Actually buying off the auction on trade me is a good way, as we can go check out the car first, hubby is a mechanical engineer and knows a lot about cars, if we find one that is really worth looking at we get our mechanic to check it over for 35 dollars, well spent, obviously we don't do that too often, only if it really seems a good one.

No i won't get caught up in the bidding, it is easily done though, but i set a limit and that is it,once it hits that we are done.