Earlier this week, the Ada location for America’s CarMart – a used car dealership group with over 150 locations across the country – shared a photo on Facebook of a recent car buyer posing with the new pre-owned vehicle that he’ll likely be paying off for the next seven years at 20% interest.
For the most part, it was the standard car dealership customer social media photo. It included the buyer, the salesperson, and the buyer’s brother – the person who referred him to the dealership – all happily posing in front of the vehicle.
It also included the litter of pit bull puppies the man used to pay his down payment.
Wait. What?
Listen, I’m not a fan of telling people what they should do with their own money and/or things of monetary value, but if the only down payment you can afford to pay is a litter of pit bulls, something tells me you should probably try saving a little more cash before making the purchase.