joninoc

I found the doc on the Nikon forum as doctorncamera. He's up to 300 posts looking for the perfect camera for automotive photography.

Pugnacious

Glad to see you back Ben.

You just touched on it. The reason California dealers even bother asking for a deposit is to get the customer to show good faith and to get the customer “thinking” they have bought a car (in other words to try and take them off the market). Most customers don’t know the law and the dealers use that fact to their advantage.

We also used to ask for a deposit to place someone on a waiting list to try and weed out those that were not really serious.

But at the end of the day, until the customer takes delivery (that includes paying for the vehicle, signing all the papers and physically driving the car off the lot) they can ask for and by law get back their full deposit in the State of California.

Deanski

You guys are BAD!!



Deanski

Deanski

I'm waiting for the rant on me one day....

Deanski or "Dr Shine".... "See that? That is ****... See this? This is Shine-o-la".

Deanski

Edgy01

As someone mentioned, I believe in California many dealers use the deposit amount to judge the intent of the potential buyer. When I first walked in to my dealership their really crapped salesman cited a $5M deposit. A couple months later (after that guy hit the road) my real salesman merely cited $1000 despite a weird color, etc. (I wanted to put the whole CAR on my AMEXCO but they baulked at that!).

OCBen

Dayum, you're good Marty!

I thought I had you guys fooled. Guess my vigorous defense of the poor fellow gave it away, huh?

Wow, can't slip anything past you guys!

OCBen

Hmmm, a $5 Million dollar deposit on a $120k car? Yeah, I'd say they're doing something right.

jhbrennan

While many use K to designate 1,000, M is also used - mille = latin for thousand and MM = 1,000 x 1,000 or 1,000,000. I've seen M and K used interchangeably.

OCBen

Maybe in some European or Latin American countries, but I've never seen it used here.

I find it hard to believe that the two could be interchangeable, since we're talking about two orders of magnitude in the difference -- a huge difference that could lead to serious errors if left to ambiguity in the meaning of the suffix.

You say you've seen M and K used interchangeably. Can you cite one such instance?

Mad_AL

People should just say K like everybody else, there is no need to be excentric, nothing to prove on a forum

jhbrennan

I didn't mean interchangeably in the same document. It might take me 1M searches (or is that 1K) to find you one such instance - not worth my time. I guess I've seen the designation enough to know that if someone told me OCBen had 10.5M posts I'd recognize that it was thousands not millions.

Vjgtrybno1

M was used before K - until kilobytes came along, everyone knew M meant 1000. Check out those roman numerals at the movies next time you're there. Make sure you park the 997 away from the crowd though.

MUSSBERGER

Dan we had a customer that used to put equipment(20k at most) on his Amex card routinely. We finally got wise and made the proper adjustments. I understand that he used to do the same same to the Cat and Komatsu dealers with some large ticket Items (mid six figures) just to get the points.

Steve (Mussberger)

AllanJ

+1

I was involved in the printing industry (back in the day) and we used M to signify 1000 labels and MM for one million.

Cheers,

Edgy01

Sorry guys! I work in millions all the time and I slipped that in!