Salesmen

Not everyone has the good fortune to be able to pay cash for an expensive item. Agreed that some people get into debt, and some salesmen are aggressive in their approach, sometimes they are encouraged to 'sell' certain side-lines (as you no doubt know HUNTERF) in order to possibly get extra commission, we all have to earn the odd crumb. Personally I would not have paid the out the amount of money you daughter paid out, six weeks before getting the goods.

I was always told to pay cash for cars ,if possible, because of the high depreciation. That said, I have only ever had one brand new car on which I got a great deal as the company went out of business!

PRINTMISS

You can rest assured my daughter has not paid the cash upfront.
She put a £250 deposit down by credit card and she will pay the balance by debit card when she collects the car.

Frank

seasider

The only car I had on HP was because it was a low interest deal and you could get more by keeping your money in the building society.
Also you got 2 free services if you had the car on finance.
How this worked for the garage I do not know.

I ordered a car from a garage which went out of business once.
It was supposed to be delivered in January but I tried to contact the garage and found out it had gone out of business.
I had paid a £100 deposit by credit card so I knew I would get that back but I got on to the liquidators as I had signed a contract and they were very helpful.
I also was told I would not be held to the contract and I got a letter through the next day from them.
They gave me the number of a garage in Cambridge which was a little strange as the original garage was just outside London.
The new garage said send a copy of the paperwork to them and they will supply the car at the same price less my £100 deposit.
The car arrived in April so it was the next registration.
I did have to buy 2 new tyres for my old car and have it serviced but overall I don't think I lost anything.

Frank

Well, what can one say....

I bought a car and paid cash, and it was arranged for me to take my old car and exchange it the followng day, whilst I sorted out insurance to start from midnight. My new car was valeted and driven back onto the forecourt, the man who cleaned it turned back to close the shutters, and in a split second the car was stolen by an opportunist car thief. The salesman phoned me to explain and tried to get me to claim on my insurance!

I'll gloss over the conversation that ensued - not my finest hour! The next day, a nicer car was driven up from Oxford and delivered to me with a bunch of flowers and an apology. I've avoided paying cash since then. Not that I think they had a leg to stand on, but it was a rotten experience. I usually get a low interest deal, in return for them knocking a bit more off the price, and pay it off early so the interest paid is minimal.

There is no way I would buy a new car either cash purchase or HP at the beginning of new registration period,everyone knows the new car has been sat on a massive delivery site for months previous waiting the new reg's to come out,the best time to buy a new car is in the couple of months prior to new registration when sales are low and salesmen are after their sales targets for that month,anyway who wants to buy a new car that looses money as soon as you drive it out of the forecourt.

glammanana

I would agree with you normally.
My daughter did ask about a new car in April for June delivery but decided it was a little bit much at the time but when we went through the finances and I managed to find a bit of money as well.
When we went in this time we tried a few garages and it is now about £200 more to change but the car now has a few more gadgets on it.
We did ask the salesman when he priced it we asked if it can be done on a 63 registration.
He said he hopes we will accept that as the car is not due to come off the production line until the 26th August.
He did say there is a small risk it may be late but my daughter's car is not due for a service / MOT until 21st September so fingers crossed.

Frank

whenim64

I took my old car in to the garage a few years ago and transferred my property over and the salesman locked it and we went inside to complete the paperwork.
I handed both sets of keys to him.
I got home and about an hour later got a phone call from the manager asking me to confirm where the car had been left.
The old car was parked by the side of my new car in their car park.
It transpired the old car had been stolen.
The manager just wanted to confirm the position it had been left in as he said very occasionally they are left at the side of the road for a while if the car park is full and he was just checking the salesman was not having a memory lapse.
The CCTV was not working.
About 3 years later I went in to the garage and saw the same salesman and asked if he wanted to deal with me after what happened.
Both the salesman and the manager said they certainly do.
They said that the value of my old car had been claimed on the garage insurance and as far as they were aware it had never been found.

Frank