Inside the Minds of Car Dealers--Review and Giveaway!

Inside the Minds of Car Dealers--How to Buy Your Next Car Without Fear by Ray Lopez.
ISBN 978-1-58985-156-6
Five Star Publications

NEWS RELEASE: Retired Car Salesman Launches ‘Car Buying in the New Economy’ Consumer Education Campaign

Thirty-year car selling veteran and author of Inside the Minds of Car Dealers – How to Buy Your Next Car without Fear, Ray Lopez launches consumer awareness campaign to teach savings tactics, and confident car buying practices. Read the full article here.


 
My personal review:  I actually found Inside the Minds of Car Dealers to be an very interesting and informative read.
118 pages, consisting of 23 chapters. Chapters are all short, sweet, and to the point.
I love how Ray calls himself a "schmuck" throughout the book. And, because of being a schmuck for 30 years, he was prompted to write this book and let us all in on the car salesman "secrets".
Some of the things he mentions throughout the books you've heard for years about a car salesman. Some of those things you think have only just been made up and portrayed in the movies to make them look bad. Bad news....it's not just in the movies.
I found the information on all of the information you can find online to be very interesting. I had no idea there was so much information to be found online....at least not free.
I can now say that if and when I am ready and able to go to a car lot and buy a vehicle, I will be prepared before going! Thanks Ray for all the great advice.

Since my blog deals a lot with coupons and savings, I asked Ray to include answers to questions comparing buying a car to using coupons. Here are the questions and the answers:

Visit Ray's Blog:  http://www.raythesalesguy.com/blog



Let's move on to the giveaway! Ray Lopez has graciously offered the chance for one of my blog readers to win a copy of his book.

Rules:
Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.
Giveaway begins Thursday May 12, 2011 and ends Thursday May 26, 2011 at 7 pm CST.
Winner will be chosen using random.org.
Winner will have 48 hours to contact me with mailing address or another winner will be chosen.
I must have a way to contact you, so if necessary, leave that in one of your comments.
Please leave a separate comment for each entry.


Ways to earn entries:

***Visit Ray's fan page on facebook "liking" the fan page is optional due to questionable facebook policies.

**Follow Marsha's Spot with google friend connect

**Follow me on networked blogs

**Subscribe to my blog by email. (3 entries)

**"like" Marsha's Spot on facebook (2 entries)

**Friend connect with me on facebook

**Vote for me On the Fence

**Spread the word about this giveaway. You can do this in your own blog, on facebook, on twitter, in a message board, anywhere! This can be done up to 4 times during the duration of the giveaway for a total of 4 entries. Comments to include the URL where I will find the post.

**Place my button on your blog or website (3 entries) Include URL in the comment showing where it's placed.

Good luck to all! 

Disclaimer:  I was sent a copy of Inside the Minds of Car Dealers by the PR Contact for Ray the Sales Guy Lopez for the purpose of my review.  I was not compensated for my review and all opinions of the book are my own.   The copy of the book for the winner is also being provided.