What kind of car-shopper are you?

FiestaST

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WHICH SHOPPER ARE YOU?

The excitement of buying a new car can lead to impulse buying.

Check out the list below and work out what type of car-shopper you are:

Value shopper: You want a quality deal at a good price.

Image shopper: You want your car to match your image.

Lifestyle shopper: You buy products that suit your lifestyle.

Methodical shopper: The car-buying journey takes you a couple months.

Safety-conscious shopper: Safety features are a priority for you and your family.

http://www.wheels24.co.za/Wheels4Women/News/What-kind-of-car-shopper-are-you-20150805

I'm a Value shopper through & through & you okes?
 

ToxicBunny

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Methodical Shopper combined with a stingy fscker that could pass as a Value Shopper I suppose.
 

TehStranger

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Lifestyle shopper: You buy products that suit your lifestyle.

^^ This is me. I try to buy purpose-built cars that can also double up as a method of getting from A to B.
 

gfmalan

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Lifestyle - I like to pitch at the dealership with pt-short and old t-shirt, sometimes bare feet or plakkies. It always amazes me how the sales guys avoid you.

The look on their faces is priceless when you leave with a new car 2 hours later...
 

Sonic2k

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I buy cheap... I buy a car that will be the cheapest and trade that off against how much kark it will give me and/or how likely it is to break down at the roadside...

I feel very little for cars... they are a pain in the backside and money-suckers.
 

TEXTILE GUY

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I am a well informed shopper ..... I do some research on the vehicle, test drive it, speak to other owners, and then ............. the wife chips in and tells me what i want.
 

supersunbird

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WHICH SHOPPER ARE YOU?

The excitement of buying a new car can lead to impulse buying.

Check out the list below and work out what type of car-shopper you are:

Value shopper: You want a quality deal at a good price.

Image shopper: You want your car to match your image.

Lifestyle shopper: You buy products that suit your lifestyle.

Methodical shopper: The car-buying journey takes you a couple months.

Safety-conscious shopper: Safety features are a priority for you and your family.

http://www.wheels24.co.za/Wheels4Women/News/What-kind-of-car-shopper-are-you-20150805

I'm a Value shopper through & through & you okes?

I guess I'm all of the bolded and then also a practical buyer.

Value: Do I really want to pay R30 000 to R50 000 more for some colour coded mirrors and door handles and mostly other useless crap? No way José. Need to last me a good while, like 10 years?

Lifestyle shopper: Well, to go outdoorsy one needs some ground clearance and its actually go its uses on urban road (badly designer shopping centre exits and bad speedbumps and potholes -a SUV should have low profile tyres, the move rubber compared to rim ,the better) and can tow my trailer and maybe later mini caravan.

Methodical shopper: this but on FFW, a week more than enough time to make a list of what you need and what meets that best. Which of the models have NA petrol engines (unless they give me a warranty on the turbo for 10 years, they can stuff it and diesel? Shove those injectors up your derrière and it always has a turbo). Which have 108pcd 4-stud wheel as my trailer is fitted with, for wheel commonality (can have 3 full size spare wheels for those long dirt road trips), which has the adequate rating for towing said trailer.

Safety-conscious shopper: Important if you are going to transport loved ones frequently and often for long distances, as many airbags as possible.
 

Fazda

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I am totally impulsive, but I only buy what I want to buy.

Once went out to buy Hot Cross buns ( day before Good Friday), and came home with a new car, plus the buns! :p

That was back in the day when Wesbank guaranteed an answer within 15 minutes - it would be totally impossible today.
 

Jet-Fighter7700

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value for money,
buying a car is like buying any white goods; like a oven,microwave ect....

spend as little as possible for as much as possible;
 

AstroTurf

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Methodical shopper:

Walk through many shops, drive the things, try the things, google the things, read reviews, hellopeter and many other stuff before deciding then wait a bit more for best available price.
 

Mike Hoxbig

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I want good value, but at the same time if I'm forking out the amount of money that cars are going for these days, I also want to make sure that it's not something that every second person has...
 

HavocXphere

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The kind that avoids cars like the plague - they just steal your money. :p

As for the list - a bit of all of them. Seems like the most sensible approach.
 
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