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Message:: [QUOTE="Kasia, post: 2942475, member: 31533"]Also... always remember if there is a national emergency or something in news that gets the country pre-occupied (perhaps like Bush going into Iraq in 2003, the Challenger disaster, whatever), that is a great time to go both car shopping and shopping on eBay, because most people stop their normal activities and get glued to the TV or whatever for a few days until they absorb it. I went shopping for a car in 2003 at the start of that war and the dealership had only had like 4 people stop in all day. They are sales driven and were more than willing to give me a much better deal than they would have if they had a normal day. Because they could not afford to pass up a sales. That is another reason that you go car shopping on the last day of the month because as soon as that day is over, they have their sales for the month gone and dealerships sometimes can't get in new inventory if they haven't sold a certain number of vehicles in a month or a quarter. Ebay can be good at hard times, as well as when there are snowstorms in much of the country or blackouts, because that keeps a lot of the competition for bidding at the last moment away if they have not already put in a bid and made it their top bid.[/QUOTE]