Negotiating advice please

Negotiating advice please

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TarquinMX5

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1,918 posts

79 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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I'm thinking of px'ing my MX5 Z-Sport, which is a sought-after limited edition, for a new MX5, one with the newly announced more powerful engine.

I'm after some advice from people who've successfully managed to get the best deal possible from a salesman (or saleswoman or whatever).

I heard on the radio this afternoon a view expressed by a Mr JC (no, not that Clarkson chap, or the other JC, but a Mr J Corbinn) who was stating that the best way is to 'take no deal off the table'.

I've never approached negotiations thay way before but I'm just asking the experts on here, would I be likely to get a great deal on my new MX5 if I tell the salesman, upfront, 'look, let's be quite clear, I'm not leaving the showroom without a deal. I must have the MX5 and I must have a deal'.

I've seen an advisor advertised, a Ms D'Abbott, who seems to work miracles with figures, and who has said it shouldn't cost more than about £250 for a new MX5. Does that sound possible, or is that some funny form of sums?

What are my chances of clinching the deal of the century?




No ideas for a name

2,160 posts

85 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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I think it helps if you go to the showroom looking like Steptoe.

stevensdrs

3,208 posts

199 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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HEHE. Very Good.

Dapster

6,866 posts

179 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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Make sure you spend 2 years discussing the deal with the dealer before revealing the details to your wife, who will almost certainly kick it out just out of principal. Also, despite the new MX5 initially looking like a great deal from that advert you saw on the side of a bus in 2016, it may end up costing you about £40bn more than you had budgeted for so make sure you can fit that into your monthly payments once you account for mortgage, bills etc.

Mercury00

4,098 posts

155 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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They won't care that yours is sought after, to them it's just another manky old MX5. Sell it on MX5oc instead.

AlexS_LDN

3,766 posts

63 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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TarquinMX5 said:
I'm thinking of px'ing my MX5 Z-Sport, which is a sought-after limited edition, for a new MX5, one with the newly announced more powerful engine.

I'm after some advice from people who've successfully managed to get the best deal possible from a salesman (or saleswoman or whatever).

I heard on the radio this afternoon a view expressed by a Mr JC (no, not that Clarkson chap, or the other JC, but a Mr J Corbinn) who was stating that the best way is to 'take no deal off the table'.

I've never approached negotiations thay way before but I'm just asking the experts on here, would I be likely to get a great deal on my new MX5 if I tell the salesman, upfront, 'look, let's be quite clear, I'm not leaving the showroom without a deal. I must have the MX5 and I must have a deal'.

I've seen an advisor advertised, a Ms D'Abbott, who seems to work miracles with figures, and who has said it shouldn't cost more than about £250 for a new MX5. Does that sound possible, or is that some funny form of sums?

What are my chances of clinching the deal of the century?
Negotiations may go on and on with some sort of deadlock... is there a financial Backstop that can help the process? Or come April, will you just keep the same Mazda?

Rick101

6,959 posts

149 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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Keep the old car.

The new one might seem shiny and wonderful but it's all marketing and bluster.

Byker28i

58,795 posts

216 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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but the new one would be much safer so would benefit the NHS significantly. I hear by £350m a week

Byker28i

58,795 posts

216 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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You could only have had it a year? expect to have lost a lot on it on depreciation.

GAjon

3,721 posts

212 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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Take a vote on it.
If you don’t like the result take another.

livinginasia

846 posts

109 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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Definitely get rid of it, then you won’t have the germans and the French telling you how to drive it !

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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I also listened to Corbyn and went into BMW today and asked how much for a 5 series. I then said listen pal, either give me a 10% discount, free car mats and a go on your wife or I'm gonna pay full price.


NickCQ

5,392 posts

95 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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TarquinMX5 said:
I've never approached negotiations thay way before but I'm just asking the experts on here, would I be likely to get a great deal on my new MX5 if I tell the salesman, upfront, 'look, let's be quite clear, I'm not leaving the showroom without a deal. I must have the MX5 and I must have a deal'.
I've found it works better if you walk in with a loaded gun, point it at your temple and say 'if you don't give me a great deal I'll shoot myself, then I'll shoot you!'

samoht

5,631 posts

145 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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TarquinMX5 said:
I heard on the radio this afternoon a view expressed by a Mr JC (no, not that Clarkson chap, or the other JC, but a Mr J Corbinn) who was stating that the best way is to 'take no deal off the table'.

I've never approached negotiations that way before but I'm just asking the experts on here, would I be likely to get a great deal on my new MX5 if I tell the salesman, upfront, 'look, let's be quite clear, I'm not leaving the showroom without a deal. I must have the MX5 and I must have a deal'.
You're right to be unconvinced. The key thing is that you need to keep your existing MX-5, that way you always have the option of walking away from the dealership if they won't offer you a good deal on the new car. The worst thing you could do would be to, say, sell your car first and promise the buyer they can pick it up on 29th March - that way you would be obliged to accept whatever the Mazda salesman offers you, or end up walking everywhere from April onwards! As long as you keep the status quo as a fallback, you should be ok either way.