<prompt> Human: I would like to share my experience and the things that I learned while buying Nissan Altima 2013 on Dec 28. Excuse my English please- non native English speaker here.1. Never trust the salespeople- especially the ones that work on commission. Their sole purpose is to sell an item at the highest price possible than the cost price and give the lowest money possible for your trade in. So, never believe in them saying you are getting a great deal.2. Salespeople are even more predatory in holiday times. They have one entry level car that was displayed on their website as if they were giving deals on every single car. When you go to their actual dealer location, there is usually no car with that deal and they will try to sell you another car. Btw, Do not believe when they say they are giving deals because of holiday. What they are actually doing screwing you in every possible way by actually just reducing the price by 500- which you would have negotiated anyway. Plus, its harder for customers to negotiate when they say they are already giving deals. 3. Follow your instincts- well, most of the times, because most of the times your instincts will guide you. I was feeling uncomfortable during the time I was talking about the price and trade in. I was sensing something wrong. However, I went ahead with the deal. I dont know why I signed the paperworks. I should have followed my instincts. Another example : when i verbally said i would sign the deal, they shook my hands and smiled and went to prepare the paperwork. When they were walking away, I would see the sidview of grin on their face. It was not a grin that said yes, we sold a car.. it was evil as if to say Yes , we got this guy so good!4. Do not make a deal unless you have two other friends with you. Sometimes you do not catch some cheating done by the salespeople. But your friends might. They might ask you Dude, do you really wanna buy this car for this much money? Its not worth. or something like that. If you take only one friend- sometimes that one friend might hesitate to advise you as it is his single opinion. If there are two other people, they can talk to you much easily. Before you go to the dealership, tell your friends If you think it is not a good deal, if you sense something wrong, if you think we should not make a deal, do not hesitate to pull me aside and talk to me5. Unless you desperately need a newer car, do calculations and think ten times before you upgrade. Do you have enough money in savings? Do you really need a newer car? Is your present car good enough or not?6. Do not trust salespersons words. Check everything by yourself. For example : ask for a features checklist of the car and check everything that you can check right there. My salesperson told me the CD player is six CD player. I trusted him, but turns out it is not a six CD player. I found that the next morning when i went to pick up CDs that I had forgotten in my trade in car. I complained, but all they did was - they said it was an unfortunate situation, and I could get a six CD player at my own cost at the dealership.7. The sales people will bring ten different papers with 10 different sets of numbers, APRs, terms, trade in value, monthly payments, bla bla bla. They will try to confuse you as much as they can. So before you say yes, take a step back and look at the final numbers. Take half an hour to understand the numbers. Better, take that paper, tell them you will come back after talking to someone and go home and take your time to understand if you are getting bad instincts.8. Read every single papers while signing. The finance manager will try to skip, or explain in very little words within few seconds the things that give leverage to customers. So read every single paper and look at every sinle number. Usually there are extra charges, unnecessary insurances, dealership service charges etc added to the already agreed price. They will not tell you about all those numbers they add in the final paper you sign. They will just say this is the paperwork that says you are buying the wonderful car. Please sign here, here, here, here and here.. They will try to talk to you in a directive way. You might not even think about looking at some parts of the papers, and just signing it. Do not make that mistake. Even if they are rushing you, take your time and look at every single number that is added to the deal. I found out afterwards that they added 3000 dollars dealership charge that I did not even know about.9. Do not go to such expensive places on weeks when you had a tight work schedule, over times, lack of sleep, insomnia etc. Never go there in such time where you might not be able to comprehend the numbers.10. Ask for return policies. I just moved to California, and I did not know about the no cooling off period. The finance manager told me I could come back if I wanted to return the car with two days, pay 250 dollars to sign a paperwork, pay a restocking fee and return it. When I went back the next day- they told me I should have signed the paperwork the day before when I bought the car. So, please read the paperwork properly. As it turns out, he mixed up the paperwork. Later on I found out that I had signed on a paperwork that said I did not want the option to return the car.11. When you buy a car, dont believe in the salesperson saying You can buy the car today and bring it on Monday to get those little things fixed. NEVER TRUST THEM. Their aim is to sell the car. Once the car is sold they do not care about fixing those little things. So never buy anything that needs some fixes later on. There were some scratches on my car that the salespeople said they would get it fixed within few days. Its been a week and they always say they have ordered paint and will call me when they are ready.  <response>: I havent bought a new car in a long time, but I found these reddit posts about the experience quite illuminating: 