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Is there a manufacturer or dealer who actually charges for these items?
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Not in my long (recent) experience of 'compiling' & 'undertaking' both/either...
...in fact, Audi have been sending me duplicate brochures for the past 3-months! Perhaps they're charging some other bloke for not receiving his...
...but much more importantly, how do I prevent that wretched Accident Helpline' pop-up advert from, er, popping-up all the time (I've already got Block Pop-Up Windows switched-on)?
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Is there a manufacturer or dealer who actually charges for these items?
Probably not - there are just those who haven't signed up to be in HJ's list.
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Isn't it just one of those phrases which gets automatically recycled everywhere. It's like plumbers and builders who announce on the side of their vans "Free quotations". Has anybody ever been charged for a quotation by a plumber or an electrician?
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"Free quotations". Has anybody ever been charged for a quotation by a plumber or an electrician?
No, BUT.
In my line of business, there are two companies local to me that charge for quotations when insurance companies are involved. Apparently they aint cheap either, minimum of £45 per quote.
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>> "Free quotations". Has anybody ever >> been charged for a quotation by a plumber or an electrician?
If you don't yet own the property they may charge.
A friend was planning to buy a new house and the surveyor had picked up a problem with the roof. No roofers would quote without payment. He chose the local roofers with the worst reputation to quote.
They quoted several thousand pounds which he negotiated off the purchase price. Then used another more reputable firm to do the work, who charged him only a few hundred pounds.
Back to cars. I doubt I would get much of a brochure if I rang up and asked Rolls, Ferrari or Bugatti. And as for a test drive....
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They quoted several thousand pounds which he negotiated off the purchase price. Then used another more reputable firm to do the work who charged him only a few hundred pounds.
How charming. What a way to treat someone. If I were the seller and found out about this, I'd be round there sharpish. Mind you, I'd have got quotes myself and told the buyer to do one. This sounds like gaining a pecuniary advantage by deception.
An odd moral stand to take: give business to reputable tradespeople, act in a disreputable way yourself.
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Peugeot and Renault dealers, at least, in my part of France often have banners saying 'free test drives'.
It must be a mindset thing I suppose, in the same way that craft shops over here often have signs saying 'free admission'.
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