Are Used Car Prices Dropping Quickly

I wonder are the Irish wholesale markets, auctions been hit as hard as the Uk markets that have seen 10% drop on wholesale side

Does anyone know any companies in Ireland that can do the processing of importing a car to avoid VAT & customs. Not looking for a car who sells imprted cars but for a company who do the processing once I have found the car itself?

as above, if you add a middle man they are going to need to add margin, so what's the benefit? It may make sense if buying mega money cars where saving a few % of worth 1000s

Seems to be a number of dealers announcing used car “sales” these days. I reckon it’s gone quiet now. Interesting to see how this plays out.

Good to hear, get very little off car deals these days, I always remember being able to negotiate a better price but hasn’t happened for a while now, would be great if prices start to drop.

VW gone to zero percent across most models suggests sales are slow.

But if its vat qualifying doesn't that mean you can buy car vat free from UK but must pay vat here

Anyone can buy a VAT qualifying car in the UK free of VAT as long as its being exported, not just traders. Traders have it easier tho because BCA is the best source of VAT qualifying cars and it is trade only. They have to pay the UK but BCA will refund it when you prove the car has been exported.

And technically speaking traders don’t actually have to pay the import VAT here. It gets postponed to when they sell the car and just pay VAT on the full sale price of the car. Instead of paying it, reclaiming it, and then paying it again when the car sells. Whereas before Brexit it was just done using the VAT margin scheme.

No, don’t know of anyone. But its not impossible. There have been a couple of posts on here from people that have done it.