Hagglers For Hire: Even in this market, finding car bargains can be tricky. Enter: the car broker

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As a serial entrepreneur, Brian Valente figured he knew how to land a good deal and that the $19,000 he negotiated for a new Honda Element (only $100 over the dealer invoice) was just that. But that was before the Sherman Oaks, Calif., businessman ran his bargain by Oren Weintraub, a local car buyer's agent, or car "concierge," who said the price could be shaved even further. And Weintraub wasn't kidding - snaring the same car for $2,000 below invoice from a different dealer. "There's no way I could have negotiated that deal," says a floored Valente.