Carland half price sale

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Fri 6 Dec 2002 16:50
Carland half price sale - DavidHM
The prices are good, but if they've all got 90-odd thousand miles on them, the savings aren't that big and close enough to auction prices (maybe £200 below what they'd make on a good day) to make it worthwhile to get the punters in and sell them something else.

If you'd paid anywhere near full price for these, you'd have been stitched up big time. (£6k for a five year old Brava? I don't think so!)

So all in all, if these cars have been on the forecourt for ages and they'd otherwise have been auctioned (imagine trying to shift a Focus saloon in purple) then Carland is about £1k down and has probably spent 20 or even 50 times that on adveritsing the allegedly massive savings.
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Fri 6 Dec 2002 20:13
Carland half price sale - Crombster
I spotted an R reg V6 Omega there two years ago, no price on the window but a spotless example. The chap wanted £8500 for it, which wasn't a bargain but seemed a good price. That was until I sat in it and caught sight of the 140,000 miles on the clock!! The guy said that since I was an Omega owner I would be aware that this was nothing to the Omega's V6!!

I coughed and spluttered, offered just shy of 3 grand and was very nearly kicked out the showroom! "I dont think we can do business sir" - not likely mate!

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Sat 7 Dec 2002 14:46
Carland half price sale - simonsmith473©
From people i know well who have bought from carland, it certainly hasn't been cheap. My cousin bought a car there last year and since it has needed new discs and pads all round, 4 new tyres and a new exhaust system. The car was only a 's' reg bought a year a go for not a very cheap price. My advice would be to steer well clear of such places.
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Sun 8 Dec 2002 11:56
Carland half price sale - T Lucas
Can't really think you gat much of a bargain at a place like that.
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Mon 9 Dec 2002 08:47
Carland half price sale - Galaxy
I went to Carland in West Thurrock a couple of years ago when I was looking around for another car.

I've never come across another dealership like it! From the moment that you enter their door you are pestered by one of their "advisers" who really won't leave you alone. They ask you all sorts of questions like what car you're looking for, how much you want to spend and, of course, about finance arrangements. I only went in to have a quick look round, like I had at many other used car dealerships in the area, without all this hassle. They just wouldn't leave you alone.

I was just about to turn tail and walk out when the "adviser" finally agreed to let me do what I had come in in the first place to do; just have a quick look around at their cars for sale.

I needn't have bothered! They were all high mileage examples, hence what seem at first to be low prices, but, when you take the mileage into account, they aren't. Condition of some wasn't wonderful, either, with stone chips on the front being quite common, as were imperfect interiors.

My advice, all things considered, is to stay away from Carland!!!
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