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when you trade in ya old car at a dealers do the dealers just send them off to auction or could you just go and buy one from them ?
Edited by Pugugly on 13/03/2009 at 19:40
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It varies, usually dealers wont sell cars to joe public, local smaller dealers usually buy them.
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They won't sell them to you or I because there would be implied warranty. There may be exceptions. Most will have other local dealers or garages they sell on to. Or just auction them. Obviously newer ones they will try to sell themselves.
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The local trader arrangement is good business. I've p/x'd a few cars and in a couple of cases, the salesman will call his trader contacts to assess interest in the car before making a bid. When we chopped our 306 D Turbo in against a year old MX5, the salesman knew of a trader who shifted a lot of Peugeot diesels, and called the guy, who made a bid over the phone for a couple of hundred quid over Cap (I verified this with a friend I had in the trade at the time) because he had a punter lined up for it. The salesman knows he can punt the car on for what he bid for it with no hassle or comeback, we save a couple of hundred on the cost to change, and the trader gets the car they want at a fair price with no effort involved. Everyone's a winner.
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I used to hear of people asking to snoop round the back of franchised dealers looking for trade-ins too cheap for their forecourt, before they were sent 'down the line'. Sometimes they found a good deal, but I don't know how common it is these days.
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The bigger dealer groups won't even use trade buyers, these days, as they have a fear of protecting themselves from any underhand 'cash' bonuses to staff, etc.
Plus the deals they get creating branded sections, within an uction, quite often means they achieve excellent returns & minimal expenses, in accounting for the sale, transport, preparation & of course, no come backs!
VB
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