Price Negotiation

[kste]

Hi I am going to be spending about a year in Germany and want to buy a car - a Ford S-Max about one year old. I am looking on Autoscout.eu and found several good cars for what seem to be reasonable prices - around Euro 30,000 for a well optioned year old car with less than 20,000 km. My question is how much of a discount off the published price should I expect? I live in New Zealand and here we would never pay the advertised price but I am not sure about Germany.

Can anyone advise please? Also is that a good place to buy cars as it seems to link to most dealers?
Finally, should I expect to get winter tyres included with a second hand car?

Thanks!

[kste]

Hi thanks, I am buying from a dealer. I am just wondering what kind of amount I should be going for? at least 10% I would have thought if not more. It is not a rare car and one looks as good as the other I would have thought.

[kste]

Hi thanks everyone.
Another question(s)

1/ Is there any way to check if a car I am interested in has had an accident? Do dealers have to disclose this?
2/ How do I go about getting insurance? Does the dealer help with this?
3/ How do I handle the winter tyres? Does the dealer keep them for me? Is there a charge? I am going to be living in an area that is unlikely to be close to the dealer so do I get a local shop to store them?

Thanks

[kste]

Hi, quick update, made some offers on some cars at suggested discounts and one dealer came back with a price that was higher than the advertised price which I thought was a bit of laugh! It just occurred to me that perhaps prices advertised on autoscout etc might not include VAT. Would this be right or is an advertised price inclusive of VAT?