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...LOWBALL YOUR TRADE-IN. This is the sixth month in a row that used-car prices have gone up, according to CNW data. So when you head to the dealer, have an idea of what your car is worth. But don't count on Blue Book value; instead go to your Sunday newspaper's classified section and see what other folks are getting for their six-year-old Mustangs with 40,000 miles...
NEGOTIATE FINANCING. The 0% financing offers are tempting, but you may do better by bargaining hard, taking a big rebate and looking for low-rate financing elsewhere. Go to your dealer armed with a good financing offer--you can check Bankrate.com for average rates. Ask the dealer to beat that rate and run three pricing scenarios: one that shows monthly payments at 0% with no rebate, another that shows payments at your agreed-upon rate with the rebate factored in and, last, a lease based on how much you're willing to put down. Act now. Like autumn leaves, these...
...halcyon days might be numbered. The book industry has launched 300 raids on pavement sellers in the past two years, according to Das of the publishers' association. Kumar laments that because of the raids, he's been forced to become an honest dealer?with disastrous results for his bottom line: his daily turnover has dropped from about $85 to about $5. "I wouldn't say the problem is under control, but we're fighting back now," says Penguin's Sukumar...
...Before Jing could be executed, however, fortune handed him a reprieve. Lanzhou police arrested a dealer who admitted that he had helped officers set Jing up for a drug rap. Jing won a second trial?and the real story came out. The arresting officers had planted the heroin. They had coerced Jing's confession by shocking him with electric batons and hanging him by his handcuffed wrists until "the blood poured down my arms," Jing testified during his trial. By the time of his release last January, the cab driver had spent more than a year on death...
...knew it would be a shambles," said one prominent hotelier, who asked to remain anonymous. A local art dealer sniffed, "Carnival is in the blood. You can't conjure it up on a word processor," adding that comparisons with Brazil were ludicrous...