There’s a theory holding that when gas prices are high, consumers wind up paying higher prices for cars—especially vehicles with good gas mileage. Well, gas prices are rising, and sure enough, the numbers show that we’ve been paying more for cars lately, too—a lot more.
March 6 is not a good day to buy a new car. In fact, if you’re hoping to get a decent price at the dealership—and who isn’t?—this Tuesday is supposedly the worst day of the month, and one of the worst days of the entire year, to go car shopping. But it’s not the year’s [...]
Study after study shows that, generally speaking, women are uncomfortable haggling over major purchases. The groundbreaking book Women Don’t Ask indicated that men are four times more likely to initiate negotiations than women, and that women have been known to pay upwards of $1,300 extra to avoid haggling over the price of a car. But [...]
You don’t need to hire somebody to get your creditors to settle for less than what you owe. You can do it yourself, but there are some things you should know. Here are the “secrets” debt-settlement companies don’t want you to know.
There are also money lessons to be learned in this roundup from millionaires who hate fees as much (or more) than you and I, high-profile pawn shop owners who are wise enough to walk away rather than lose money on deals, and parents who rarely if ever splurge on purchases for their kids.
Let me revisit a classic home buyer's question ("What should I bid on a property?") with some insights for today's modern, love-to-bargain, Internet data-filled world. It's a re-examination of home buying in a Groupon world.
This week’s money tip roundup also includes suggestions for tweaking your brown-bag lunch into a meal worth looking forward to, and a personal challenge that’ll make you $1,000 richer by summer’s end.
This week’s tip roundup also includes lessons learned from taking on DIY projects, from observing the business model of discount supermarkets, and from not shopping for 127 days in a row.
This week’s roundup also includes insights on technology rip-offs, the future of coupons, and tactics for handling everything from hard-nosed negotiations to selling stuff on Craigslist.
Find out how directly from the source—a doctor.
Increasingly, the idea of a completely set, non-negotiable price is disappearing pretty much anywhere and everywhere consumers shop nowadays—even at huge retail centers such as Lowes.
