Exactly right... No way a dealer gives you fair value for things like that, because they want to profit as much as they can...
But if a car is worth more than the clunker trade in, and they can profit $3K by reselling it they would buy it to turn around and sell it
Absolutely, they would, but the program says they have to smoosh the car as part of the program, so I guess you wouldn't label such cars as "clunkers", instead "gas guzzler", different deal all together.