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New vs. Used Cars

John Cooper

Spring is right around the corner which makes a lot of us think of spring cleaning, out with the old and in with the new.  And for some of us that may mean a new car or just a newer car, which our next guest says can bring about a common car buyers dilemma: “Should I buy a new car or used car?”.

Mike Switzer interviews John Cooper, a certified financial planner with Greenwood Capital in Greenwood, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.