"Cash Price" in car adverts

Bought a 171 Superb in August, almost 19k, cash. Absolutely no movement on price whatsoever from the dealer I bought from, or any others that I looked at at the time. Guy I bought it from straight up said that everything he had was selling no problem, so he was sticking to his guns. I'm sure some people are still getting to haggle on certain things, but my attempts weren't even entertained.

Thats a bit simplistic. When there is a shortage prices go up. If there is a surplus prices go down. Walk away if you want but you might be walking for a while.

Yes for once in a generation you probably would not lose money on a new car in the first year

Well, I would have been not only walking away but walking everywhere, because I needed to buy a car before September, as my previous one was due to fail its next NCT and it was not economically viable to fix it (believe me, I tried). 😂

I had a particular spec I wanted in mind, and the one I bought met it. Under normal circumstances, when you ask what's the best they can do for cash, or make an offer, they take a sharp intake of breath though their teeth, knock a hundred or so off the price, and then the games begin. In these instances, it was just a flat out no, and an explanation as it why it was going to remain a flat out no.

As it turns out, I've been keeping an eye on the market out of curiosity since then, and literally nothing that met the spec I wanted in my budget has come up since then. So I got the car I wanted within my budget, just the reality of the market at the moment is that there's limited discounts to be had.

But look, maybe there's some people out there who can still get lucky. And if you don't need to buy a car, and you can afford to walk away, now is certainly not the time to be buying one.

Yeah I've started to open my mind to a private buy if I find one with full service history and all checks out, the warranty with a garage and some comeback is what has me garage browsing.

I've enquired too with auctions out of interest as im getting that desperate and im told all sales are final as I had thought, there is comeback now with them on engine/gear box issues after purchase although id want it in writing.

Recently bought a second hand small starter car. Looked around for a couple of months and any decent contenders were being sold within a few days of going up on line. Lost out on a couple because I took a day or two to try and haggle when there was no movement. A few dealers told me they cannot get enough stock and there are no discounts at the moment. Couldn’t even get a token 50 euro off in the end!

I always found the UK dealers hard to haggle with. Walked away from a £30k sale 10 years ago over £200!! Dealer was just saying no!

Its ok if you've never learned the art of haggling on a deal for a car, rest of us would like that opportunity to remain.

There is no art. The dealer has just left some room for it. They either price the car at what it needs to be, or price it above it needs to be to allow for this bullshit.

Baffles me why people think dealers should give them any discount. It's a functioning business like anywhere else. Would you give someone that walked into your work place €500 into their hand? I think not.