Car shopping rant

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
> 
> I wish someone would explain why buying a car isn't as 
> straightforward as buying any other commodity.  Grrr!

All that haggling and cheating (by both salesman and customer) and 
trying to out-intimidate each other (I bring my friend Diane to 
intimidate the dealership's closer) is called 'horse-trading'. I 
asked Tim: "Why do we have to go through all this stupid 
horse-trading?!" and he said: "Look at what it's called. Probably the 
people who used to sell horses moved to selling cars when the 
market for horses got real small."