the lot and mark up the price so you end up paying more but he didn't want to do that either. So, he made a list of all the Toyota dealers in the Columbus, Ohio area and as we got closer we were going to call and see if anyone had one on the lot since Columbus is only about 3 hours outside of Pittsburgh. Well, the night we stayed in Dayton, Miguel made calls to all but 2 dealers and no one had any. We had pretty much given up hope but the next morning, while Miguel was driving, I called the last 2 dealers. The last call I made, I spoke to the sales guy and he said they actually had one on the lot that morning. It was a fully loaded model, silver and it was ordered by a former employee who backed out of the purchase. I told him we wanted to buy it and we would be there in 1 hour.

Okay, so we arrive at the dealership and there is like a mad rush to sell this car - all the salespeople are calling potential buyers - people waiting for this car. One sales guy (not ours), even tells us as we walk in the door that he has a buyer for the car arriving in 15 minutes and if we didn't get the paperwork filled out before him, he was going to sell the car to them. Talk about pressure! Well, Miguel looked at the car and basically told the guy to get the paperwork going cause he was definitely gonna buy this car. One of the best parts was, the guy who sold us the car had only been working there for about 6 months and the other sales guy that pressured us was their top sales guy - 8 years of experience. Even while we were filling out paperwork, we heard other salespeople calling potential buyers just in case our credit didn't go through or something - absolutely crazy!

Well, we won! Here is a picture of Miguel with his new Prius in our driveway.