On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:44:00 -0800 (PST), harry wrote:

On Dec 25, 11:54*pm, "
wrote:
On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 08:18:32 -0500, "Ed Pawlowski" wrote:
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"harry" wrote
There is no such thing as a zero loan. *Somewhere along the line
someone is paying that interest money. If someone offers you a zero
interest loan it means the price on the product has been upped to
cover it. You are a very credulous person if you can't see that. *You
don't get anything for nothing. *Time to shop somewhere else.

Typical offer is either a 0% loan or a rebate of $2500 or so. * Cash is
still king

That's typical for cars but zero interest loans on other items are quite
common (as in, ubiquitous), with no alternate rebate offers.

There won't be if you don't ask. Especially these days. Dickering
it's called in your parlance I believe.

Irrelevant. It's usually not the retailer offering the financing deal. You
can try to squeeze that buffalo all you want but you won't get anything out of
it.

"Dickering" is what you would call it, harry. "Haggling" would be more common
on this side of the pond.

Only the stupid don't ask these days. If the answer's "No", go
elsewhere.

Fair enough. Go elsewhere.