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On this next post, OP works at a car dealership and someone tries to buy a car.

At the most, I only have $700 to put down on a car and I have my Kia to trade in.

Do you owe anything on your Kia? Yeah, like $4,500. I just need a reliable car. I'm a single mother.

I'm not picky. I can try to work something out. We have a 2005 Buick Lasab and a 2001

Camry Ellie. Both are good reliable cars. We also have a 2001 Ford Escape that came in.

Do any of those have leather or a sunroof? The Lasab does, actually. Oh no, I can't be in a Buick.

Do you guys have a Lexus or Mercedes SUV in that price? No, not for $5,000.

I thought that you were just looking for something safe and reliable and affordable.

Yeah, but I googled pictures of those cars and I just can't. What about this Mercedes that I

just linked to you? Do you have that? That car is like $15,000. So you can't make it less expensive

to help me out. I'm a single mother of two trying to get something decent. And down in the comments,

we have this story from Temperature Moore. Oh man. So the company I work for is raffling off a new

Jeep for our big fundraiser for the year. We're a non-profit disability advocacy agency.

I've had not one, but three different people message our company's Facebook page and ask if we

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