New BMW 5 Series Deals
Discussion
morbix said:
It's not pre reg. The build slots coming up are early march.
I thought it was a good deal but just wanted other people's thoughts on it.
Sounds like a cracking deal. Broadspeed are quoting £32289 for the same car and thats probably around 8% off which is usually as good as you can get on a mainstream popular model like thisI thought it was a good deal but just wanted other people's thoughts on it.
daemon said:
never seen that done before and it would become a can of worms if the buyer sold his own car on.
I thought it was almost universally accepted that dealers would often give you less for your swapper in order to give you a better price? Thats why cost to change is the important figure when trading in.Fox- said:
daemon said:
never seen that done before and it would become a can of worms if the buyer sold his own car on.
I thought it was almost universally accepted that dealers would often give you less for your swapper in order to give you a better price? Thats why cost to change is the important figure when trading in.A lot of people like to see a high trade in price for their car and cant get their heads around the fact its about the price of the car they are buying relative to the price they are getting for their own car.
If one dealer has a car at £11,000 and is offering a buyer £5K trade in meaning £6K to change, and another has the same car at £8000 but is only offering £2,500 for the trade in a lot of private buyers will balk at that because of the low trade in price - when they should in reality be looking at the cost to change.
But surely if that was the case you wouldnt get trade offering anything but 'book', which they do all the time.
If they've got a £10k car worth £9k that owes them £7k and Bob walks in with a £3000 car, they can...
a) Offer Bob £4000 for the car at sticker, Bob doesnt notice the car is £1k overpriced because you've offered him loads more than he expected for his swapper.
b) Offer Bob book and give him a discount of a grand.
c) Bid Bob sod all for his swapper but slice the screen price to make it so appealing Bob doesnt realise he's only got £naff all for his swapper
In theory all 3 generate the same profit, but can be tailored to what it is that the buyer perceives most important.
I thought this was hugely common?
If they've got a £10k car worth £9k that owes them £7k and Bob walks in with a £3000 car, they can...
a) Offer Bob £4000 for the car at sticker, Bob doesnt notice the car is £1k overpriced because you've offered him loads more than he expected for his swapper.
b) Offer Bob book and give him a discount of a grand.
c) Bid Bob sod all for his swapper but slice the screen price to make it so appealing Bob doesnt realise he's only got £naff all for his swapper
In theory all 3 generate the same profit, but can be tailored to what it is that the buyer perceives most important.
I thought this was hugely common?
Fox- said:
But surely if that was the case you wouldnt get trade offering anything but 'book', which they do all the time.
If they've got a £10k car worth £9k that owes them £7k and Bob walks in with a £3000 car, they can...
a) Offer Bob £4000 for the car at sticker, Bob doesnt notice the car is £1k overpriced because you've offered him loads more than he expected for his swapper.
b) Offer Bob book and give him a discount of a grand.
c) Bid Bob sod all for his swapper but slice the screen price to make it so appealing Bob doesnt realise he's only got £naff all for his swapper
In theory all 3 generate the same profit, but can be tailored to what it is that the buyer perceives most important.
I thought this was hugely common?
(a) and (b) are the ones used pretty much all the time.If they've got a £10k car worth £9k that owes them £7k and Bob walks in with a £3000 car, they can...
a) Offer Bob £4000 for the car at sticker, Bob doesnt notice the car is £1k overpriced because you've offered him loads more than he expected for his swapper.
b) Offer Bob book and give him a discount of a grand.
c) Bid Bob sod all for his swapper but slice the screen price to make it so appealing Bob doesnt realise he's only got £naff all for his swapper
In theory all 3 generate the same profit, but can be tailored to what it is that the buyer perceives most important.
I thought this was hugely common?
With (c) do you think that a dealer will say to a customer we'll sell you our car for £5,050 and give you £50 for yours that even the thickest customer wouldnt
i) say 'duh, my cars worth more than that'
ii) sell their trade in to their mate and say to the dealer, 'ok i'll buy your car at £5,050'.
and how will the customer feel any other than robbed when they see their car on the forecourt next week for say, £4,500?
PLUS how would the dealer explain to other non trade in customers that they cant get that level of discount?
The scenarios for getting the trade in for sod all tend to be a variance on (a) when the customers car is worth maybe £1000. The dealer can make it look like they're giving the customer £1000 for their car but in actual fact be giving them nothing.
Edited by daemon on Sunday 22 January 19:23
Kudos said:
Are you trading something in? Is he giving you a crap price for that hence the larger "discount"?
To answer the question, I am looking to trade in my Z4M. It's on 2008 plate, 36,000 miles on the clock, sat nav etc. He has offered 13,500 which isn't great but a lot more than Audi offered against an A6 (12,300). morbix said:
Kudos said:
Are you trading something in? Is he giving you a crap price for that hence the larger "discount"?
To answer the question, I am looking to trade in my Z4M. It's on 2008 plate, 36,000 miles on the clock, sat nav etc. He has offered 13,500 which isn't great but a lot more than Audi offered against an A6 (12,300). Gassing Station | BMW General | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff