About us
With over 23 years of experience negotiating over 7800 new vehicles, we save you the immeasurable hours required to negotiate with multiple dealers. We prevent you from having to go through the negotiating process, to help you avoid the haggling, tricks of the trade, and high-pressure closing tactics dealers use. Simply put, we give you the peace of mind of knowing you got the lowest price available when you were in the market for a new vehicle. We don’t take any compensation from a dealer, so you know we work for YOU, the buyer. Our website offers tools and advice to help you research, price, and compare new vehicles. But our main service ACTUALLY NEGOTIATES your new vehicle for you. As an added bonus, our customers are completely anonymous to all the dealers in our report until YOU choose to contact them. No unwanted phone calls or emails from dealers who participated in the quoting process. Some services require you to give contact information to a dealer to get a quote. We value our customer’s privacy, and never gives any info to the dealer about the customer other than the year, make, model, and style of vehicle the customer wants shopped. As experts on vehicles, we are happy to offer you a free phone consultation to help whittle down the choices of vehicles to consider once we get some parameters from you. This can drastically cut down on the time you spend test driving vehicles, and lead to higher satisfaction with your new vehicle. To summarize: • We work for YOU, not the dealer • No haggling/negotiating • We’ll work with ALL dealers nationally • Guaranteed LOWEST pricing in your area • You're anonymous to the dealers • Free phone consultation. This takes the risk out of using our service, since we have to justify our fee every time we do our job. Flat fee price to negotiate a new vehicle: $249 We're an expert contributor to Angie's List as well! See all our archived columns - https://www.angieslist.com/author/mike-rabkin.htm
Business highlights
Services we offer
You choose the basic make, model, and style of new vehicle you wish to purchase, and place your order with us. We contact at least the nearest 4 dealers to the zip code you specify, and commit each dealer to a specific profit margin for a period of 2-4 weeks. You’ll receive a report outlining each dealer’s commitment, and a worksheet that will allow you to see each dealer's bottom line.
Services we don't offer
Used vehicle negotiations.
Amenities
Eco Friendly Accreditations
Yes
Accepted Payment Methods
- Visa
- Discover
- MasterCard
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Because I had hired Michael 3
years ago and had been very pleased with his service, I naturally called him
again to help me with this purchase after that lease was up..
But unlike three years ago, there really was NO SERVICE AT
ALL. He rushed me when I was ordering the service but took my credit card
info. There really was not much more conversation except to have him fill out
what I wanted in the car which he did reluctantly wanting me to do it from an
online form.
After nine days I still had not received the report. I had
requested that he find out about the comparable buy out rate. But he never
responded to that email. I did get a link to a report, most of which he took
from Edmonds.com and states that in the report. But I did not understand the
directions on it about calculating etc. I explained to him that I have a
learning disability and one of the reasons I am hiring him is to have him
guide me through the purchase. When I
emailed him right away that the report is like Greek to me. I don?t know what
to do with hit, he never responded. I sent three more emails over between Nov
24th and Dec 1st and he never responded to any of them.
He wrote on the report that he can be contacted by email. However, he failed
to mention that he will not respond to any email you send him. I requested a
refund in the last email and of course he did not respond to that either. I
am disputing the charge with my credit card company. He charged $249 and
provides zero service for that. It is obscene.
Do not pay him anything unless you have $249 to throw out.
He used to offer a service. But at this time it is only a charge and he does
nothing else but send a pre-prepared report on the type of car, information
one can easily find online. I wanted some personal guidance. He never even
responded to anything.
These are the emails I sent him to which he never
responded:
Nov 15
to car to finish
Mike
Please inquire whether the lease will be based on the
buy rate in your price of each that you get. If it's the cheapest and the
lease is based on something else then the information will be misleading.
Thanks for considering.
Nov 27
to car to finish
Hi Michael,
When will report be ready? My insurance is up dec
1st and lease is up dec 6th. Hope to get the new car in month of November.
Would appreciate. thanks
Nov 27
to car to finish
Michael
Thanks for getting the report to me. I just don't
understand any of it. Can't see differences in dealers bec can't understand
what it is saying. Help!
Nov 30
to car to finish
You did not respond to my request for help three days
ago. Hiring you seems to have been a
waste of money.
You were much more there for me three years ago when I
hired you for much less money.
Your quality of service seems very diminished. I had
told you I was learning disabled and don't do well with written reports.
You did not get back to me and never explained anything
verbally as I needed.
Most important, I asked you to find out if they use the
buy out rate in a lease. You did not do that as far as I can see and did
not even respond to that request. This was a total waste of money. I am so
disappointed.
I would like a refund.
Dec 1
to car to finish
You have not responded to even one of my emails. I wrote
that I needed assistance understanding your report. You were so helpful
three years ago. But at this time I feel I threw my $249 away for you were
not help at all.
I don't know your level of integrity at this time for
you really gave me no service. Perhaps you have a personal problem keeping
you from your work. You wrote in the email that you can be contacted by
email but you did not write that you will not respond to any of the emails.
In light of the fact that I never got a response from
you, I will be putting reviews of this experience online, Angies List etc
as I did the first time I used you but these will be quite unfavorable.
I would refrain from that if I got a refund. But since
you have not responded to ANYTHING you likely will not do that either.
I will wait for 24 more hours to put the unfavorable
reviews up. If I get refunded by then I will just forget it. But if not,
then I need to express my great disappointment in some way.
In Summary
Car to Finish never responded to anything. only
conversation was his taking my credit card information. that was the last
I heard from him.
He later sent an email that he did not receive my emails. But I got no mailer demon or any notice of that and I sent the emails to his email address from which he sent me emails.
Mike is always courteous, professional and easy to work with. I highly recommend From Car to Finish!
We would very much recommend to anyone to seek out From Car to Finish for their next automotive purchase!
To any future car buyers, I highly recommend you use Car to Finish.
I first met Mike in 2012 or 2013 at a networking event. I was told by a mutual friend last year that she had benefited by using Mister Rabkin's services not once, but twice. I found Michael to be quite knowledgeable. In my case, he was helpful because I don't buy new cars every day. In fact, this vehicle is only the third new car that I have bought. Mike will give you as much help as you need. I did not really know what I wanted beyond the basics, and Mike walked me through the process. The whole event was painless and I owe a lot to Mike Rabkin.
Mike is very knowledgeable and took the time to cut through all the info and narrow down great choices for me. Saves my clients many hours and a few thousand dollars on the best deal out there. He is a great personal shopper on cars and knows where the best deals are.
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