How You Win Every Negotiation

I will be the first person to say that CIA teaches you incredible everyday skills. Greetings Everyday Spy, When we moved back to Florida from Abu Dhabi I had to buy a car. Funny how buying a car always brings up feelings of excitement, right?!?! Until you start remembering that you have to deal with car salesmen, spend hours waiting hungry in a lobby, and pay some stranger a whole heap of your money… Let’s face it -- buying a car sucks because the selling takes all the fun out of it. 84.5% of car purchases are made using debt - aka ‘financing’ in the car sales world. 90% of those purchases take more than 4 years to pay off. 70% take more than 5 years to pay off. When you take a car loan longer than 5 years, you actually end up paying for both a loan AND car repairs every year after year 5. But the salesman never tells you that part… I will be the first person to say that CIA teaches you incredible everyday skills. And every time I stand face-to-face with a car salesman, I can’t help but laugh a little. Because they have no idea they are about to negotiate with a trained CIA operative. And they are about to lose… I negotiated a Nissan dealership in Venice, FL out of a beautifully kept, low mileage manual transmission 2015 Honda Fit! They started at $13,500… we ended at $11,400. The exhausted salesman accepted my final offer and then told me it was time to talk to financing. I pulled $11,500 in cash from my backpack and said, “I’ll take the change in $20 bills please…” I felt a little sad giving such a nice guy such a bad day. But you and I both know he does the same to plenty of good folks day-after-day. [When you know the spy rules to negotiation, you are unstoppable!]( And there will always be sales people who try to stand in your way. Don’t let them. Godspeed, #EverydaySpy P.S. - [Use spy skills to short-cut your way up the corporate ladder without getting caught with]( High-Income Crash-Course!]( Follow @EverydaySpy on Social Media! [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( [YouTube]( [Instagram]( Andrew Bustamante, Founder of EverydaySpy.com, is a former covert CIA Intelligence officer, decorated US Air Force Combat Veteran, and respected Fortune 500 senior advisor. Learn more from Andrew on his Podcast (The Everyday Espionage Podcast) and by following @EverydaySpy on your favorite social media platform. This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Don't want to receive these emails anymore? [Unsubscribe]( EverydaySpy, 411 Walnut St. #20309, Green Cove Springs, FL 32043