Price change

cork sham

Hi all,

I visited a peugeot main dealer in bandon saturday last week looking for a used car. The sales man told me he had a megane cabrio coming in next week and they'd be asking around €6950 for it. He rang me on wednesday to say it was in and i said is the price still €6950 and he said yes. I called to see it yesterday and test drove it and loved it so i went to talk about trade in stuff, and he said the car was €8,500. A jump of €1500 in a few days!!!!!

Have i any come back or what would ye advise i do????

dobsdave

cork sham wrote: »

Hi all,

I visited a peugeot main dealer in bandon saturday last week looking for a used car. The sales man told me he had a megane cabrio coming in next week and they'd be asking around €6950 for it. He rang me on wednesday to say it was in and i said is the price still €6950 and he said yes. I called to see it yesterday and test drove it and loved it so i went to talk about trade in stuff, and he said the car was €8,500. A jump of €1500 in a few days!!!!!

Have i any come back or what would ye advise i do????

What did he say when you reminded him of the original price??

Alanstrainor

Of course you have no come back. take your business elsewhere.

cork sham

dobsdave wrote: »

What did he say when you reminded him of the original price??

He said they didnt get it in for the price they taught they would of, which to me is total bullsh*t

EPM

Sounds like he was guessing. You don't have any comeback but I'd be sure to remind them that you wouldn't buy a car from them if they play timewasting games like that. It would have taken the salesman very, very little effort to go off and double check the price for you.

cork sham

EPM wrote: »

Sounds like he was guessing. You don't have any comeback but I'd be sure to remind them that you wouldn't buy a car from them if they play timewasting games like that. It would have taken the salesman very, very little effort to go off and double check the price for you.

Would ringing the manager or simi make any difference you think???

-Corkie-

cork sham wrote: »

Would ringing the manager or simi make any difference you think???

You would be wasting your breath ringing the SIMI.

SV

Man just forget it. There's nothing you can do.

Jimbob 83

I'd just tell him to stop wasting your time and to next time get his facts straight and he might have a sale instead of another car sitting on the lot

For Forks Sake

A Renault appreciating in value? I've heard it all now.

Nissan doctor

He can tell you the car is 20k if he wants. there is/was no contract of any sort in place as no deal has taken place so I can't imagin what come back you'd be thinking of.

There is often also a difference between cash price and trade in price.

Just take your business elsewhere if your not happy.

pajo1981

Offer him €6950 for the car and I guarantee he'll take it.

You must a have looked overly keen and he thought he'd try it on.

Eric Cartman

did you tell him about the trade-in with the original quote ? 6950 was probably the straight cash sale price

pajo1981

Sorry I didn't see the bit about the trade in.

Sales guys will add about 1500 to the price if a trade in is offered. This is to allow people who failed junior cert maths to tell their friends that they got a great price for their old car.

dharn

he could say ya the price is 6950 and offer you 1500 less for your own car than anyone else would offer what do you do then

Gophur

cork sham wrote: »

Hi all,

I visited a peugeot main dealer in bandon saturday last week looking for a used car. The sales man told me he had a megane cabrio coming in next week and they'd be asking around €6950 for it. He rang me on wednesday to say it was in and i said is the price still €6950 and he said yes. I called to see it yesterday and test drove it and loved it so i went to talk about trade in stuff, and he said the car was €8,500. A jump of €1500 in a few days!!!!!

Have i any come back or what would ye advise i do????

Come-back against what, exactly? The sales man is entitled to ask anything he wants.

I'm guessing if the price dropped €1,500 there wouldn't be such objections?

bazz26

I'm guessing that the OP intitally got the discounted cash price (no trade-in) of €6950 from the dealer. When the OP turned up and had a car to part exchange then the dealer quoted the retail price of €8,500.

cork sham

bazz26 wrote: »

I'm guessing that the OP intitally got the discounted cash price (no trade-in) of €6950 from the dealer. When the OP turned up and had a car to part exchange then the dealer quoted the retail price of €8,500.

Nope, he looked at my own prior to them getting the car in and said it would be €6950 straight or €4950 with my own, then when he got it in it magically became €8500 or €6500 with my trade in

Nissan doctor

cork sham wrote: »

Nope, he looked at my own prior to them getting the car in and said it would be €6950 straight or €4950 with my own, then when he got it in it magically became €8500 or €6500 with my trade in

Well if it was a car they weren't even in posession of when you first enquired then all prices were estimated off the top of his head. Sounds like he's guilty of nothing more then getting an educated guess a little wrong.


What is the average price of the car your after though? closer to the lower price or the higher? I'm sure there are plenty of others out there to be looking at anyway.

Del2005

cork sham wrote: »

Nope, he looked at my own prior to them getting the car in and said it would be €6950 straight or €4950 with my own, then when he got it in it magically became €8500 or €6500 with my trade in

Leave it a few weeks and it'll be down to €5000. I can't see a cabrio Renault moving this time of year.

jhegarty

70k miles , alloys in terrible condition and it's august.

They won't get anything near €8500 for it.

As Del said , leave it a month and they will be begging you to take it.

cadaliac

Nissan doctor wrote: »

Well if it was a car they weren't even in posession of when you first enquired then all prices were estimated off the top of his head. Sounds like he's guilty of nothing more then getting an educated guess a little wrong.


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Sorry, but that doesn't cut it for me.

He is a sales man. His job is to sell cars. Part of his job is to price cars, second hand or new.
Do you honestly think he was €1500 out on his "estimation"?
No, I don't think so.

If he had the information that the car was due in during the week, the deal was already done. Hence he knew the price.

Anyway, he should have told the punter that he would find out the price rather that qoute him a ficxed price if he didn't know.

Sorry OP, but, I would hold him to the price he qouted you or else walk away.

-Chris-

Maybe he mis-estimated the car when it was first being traded in, and subsequently found that he had to repaint some shoddy body work, or found some issues under the car that he didn't see before.

More than likely he'll try and claw those costs back through the selling price rather than absorbing the loss.


OP, just walk away, it's too messy.