A buyer may find another Mercedes elsewhere that has a slightly lower asking price, but when they check the spec sheet they may find out that the original MSRP was dramatically lower as well.
Finding the best deal on a pre-owned vehicle is way more time consuming than getting the lowest quote on a new car and it has less to do with your ability to haggle and more about skill in analyzing various factors to see which car presents the best value.
At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy nut, how do we know that there is not price collusion unintentional or otherwise in the electronic era where every dealer has access to what the others are asking? The A. Car Buying. By Tom McParland. I tend to print off the details of a few similar cars from the internet at lower prices even if they are no where near where I would travel to. Even if the car has faults, just print off pictures of the car with the price on.
When the dealer see's you have these other cars to look at, he's more likely to drop his price to stop you going elsewhere.
I am in barking on buying a second car at the moment it's a minefield not to choose a lemon. Your article however is most useful and I shall be carrying your pointers around with me Thank you. Tags Cars Car Finance. Our Car costs calculator can help you discover the true cost of owning different cars. Get a breakdown of what a car could cost you over the years.
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Buying a used car privately will usually get you a better deal than when buying through a dealer. They might have already seen a car they want to buy and are under pressure to sell their old car. Or advertised it in the local paper for a week already, or had it on a site such as Auto Trader for a month? If you have problems with your car, your consumer rights might be influenced by how you paid for it.
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There are also exceptional circumstances where you have less or even no chance of negotiating down the asking price of a used car. In some cases, when an exceptional vehicle is advertised for sale you can even find some people being prepared to offer more than the asking price to purchase the vehicle. Economic circumstances can also reduce your chances of getting money off a used vehicle, and I can cite two recent examples.
This situation saw used car prices increasing as each month passed and this was the total opposite of how things usually work, which is that a used car for sale reduces in value as each month goes by. Former retail auto industry professional for almost a decade and an automotive writer and journalist for the last 8 years.
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