I quite like dealers to be stand offish that way i can look at the car, poke and prod it, check its room interior quality etc, get an idea of it without sales BS in my ears and a beady eye watching me. If im then interested i walk upto there desk and ask for help. I much prefer it like this than a salesman hovering over me.
I did not buy local in the end as from every local dealer i got 'no discount we can sell everyone we get' reply even though the yard was full of fleet sold GTIs which of cause would not have paid list
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I did try by showing quotes i had off the net and said match it or come close and i will buy right now but still got 'no deal'.
This ment i had kept putting it off as i kept going to all the local dealers each weekend or day off in my area waiting for replies from them when they said we will have to speak to the sales manager etc. In the end i gave up on local dealers.
I then got let down by our fleet guy. So i went back to the brokers on the net in my final last effort as it was getting nearer the price rise time now and i was now getting silly delivery times from all the brokers by phone and the net. then as a last attempted as i had given up totally by now and was starting to loose my hair in this trying to find a needle in a field of haystacks contest i contacted a smaller broker.
My broker went way way out of his way to find me an allocation since his normal dealer chain had non left before the price rise/vat rise. (I think he could feel the pain down the phone i had been through and felt sorry for me). He did lots of work imo, kept me updated daily, were the bigger brokers i had phones first just said take it or leave it this is what we can do. After he had put me in touch with the dealer of cause thats his job done.
Took my dealer over a month and a half nearly two to supply me with a provisional build week.
They said it was because build weeks can change until they are confirmed 4-5 weeks before there build week.
