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haggling with car dealers

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    #32
    -Chris-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,035 ✭✭✭✭-Chris-


    Anan1 wrote: »
    While often true in practice, this is not true in principle. What's important is not where you're standing but how the seller percieves you. Turning up in a showroom is to some extent an indicator of serious intent, but it's only one indicator. With experience, it is quite possible to extract the maximum available discount from most sellers by phone.

    a) I don't know any salespeople who would give their bottom-line price over the phone

    b) I'm presuming a certain lack of experience anyway on the part of the OP by virtue of the fact that he's started a thread about it...

    But I'm just giving my opinion and limited experience, ymmv.


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    #33
    --amadeus--
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,096 ✭✭✭--amadeus--


    I'm with the rest, face to face is far better. I've been asked about discounts on private sales over the phone and I won't even name numbers. Why would a dealer commit themselves. And in general you negotiate on the basis of teh car in front of you - if you haven't seen it how can you haggle?

    When I bought the Jag in the UK I had an envelope full of cash in my pocket. The dealer dropped a certain amount but wasn't budging. So I put the money on the roof of the car.

    He caved and the deal was done! Something about the smell of crisp £50 notes that car salesmen find hard to resist... :D


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    #34
    Anan1
    Registered Users Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    AudiChris wrote: »
    a) I don't know any salespeople who would give their bottom-line price over the phone.
    They wouldn't most of the time. If they genuinely feel that they're close to closing a deal though, they almost always will.
    AudiChris wrote: »
    b) I'm presuming a certain lack of experience anyway on the part of the OP by virtue of the fact that he's started a thread about it...
    Me too, i'm not for an instant suggesting that the OP attempt this, i'm just making the point that there is a better way than flying to the UK with a wad of cash and an open mind...
    AudiChris wrote: »
    But I'm just giving my opinion and limited experience, ymmv.
    Me too, aren't we all?:)


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