eracode:

 

turtleattacks:

 

 

 

Are you going to tell us what you got and what you got it for? 😛

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rather not state brand - starts to get a bit too close.

 

 

 

It's a Euro car - base model plus one factory-fitted package. The verifiable all-up on-road price was $54,890. They offered to discount it to $52,990 over the phone, then by email, without any prompting and before I had been in there.

 

 

 

Then I went in for them to assess the trade-in - a small 2014 Euro car, 55,000 km which we had from new. The retail value according to Trademe was about $15,000 (but I know no-one pays asking price on Trade).

 

 

 

They assessed the trade, came back pointing out its defects (mainly normal wear and tear for a seven year old car) and said the retail value of the car was $9,000. I said I disagreed and pointed out my observations from Trademe.

 

 

 

All this was designed to lower my expectations - as I knew they would do. Said they would give us $4,500 for the trade which resulted in a change-over price of $48,490. This was when I started to talk about going home to consult my wife, other dealers etc

 

 

 

He asked the question about ‘what can I do today’ and what changeover price was I looking for. I said I doubted he could get there, he said ‘try me’. I told him Mrs Code and I had discussed it and didn’t want to pay more than $45k. 

 

 

 

He said ‘give me a minute’ and went away for 10-15 minutes. Came back and after a bit of preamble said $46,000. I said ‘done’ and we shook hands. 

 

 

 

Maybe I could have pressed him further but there’s a point where you have judge what’s fair and what further pushing may start to piss people off (maybe that doesn’t matter in this situation but not my style). Right or wrong, I was very happy with where we had got to.