Author Topic: Dealer Arrogance...and not VW !  (Read 10176 times)

Offline p3asa

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Re: Dealer Arrogance...and not VW !
« Reply #30 on: 01 August 2015, 12:51 »
The other side of the coin, which I think I'm a little scared to mention on here, is that all over customers walk into shops and demand prices for products that they see on the internet (or in this case from brokers) when those prices are not actually feasible from a bricks and mortar retailer.


How many do you think percentage wise actually do this? I don't think it will be that many.

Apart from on forums I don't know anyone who does this. I don't know if its out of naivety or they are just too scared to be that upfront. When I ordered my Golf and talking to folk who I work with, not one knew anything about brokers. They were genuinely surprised discounts like this could be had and sad to say some have since bought new cars and still paid full dealership prices  :sick:

Not sure re your quote "(or in this case from brokers) when those prices are not actually feasible from a bricks and mortar retailer." as brokers just put you in contact with a bricks and mortar retailer! So in reality they are available gong this route. But then if everyone did this I agree the price would have to go up. Which brings me to my first point that not many folk go in asking for whats available online otherwise those getting a healthy discount would cease as the full paying customers would be no more  :laugh: 

Someone has to subside the broker prices  :rolleyes:
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Re: Dealer Arrogance...and not VW !
« Reply #31 on: 01 August 2015, 13:03 »
^^^^ The brokers tend to use the fleet department generally though Steve so different discounts, dealer bonuses and more importantly allocation will apply.
Hence the generally low part ex prices with broker bought cars - you order from the fleet department to get the fleet bonuses but your car gets bought through the retail side just like a trade bought car so they won't pay much more than auction price unless they really want it.
There's only so much money in any one car deal and they're not going to waste a salesman's valuable time on an internet purchase via a broker.

When I ordered my GTI is wasn't too long after the order books opened and there were literally dozens of broker bought cars on here that arrived quicker than my retail purchased car despite me getting an order number and tracking number almost immediately. That comes down to allocation.
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Re: Dealer Arrogance...and not VW !
« Reply #32 on: 01 August 2015, 14:33 »
I prefer going to a main dealer even when it is for a lease.

Not a single broker could offer me a cheaper lease deal than my VW Dealer or a deal for a 3 year period. The brokers only had 2 year lease deals. On top of this I got a £750 dealer contribution. The other good thing is that I can continue with my cheap lease deal for an extra year after the 3 years is up and at a lower cost. I had this confirmed by VWFS.
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