Dealer not displaying prices....

nsnoefc1878

There's a dealer on facebook, they've a website too, and they never publish the price on either, always tell people to call for that info. They are a legit dealership with a lot of expensive stock, mainly 4wd, pickups etc.
I can't understand why they refuse to publicise the price, and it comes across dodgy to me, like they will give a different price depending on who calls. I'd also assume it might not even be technically legal.
Thoughts?

Buddy Bubs

Is it an established, respectable business going a long time or a fly by night operation?
If its going a long time it's obviously working for them. Unusual, but I suppose it's up to them.
My company don't advertise our prices either, although we aren't in car sales.
You see plenty of POA out there

Buddy Bubs

Is it an established, respectable business going a long time or a fly by night operation?
If its going a long time it's obviously working for them. Unusual, but I suppose it's up to them.
My company don't advertise our prices either, although we aren't in car sales.
You see plenty of POA out there

PsychoPete

If you are interested in a car it only takes a few minutes to ring and ask the price

nsnoefc1878

Buddy Bubs wrote: »

Is it an established, respectable business going a long time or a fly by night operation?
If its going a long time it's obviously working for them. Unusual, but I suppose it's up to them.
My company don't advertise our prices either, although we aren't in car sales.
You see plenty of POA out there

I think they are around a while yeah. I would have thought that prices need to be published somewhere as a legal requirement no? For transparency maybe?

Buddy Bubs

nsnoefc1878 wrote: »

I think they are around a while yeah. I would have thought that prices need to be published somewhere as a legal requirement no? For transparency maybe?

Record of selling prices will need to kept for tax purposes but don't know of any requirement to display invitation prices, which is all any of them are

bazz26

Sure nobody wants to pay windscreen prices anyway. If you are a cash customer you want to haggle a discount off whatever price they tell you when you inquire. If your trading in then the only figure that matters is the cost to change price, not the windscreen price

Atlantic Dawn

I'd not waste my time even enquiring.

kindalen

I ignore any company that doesn't display prices.

Darc19

nsnoefc1878 wrote: »

I think they are around a while yeah. I would have thought that prices need to be published somewhere as a legal requirement no? For transparency maybe?

A legal requirement? No.

There is no legal requirement to publish prices except for specific trades and even then it's a specific list of comparable products/services

whisky_galore

"..like they will give a different price depending on who calls."
Special price for you, my friend.

Hate this pm for price crap from online sellers.

Akrasia

whisky_galore wrote: »

"..like they will give a different price depending on who calls."
Special price for you, my friend.

Hate this pm for price crap from online sellers.

It’s a gullibility filter

A bit like how scam emails usually have really obvious spelling mistakes in them, they are filtering out everyone except the morons who they know they can manipulate

I would never call a dealer who didn’t have a price advertised

In negotiations it’s usually a huge disadvantage to the person who first mentions a price because it sets a ceiling for the seller and a floor for the buyer

The only benefit of POA is to the seller who in a live one on one negotiation can set a higher starting price than would reasonably attract browsers and then negotiate a higher sale price from there

Casati

Akrasia wrote: »

It’s a gullibility filter

A bit like how scam emails usually have really obvious spelling mistakes in them, they are filtering out everyone except the morons who they know they can manipulate

I would never call a dealer who didn’t have a price advertised

In negotiations it’s usually a huge disadvantage to the person who first mentions a price because it sets a ceiling for the seller and a floor for the buyer

The only benefit of POA is to the seller who in a live one on one negotiation can set a higher starting price than would reasonably attract browsers and then negotiate a higher sale price from there

POA generally means asking mad money

road_high

Whenever I see POA or no prices I simply skip on to look at the next one. No time for this bull****ery. Cars aren’t exactly scarce

dakar

Price Objectively Absurd

PauloMN

It has to be a very risky sales strategy, especially with regards to cars, as like other posters above, I just scroll right past POA cars. Personally I think if car sites allow POA, they should not be displayed at all when a user chooses to sort either low or high on price. Garages would soon start displaying prices if that was the case.

Normal One

POA might have been an effective sales strategy 30 years ago when Carzone didn't have thousands of alternatives in front of you. Then again, most dealers haven't mastered the fine art of answering emails yet so it may take some time to catch on