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main dealers

  • 22-10-2007 10:35pm
    #1
    old boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭


    went into a main dealer ford as i have often dealt with the head of sales, a family member has a 13 vetra saloon mint 1 owner, + 4k in cash and fancied a focus, i was told i would get a call in 1 hour, but that the vetra would not be a great car for them to take in still no call back 13 hours later.


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  • #2
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    <sarcasm>terrible altogether like customers who promise they buy caar and then dont or tell stories about car having no damage and then it has</sarcasm>

    Bottom line, buying cars is no different to buying TV's. You get asshole customers and asshole salespeople. That's life. What never fails to amaze me are the people who keep returning to the bad places, and expect moaning to change the attitudes there, if someone doesn't want your money in the first place, why go back there/complain in the hopes of changing their mind and closing the deal? Wouldn't you rather go somewhere else?

    The subject title is also bizarre, this is something that happens in every retail sector, everywhere in the country. It's hardly unique to Main Dealers.


  • #3
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Oh, you're bound to say that Ned !


    ;)


  • #4
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Oh, you're bound to say that Ned !

    Shock Horror ;)


  • #5
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    What is a 13 vetra, anyway? Sounds a bit sale-proof to me.


  • #6
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,100 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Whatever a 13 Vetra is I'd say the garage just doesn't want to have the hassle of selling it on. So they saved themselves the money of calling you to say they don't want it. As Ned78 says spend your money else where. And if you ever want to buy a new car for cash. Walk in ask all about it, then walk away and buy somewhere else.


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  • #7
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,360 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    I presume the OP is talking about a 2003 Vectra.

    Unfortunately the Vectra is unloved and are pretty tough enough to shift second hand. I should know I had one a few years ago and trying to get a garage to take it as a trade-in was almost impossible.

    Without defending the dealer in question, the Focus sells quite easily and he can probably afford to be choosy about the trade-in or simply got a better offer. Saying that there is no excuse for poor service. They could simply have just rang back and say that they don't want the Vectra or the Focus was sold.


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