Who has EVER been happy with a trade in value?

[Kaiser]

I'm sure the dealer that did my last trade thought he got a bargain, but the ECU was fucked, so it all kind of balanced out in the end.

[mx6KLZE]

Gennerally buying from a dealer you are paying more then you should, selling to a dealer you are getting less then you could. When buying a decent priced car and trading in your old shitbox, they give you a fair bit more then the wreckers would. Dad got offered $1500 on a non driving magna(worth about a tow truck fee) (broke down outside the dealership when we tried to drive home, he took $200 off ) on a $15000 Liberty.

[wiggah]

I never trade, I always sell privately. For me, working is a pain in the arse. Spending a few hours selling a car is a pretty cheap way to a few extra grand.

[Ze]

The only way a dealer is going to give you fair market value or above unless he is drunk/stoned/out of his mind is if he is going to rape you on the purchase/service/extended warranty etc.

It's common bloody sense.

[jesus]

fixed your poll for ya

[Fraud]

I had 2 separate dealers offer me $1500 for an RB gemini with lowish k's and accident damage, never took them up on it though..

18 months later i had an offer of $300 with no rego, or $800 with 12 months after i jsut spent $831 putting 12 months on it, so i told them to suck a fart. This is the story of why i now own three cars instead of two.. however as soon as i took trade-ins off the table, the pricetag on the car i was buying dropped another $1500 without much effort

I had a mate trade a pintara with a blown head gasket... on the day he was trading it, he pulled the thermostat out, drove it down there, parked around the corner, went and had lunch and stuff for an hour or so while it cooled down, drove it in, got the new car, left the old thermostat in the glovebox for them and pissed off..

another mate traded in his wifes saab 900, he had nothing but trouble with that car, eventually he got sick of it and made her buy anotehr car, and they agreed that he'd trade the saab for his new work ute...

to this day says the best thing the saab ever did for him was make it to the dealer without an issue and idle for 90 seconds while the dealer did a lap of it. He picked up the ute and buggered off. had 2 phone calls the following week from teh dealer, one to ask if he had a kill switch fitted to it, and the other to ask if he'd ever had any issues with the fuel system (mechanical injection ftl)... "nah mate, that car never skipped a beat, if i didnt need a ute for work i'd still have it"

[jesus]

so i told them to suck a fart.

i dont understand how one can suck a fart?

[The Schapelle Guru]

fixed your poll for ya

forgot to add that one... good move

[The Schapelle Guru]

P.S is it actually possible to SCREW a dealer on their trade in??? or are they too switched on..

[1uz-zte]

I'd say you probably have to 'talk their language'. Tell them it comes with free-air.!!!!

[jesus]

you can con them, but its hard

if you were to say go in and say, "look im not going to negociate the price on the new car but i want the best possible trade" then drag it on for ages, like go there 4-5 times and drag it out, then hit the guy up at the last min and say "joint down the road will do the car for XYZ cheaper" and hope he drops the price without droping the trade

the easiest thing to do is forget the whole idea and get an AU waggon on gas at the auctions

[Smashed S15 Bloke]

I was happy on the trade in on the Barina SRi because I knew the diff/axles/clutch were about to drop their guts again

Jumped in my S15 and off I went

[Fatboy]

In 1996 i blew the auto my ex's Barina and reversed it all the way from Glenfield to Liverpool to a Holden dealer so we could trade it in on a newish at the time VR Clubsport. When they wouldn't play ball i reversed it a further 15 minutes down the road to the Holden dealer at Lansvale who promptly gave us an extra 3k for it on a Clubby with a sticker price 2k less.

Not much work for an extra 5k...


We also traded the missus' 2001 Astra a couple of months ago on a brand new one. It was pretty neat and low km but needed some work (paint was a bit average in a few spots and brakes were just about shot plus due for a timing belt and air con re-gas. There was a special on 60th Anniversary Astras which were at $21,990 driveaway so i expected a shit trade in. I told Sharon if we got 8k we'd be lucky. They offered 5k. I laughed and said make it 10k and you have a deal. 10 minutes haggling and the manager shook hands at 9k, i couldn't believe our luck...

[Captiva Fan]

P.S is it actually possible to SCREW a dealer on their trade in??? or are they too switched on..

Friend of mine sort-of did; he got a quote & nailed it down on a Sunday, when the backup wholesaler-dude just happened to be sick. So the dealer ended up calling around to get a price for the car; but didn't notice the prior accident damage & the fact that half the car was a subtlely different shade of silver to the other half.
So the trade-in price was fair for a car that hadn't been in a prang; but it was $2k higher than all the other trade-in offers 'cos the dealer didn't notice the damage.

[S_E]

The dealer my mrs bought her 1yr old Mazda 3 at gave her 4k for her bubble shape 121, and the 3 wasn't a bad deal either.

At the dealer I work at there's a few stories, the used car manager hates it when he goes on holidays, as when he's not there the new car manager (suzuki) does the valuing, and he's real soft, One I can remember was a shitty yellow VC commo that was traded for ~$1500 or so, maybe a little more.

That was a few years ago, since then there is now a new used car manager, who is a bit of a knob (like stripping the tint off any used car, so that they could sell the buyer overpriced tint when it's sold. That got stopped by the dealer principal pretty quick.).
Anyway, just a couple of weeks ago we had a Volvo S90 in the workshop with a blown head gasket, they got quoted $3-4k or something and a mechanic offered then $1500 for the car, then the owner took a week or so to decide what they were going to do. So they go over to Suzuki, buy a used car (Volvo on one side of the dealership, Suzuki on the other, and used car in the middle, but with salespeople doing Suzuki and used cars) and trade the Volvo....for $3k the used car guys had nfi there was anything wrong with it! they only found out when a mechanic went over there a week later and asked what they would sell it for, sales people were not impressed! owner scored bigtime there.