Irish dealer offering UK trade in value

Stallingrad

Was looking at a car (UK reg on Irish forecourt) recently. The trade in value offered on our car was very low, well below comparative Irish values, and when challenged on this the dealers line was "I can get one of those in the UK for X."

I felt like pointing at the car on the forecourt and saying well I can get that in the UK for Y."

Daft state of affairs.

punisher5112

Stallingrad wrote: »

Was looking at a car (UK reg on Irish forecourt) recently. The trade in value offered on our car was very low, well below comparative Irish values, and when challenged on this the dealers line was "I can get one of those in the UK for X."

I felt like pointing at the car on the forecourt and saying well I can get that in the UK for Y."

Daft state of affairs.

Go buy car in UK yourself.

TheBully

Walk away from a dealer like that, anyone trying to sell an English car here and hasn't even changed it is lazy and just in it for a quick buck.
Why give him an extra 1k for a car that u can hop on a plane for €40 and a ferry home for 100 for? If he can't even go to the hassle of changing it over for you.
Plus, yes he can prob get your car in england for X a,punt, but once again it's on English plates, someone will have to pay VRT, Tax and nct on it,

colm_mcm

Look at the cost to change rather than the trade in price.

mgbgt1978

TheBully wrote: »

Walk away from a dealer like that, anyone trying to sell an English car here and hasn't even changed it is lazy and just in it for a quick buck.
Why give him an extra 1k for a car that u can hop on a plane for €40 and a ferry home for 100 for? If he can't even go to the hassle of changing it over for you.
Plus, yes he can prob get your car in england for X a,punt, but once again it's on English plates, someone will have to pay VRT, Tax and nct on it,

In fairness, an Irish Dealer is not going to VRT a UK Car until he has a buyer. Nothing lazy or underhand about it.
In the OP's case the Dealer would VRT the car after agreeing a price with the Buyer. That's how the system works

yannakis

If you have the patience and budget to buy the new car and sell your old car yourself, do it.

Trade-in offers for my old car were between 3,900-4,500 (whilst looking at used cars 13-15k). I eventually sold it myself for 5,550.

Stallingrad

punisher5112 wrote: »

Go buy car in UK yourself.

Have brought in a number of cars in the past, selling my own privately. This was the first time I've looked at a used car here in years.

BrianBoru00

mgbgt1978 wrote: »

In fairness, an Irish Dealer is not going to VRT a UK Car until he has a buyer. Nothing lazy or underhand about it.
In the OP's case the Dealer would VRT the car after agreeing a price with the Buyer. That's how the system works

Then that is lazy. Surely hes going to have to sell it eventually and hes going to have to VRT within 30 days of bringing it in.

goochy

sorry but theres totally different procedures for dealers , they can keep uk reg until sold - also why would he register in his own county when he might sell to other end of country.
the only time dealers reg. cars before selling is if they are worried vrt might be higher than quoted.

coylemj

colm_mcm wrote: »

Look at the cost to change rather than the trade in price.

+1 the flood of used cars from the UK has pushed down prices across the board - it even forced MSL to slash new Merc. prices by 10%. That means that used prices for the existing fleet are also down because by late 2016, you could buy a 161 car for the money that bought you a 151 a few months earlier. The biggest losers were the punters who bought new in the first half of 2016.

Some people think they can buy at the new prices but get the old trade-in value for their own car - it doesn't work like that.

colm_mcm

BrianBoru00 wrote: »

Then that is lazy. Surely hes going to have to sell it eventually and hes going to have to VRT within 30 days of bringing it in.

No. That's not how it works.
VRTing it in the garage name would add an extra owner and isn't required. What if someone from outside the dealers own county wants to buy the car and have their county's plate on it?

Tying up money in VRT would be silly.