Trade-in opinion

Generally you will always do better selling your car privately and negotiating the cash price of the new car. However your Insignia wouldn't have been a particularly desirable model and you could have been months dealing with low ball offers and time wasters.

It's very likely that any discount on the car you bought from them was applied to your trade-in value to inflate it. Otherwise they wouldn't make much profit on only asking 1500 more than they gave you for it against the 3 Series. Moving figures around is what dealers do.

Realistically you would have only gotten €4,000 for the Insignia privately it wouldn’t be a quick sale?

You might have gotten €1,000 or so off the asking price as a cash buyer.

I think you did okay, you didn’t have to deal with any time wasters and you got a lovely car to replace it with.

I’ve seen people do a lot worse with trade ins, you get people on here the odd time who get offered say €1,000 for their trade in whereas if they had of just came as cash buyers they probably could have negotiated €1,000 off the price anyway, thus practically giving their car away for free.

Assuming that 330e is competitively priced, sorry I don't know the market for them these days, you did Ok, in reality you prob got 3k for the insignia using the assumption that you could negotiate 1k off the 330e straight deal (may or may not be true)

On the same assumption the dealer will accept under 5k for the insignia, meaning you'd never get more than 4k privately selling it.

All in all, you possibly could have come out max 1k better off but that's unknown to the rest of us, I'd be fairly sure you did ok.

Enjoy your new car, it looks great, that's a great looking generation 3 series and a great car to drive too.

Every deal is different , if i car has been in stock a fair while - knocking a grand off isnt a bad idea . but if a dealer gets in a desirable car and has priced it right - it would be mad to knock 1,000 off price for 1st person who came to view it

I have got multiple 1000s off many vehicles in the last year or so by shopping around and playing deals off against each other. On about 10 vehicles in work. There's multiple sales people hounding a colleague looking at cars at the moment.

I'm seeing price drops on cars I'm following on done deal too, not really looking at buying them, just tracking some cars on the market out of interest.

The price is the price. Thats the way everyone I know works. If the car sits in stock, it gets price dropped. Or maybe a few hundred off the asking price for an easy sale. No business can sustain dropping thousands off any sale. A small dealer may sell 50 cars a year, a grand off each is €50,000 handed away. Multiply this by 10 for bigger dealers. It simply does not happen in general across the used car industry. Maybe with a trade in, they might decide to give more for it or get a better underwrite.