Buying a brand new Ram 1500 pickup is not cheap. In fact, you can quickly spend up to $50,000 with just a few upgrades. If you plan on purchasing a 2018 Ram pickup truck, you are not likely to find anything under $30,000. If you are on a budget and in need of a Ram 1500 pickup, a great option is to buy used.
Buying a used Ram 1500 pickup truck is a lot easier than it once was. Prior to 2000, anyone looking to purchase a used "Dodge" Ram pickup truck had to look in a local newspaper in the classified ads or drive around and see what was sitting in front yards. Going for a Sunday drive truly meant driving around and seeing if anyone within 100 miles had a used car or truck for sale. You might drive all the way from Clinton to Raleigh in hopes of finding what you are looking for.
Remember, there was no Craigslist and no car dealerships had a website. You could call your local Dodge dealership but their inventory was limited and you had to go on the lot to start the negotiation process. Things are much different today. You can do almost everything online.
A great option is to start your research on Craigslist. There are dozens of Craigslist locations in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Do not limit your research to simply Eastern NC. While it is a great place to start your shopping, it would be smart to look at the prices in Charlotte, Asheville, Wilmington and even Richmond, Virginia. You will want to get a range so you can start negotiating with the person or dealership selling the Ram pickup truck.
Also note that you can email sellers on Craigslist from an anonymous email address. You can make up a fake email address on Gmail or Yahoo and ask some relevant questions. You can also sign up for sales and deals at local dealerships with an email address that you don't check all the time. I would never suggest using the email address you have on your phone. You are likely to get all kinds of emails that you do not want over the course of time.
Once you have scoured the Internet and have communicated with a few for sale by owner options you are ready to come up with the right price for you. You can then go to dealerships, used car lots or anywhere in which you can purchase a used Ram 1500 pickup truck. You may also want to take someone along that is very good "under the hood". You never know what some of these pickup trucks have been through.
No comments:
Post a Comment