Man, dealerships need to go. Just useless middlemen and scalpers.

We've been searching for a great Miata for a friend of ours and a couple weeks back, we thought we found the perfect one. A 2002 Blazing Yellow SE w/o tupperware with 67,956 miles for $8k on craigslist in Charlotte. Blazing Yellow is our friend's favorite color for a NB and he prefers no tupperware. Sweet, we thought, lets contact these people and talk to them about the car. We had just been looking at the ad, I mean literally seconds ago, so surely the ad is still up. Nope. Sonofabitch! And neither of us thought to screencap the listing with the contact info. Damn! At that point we sucked it up and let it go.

Well, today we found that same car, still in Charlotte, but now at a dealership. It now has 67,977 miles on it. A whopping 21 mile increase. Now guess how much they're asking for it. If you guessed $12k, you win the no prize. Are you shitting me? That's a disgusting mark up. There's buying and flipping and then there's out right retarded greed. $12k is a number they pulled out of their collective asses. NADA clean retail is $7,625. I ain't one to praise NADA or call it accurate, but it's usually a good ballpark figure. What the hell are they thinking with that number? Do they hope someone will buy it and finance it through them at that price? Just so they can rape someone even worse with more of their bullshit?

Just one more reason why it's difficult to find a good, clean car at a fair price.