Ranty rantness...
May. 13th, 2007 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
herveusWe went to the Bright Hills event yesterday. You know, the one titled "Return of the Merchants of Venice". Well, there sure were a number of quality merchants, including at least three who came down from the East Kingdom (Thorny Rose, Poison Pen, Fabric Dragon) on the (reasonable) expectation that there shoppers would show up. They didn't. Traffic was pretty much dead pretty much all day, and that didn't seem to matter whether you were inside or outside by the list field. When gross sales don't come up to expenses for an event 60 miles from home, it really sucks. Rocks through a soda straw suckage. From the remarks about numbers of fighters for the various martial activities, I sense that it was likely a general lack of attendees. Blarg.
Meanwhile, move to Sunday.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
killerbunnie007 has decided that his Ford Bronco is painful to refuel, especially as often as it needs it. 5.8 liters of V-8 suck petrol worse than the comparable engine in our monster Chevy van (of the cursed maintenance history this year).
He's moved with commendable alacrity on lining up a car loan and looking at things like used Honda Civics, Toyota Corollas, and Nissan Sentras. Heck, he could even consider new vehicles as well.
Today, we went over to Carmax to examine a 2001 Honda Civic that looked interesting. The only thing wrong with the car is the price, but Carmax "doesn't haggle". This model yielded "interesting" findings on the NADA and Kelley used car price guides. NADA thought the car should retail for about $7500 (NADA is consistently lower than Kelley), while Kelley thinks $10,100 is more where it ought to be. Carmax thought that $11,100 was more like it. Too bad for them.
Meanwhile, move to Sunday.
killerbunnie007 has decided that his Ford Bronco is painful to refuel, especially as often as it needs it. 5.8 liters of V-8 suck petrol worse than the comparable engine in our monster Chevy van (of the cursed maintenance history this year).He's moved with commendable alacrity on lining up a car loan and looking at things like used Honda Civics, Toyota Corollas, and Nissan Sentras. Heck, he could even consider new vehicles as well.
Today, we went over to Carmax to examine a 2001 Honda Civic that looked interesting. The only thing wrong with the car is the price, but Carmax "doesn't haggle". This model yielded "interesting" findings on the NADA and Kelley used car price guides. NADA thought the car should retail for about $7500 (NADA is consistently lower than Kelley), while Kelley thinks $10,100 is more where it ought to be. Carmax thought that $11,100 was more like it. Too bad for them.
