WWYD - new car buying

[firehose]

I'm after a car in a particular colour combo which, it turns out, is out of stock everywhere. Factory orders only, cars arrive Christmas or so. It's not German unobtanium.

In my search for the colour I've been ringing around dealers across the land to get a quick delivery. Through getting qualified and having productive chats with around half a dozen dealers before finding out they had no actual stock, I got to a good deal. There are deals amongst all but this one was a bit better.

So given it's a 3 month wait I thought I'll go with local dealer, and they gave me a price which is 1100 more than the best deal, albeit they offer 2 services included which has a monetary value of around 600.

The negotiated deal included oem mats (!)

So I asked the local dealer if they would do 500 off to get near the other dealer. To be fair they came back and said yes, but that the deal would not include manufacturer mats, it would be dealer mats. I responded saying I like original equipment, will sign if they go with original deal including manufacturer mats.

They replied no, the cost of the mats to them is 50, and it's only an extra quid a month on the PCP.

Now, a quid is neither here nor there, but it's the principal, I think it's a bit strange they could throw the deal for the sake of 50. I realise this cuts both ways!

What does the hive mind reckon 😂

[Trevor555]

I've sold cars for 37 years, on , and off.

When you've given someone the best price you can do, and they keep pushing, you have to draw the line and just sell it to someone else.

Surely it's better to buy local?

Even if it's a bit more expensive.

[Alex Z]

You are after a specific very hard to find car, you've located one with a good discount and you don't want to buy it because the mats they are throwing in aren't official manufacturer ones?

You'll spend more than fifty quid's worth of mental energy on this thread

[firehose]

Alex Z said:

You'll spend more than fifty quid's worth of mental energy on this thread

I know, I know. I think if they came back and said ok we can go halfway I'd probably have said ok fair enough. It's the specificity of downgrading the mats to boggo ones that's triggered me