Car salesmen from hell

Car salesmen from hell

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jayemm89

4,039 posts

130 months

Monday 12th December 2016
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Not a salesman from hell but I recently helped my Dad find a new car. Looked at a few dealerships for him, we narrowed the replacement down to two options.

Had one of the dealerships phone up this morning "Oh just wanted to know if we can help"

"No thanks, we're good"

"Oh, why's that?"

"Well, you offered £30k less as a trade-in than a competing dealer, that didn't really help your cause, especially when you're a known trader for high price examples of exactly the kind of car we're P/Xing"

"Oh, OK. Thanks"

CoolHands

18,661 posts

195 months

Monday 12th December 2016
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30 thousand less? That's a bit cheeky.

jayemm89

4,039 posts

130 months

Monday 12th December 2016
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Yes, just a little bit. I'm not one of these people that expects car dealers to be charities, but five minutes through the classifieds and you get a rough idea of what cars are worth. And you know what kind of margins dealers are going for.

It didn't help they were trying to act like they were doing us a favour. Oh well. Cost them a £180k sale and a nice p/x. Never mind.

JimmyConwayNW

3,065 posts

125 months

Tuesday 13th December 2016
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CoolHands said:
30 thousand less? That's a bit cheeky.
What kind of car was that?


In response to what kind of margins are they going for - Good strong huge ones by the sound of it biggrin