Originally Posted by USNews

Anil Nair, a recent college grad from Houston, bought a 2006 Infiniti G35 last month after price-shopping at Edmunds and visiting Internet chat rooms, including one called g35driver.com , which brimmed with the wisdom of recent buyers. He even found three other people there willing to negotiate with him as a group. "I hear horror stories about people going to the dealership and getting worked over by salesmen," he says. Well, not anymore: "There's just no way they can screw you because of all this information you have." Nair sent E-mails to a half-dozen dealers in Texas; when one offered him 3 percent over invoice–or about $38,500 (sticker was closer to $41,000)–he walked in the next day and said he'd sign for 2 percent. "The actual time spent talking was five minutes," he says. Deal sealed.