i feel bad

fryup

Shook hands with a dealer the other day and made a verbal agreement to buy a car.

But browsing the web last night i saw the same model car in the north with a higher spec, lower milage and a year younger for nearly half the price...it was too good to ignore.

So this morning i phoned the dealer and told him i was pulling out ..he had a fit callin me all sorts..saying he had the car valeted and ready for me...i said i was sorry but i had to go for this other car..he just slamed the phone down on me.

At the time i didn't give a toss....but now this evening i feel kinda sorry for the guy:(

so should i feel bad..or is that the nature of the business??

DarkJager

He was trying to rip you off and you feel sorry for him?

Heroditas

Oh the poor dear had the car valeted for you. :rolleyes:

Good enough for him.

fryup

DarkJager wrote: »

He was trying to rip you off and you feel sorry for him?

but i shook hands with the guy...and he's a small time dealer

Feelgood

Fook that, ya snooze ya lose. I would have actually told him about the other motor and give him an opportunity to match the price maybe. Other than I wouldn't give a toss. It's your money at the end of the day, you can spend it were you like...

staker

did he rejig his price at all?
if he wanted to sell the car he would've.
i wouldn't be too bothered imo. business is business.

DarkJager

fryup wrote: »

but i shook hands with the guy...and he's a small time dealer

Just because you shook hands doesn't mean you owe him anything. If he's overpriced and a small time dealer, he'd really want to start looking at his prices before he goes to the wall.

Gran Hermano

How would you feel if you bought the southern reg car and knew everytime you drove it that you had paid more than you had to?

It's one thing throwing away cash during boom times but right now no one should be blamed for looking after their own interests.

Neilw

The dealer would have sold the car to someone else if they came in with cash, so I wouldn't worry...taste of their own medicine.

Feelgood

fryup wrote: »

but i shook hands with the guy...

But how do yo know he wasn't picking his arse that morning and didn't wash them after?

itisyeah

Absolutely have no regrets about doing that.
Verbal agreement isnt worth a thing.
I would imagine if he got a higher price after your verbal agreement he would not have hesitated sleeling it to another customer.

You made the right decision.

mike65

Dont feel bad, he's done enough deals to know it can happen. The timing stinks but thats all!

Anan1

fryup wrote: »

so should i feel bad..or is that the nature of the business??

Bit of both, really. I'd feel a bit bad too (I still believe in handshakes), but at the end of the day what were you going to do?

Comer1

Poor dealer, but with a little therapy, I'm sure he'll get over it.

as bad as I would have felt before I called him, the minute he verbally abused me and slammed down the phone would have been the same minute I realised I had made the right decision....

Type 17

You're a nice person in that you felt somewhat sorry for the guy, and if his price was only a little higher, you might go ahead with the deal, for the convenience of being able to go back to him if there were any issues, but if you can save nearly half the money, as you say, then you were right to call the deal off...

ahmed89

you should not feel sorry,you just changed your mind

LoveDucati2

Don't feel bad.

Now you know what he would have been like to deal with if you had any aftersale problems, best of luck with your new car.

fryup

maybe if i ...just do the good ol'oirish thing and.....buy him a pint it will all be forgotten about:)


and then sometime in the future he could valet my car:pac:

Type 17

fryup wrote: »

and then sometime in the future he could valet my car:pac:

I know you're joking, but if you did give it to him to valet, I'd check the brakes afterwards

scubagit

F**k 'im.
I phoned a dealer the other week to say I was on the way over to him with a deposit on a 04 Mazda 6. Said I would be with him by lunchtime (this was 10.45am). I arrived at the garage at 12.10 and he said he sold it 5 minutes earlier. Anyway I hit the roof at the time as the car was well priced €5,800 but needed a little attention tothe paint work which I was prepared to get done myself, a total waste of journey.
Any way I saw another on usedcarsni.com for the same money roughly (6k) in immaculate nick with full spec and full svc history.
Brought it home the following saturday and I'm chuffed with my purchase.

victor1

Would agree F*&k him, you in essence did nothing wrong just a better deal was to be had. 9.9976/10 dealers would not think twice about screwing you if they got 500e better offer on a car they had provisionally agreed to sell you -

Drummerboy08

Funny thing....

Someone was on here last week about a dealer doing that to her.... Saying it wasnt right that he sold it even tho they had a "verbal" agreement.

Unless you sign something, or pay a deposit its tough sh*t both ways.

qz

Surely his outburst to you and would negate any sort of (entirely understandable) feelings of guilt/pity you may have had for him? If that were me I'd name and shame.

maps and atlas

fryup wrote: »

so should i feel bad..or is that the nature of the business??

Don't feel bad - a dealer recently did a similar thing to me. Got a lot of quotes went with the best one and then got some cock and bull about being misquoted - dealer not getting new reg bonus, selling the car at a loss etc.. and he had to raise the quote.

Why not ask the dealer to match the offer.

Gumbo

any links to the 2 cars in question?

i assume you've allowed for travel and vrt etc etc to be factored into the equation.


its tough times as others have said, you need to be carefull where and how you spend your money at the moment.

DonJose

Why feel bad, that dealer would have sold the car if another customer came in, this recently happened to a poster, see link below. Also f'ing you off and slamming down the phone just shows you the kind of person this "dealer" is. Enjoy your newer, higher spec and cheaper car

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055459602

mikemac

It's not personal, it's just business
Enjoy your new car.

L-M

maps and atlas wrote: »

Don't feel bad - a dealer recently did a similar thing to me. Got a lot of quotes went with the best one and then got some cock and bull about being misquoted - dealer not getting new reg bonus, selling the car at a loss etc.. and he had to raise the quote.

Why not ask the dealer to match the offer.

Wait, what? Did you order a new car or something?

maps and atlas

Limerick man wrote: »

Wait, what? Did you order a new car or something?

Yeah - decided to go with a new car in the end. With new regs down by about 70% I reckoned that there are some deals to be had, particularly in areas where there has been bad news about job losses recently and areas most affected by shoppers going north - ie. border counties and the midlands. The best quotes were from these areas - 15 to 16% discounts vs Dublin 6 to 8% discounts. I'm quite sure that the dealer in question tried to call my bluff rather than making a genuine mistake.

L-M

maps and atlas wrote: »

Yeah - decided to go with a new car in the end. With new regs down by about 70% I reckoned that there are some deals to be had, particularly in areas where there has been bad news about job losses recently and areas most affected by shoppers going north - ie. border counties and the midlands. The best quotes were from these areas - 15 to 16% discounts vs Dublin 6 to 8% discounts. I'm quite sure that the dealer in question tried to call my bluff rather than making a genuine mistake.

What i meant was did you order a new car and then cancel it?