Extra Discount For Buying New Car?

Time2GetFit

Currently in the process of visiting dealers about a new (201) car and getting various prices and trying to negotiate the best possible deal.

If you could find someone also buying a new car from the same brand would there be scope to get additional discount and if so what would be realistic to expect or is it even realistic? Would the process even work? For the record I am talking about €30k + car.

What I am suggesting is 2 people would both go independently to a few (3 dealers maybe?) local dealers and negotiate the best deal they can for the new car they require taking account of their unique circumstances eg cash buyer vs trade in vs scrappage vs PCP or any combination of them.

Depending on the outcome these two people then arrange to go back to a dealer (or dealers if they dealer giving them the best deal didn’t match) where they were getting the most attractive offer and say “what will you do if we both buy here?”

Both sales are completed separately and after the day the sale is done the two buyers need never contact each other again.

Obviously I’m just throwing the question out there. On the face of it plenty of people buying new cars and worst case scenario is you can’t get a better deal than you already got yourself through your own negotiations.

People could use boards stating their car and county and see if anyone else is in the same boat. Don’t imagine the additional savings would be massive but if you saved another €500+ wouldn’t it be worth a couple of extra visits and a few messages back and forth with a similar interested buyer.

Would be interested in people’s views positive or negative. Anyone in the trade know if this would be a runner? I have a vague recollection of Nissan doing an offer when people were buying two new cars but think that was aimed at the same transaction eg a couple changing both cars and can’t imagine it was hugely successful as very few houses do that!

Thanks all.

Idbatterim

What car are you looking at ? Your on the ball with savings , but likely you’ll save a lot more importing from uk

Time2GetFit

Idbatterim wrote: »

What car are you looking at ? Your on the ball with savings , but likely you’ll save a lot more importing from uk

Thanks for that but it’s brand new I’m hoping to go as I’ve a jallopy I’m hoping to ‘scrap’ as part of the deal.m and likely to go PCP too which means importing won’t work for our circumstances.

Peugeot 5008 is the front runner for what we require.

Idbatterim

Time2GetFit wrote: »

Thanks for that but it’s brand new I’m hoping to go as I’ve a jallopy I’m hoping to ‘scrap’ as part of the deal.m and likely to go PCP too which means importing won’t work for our circumstances.

Peugeot 5008 is the front runner for what we require.

I’d say you’d get a better deal from a non Dublin dealer ...

Time2GetFit

Idbatterim wrote: »

I’d say you’d get a better deal from a non Dublin dealer ...

Could well be right and was something I was thinking of also. I plan to use the lowest Dublin figure as my starting point and then maybe drop an email to couple of dealers just outside eg Kildare using that as my basis.

The proposition I outline saying few “local dealers” to me would mean within 30mins of home and that may well be outside of Dublin itself.

mickdw

I'd say if you could hit a dealer towards the end of a sales period, the offer of 2 cars would get their attention.
I often thought that we miss out on a lot of the discounts we see in UK where they have independent online sellers offering cars with thousands off.

Idbatterim

Time2GetFit wrote: »

Could well be right and was something I was thinking of also. I plan to use the lowest Dublin figure as my starting point and then maybe drop an email to couple of dealers just outside eg Kildare using that as my basis.

The proposition I outline saying few “local dealers” to me would mean within 30mins of home and that may well be outside of Dublin itself.

There is a car magazine in uk and they’d send their employees around to negotiate lowest prices and would then publish the prices and dealers in the mag. Doubt that happens here tho