URGENT HELP NEEDED!

[JB 1]

just had a call from my grandparents who on the way back from shoppinh have stopped off at a dealership where they have fallen in love woth a little skoda that they now want to by for my girlfriend!

Which is amazingly kind BUT she has not even seen the car or knows anything about this?!

My problem is, I do not think she will like it. The salesman is being an utter wker by saying if she does not take it then she is a waste of space!

And that they must pay for it right now as someone else is coming in am hours time to have a second drive blah blah etc

what the hell do i do?!

[Petrol Only]

Errr say

NO!

[wildcat45]

Tactfully explain the sitation to them. Try if you can to be as honest as you can.

That its a lovely lovely gesture, but then can't buy something like that for someone without them knowing about it.

Good luck.

[schmalex]

Tell them to tell the salesperson that they just want to check with you & then you get on the phone & read him the riot act for trying to pressurise older people into parting with money under pressure.

There are 10's of thousands of cars for sale - they don't have to buy that one.

[wanacoop]

try to tell them in the nicest way that she has her heart set on a different car.

[rallycross]

Nice of them to offer.

A nice spec' Yeti might be fun

Edited by rallycross on Monday 31st January 11:58

[JB 1]

The car in question is a 2000 Skoda felicia 1.6 glxi 32k ..... £1500!

I thonk that is way too much, what do you think?

I have asked my grandad to get out of the dealership and come over to mine for a cup of tea and a chat



EDIT: my friend in the trade has just had a look on some sytem and they have put a depo on it... can they get it back?

[mercfunder]

JB 1 said:

EDIT: my friend in the trade has just had a look on some sytem and they have put a depo on it... can they get it back?

Depends what they agreed with the salesman when they put the deposit down.

[Efbe]

JB 1 said:

just had a call from my grandparents who on the way back from shoppinh have stopped off at a dealership where they have fallen in love woth a little skoda that they now want to by for my girlfriend!

Which is amazingly kind BUT she has not even seen the car or knows anything about this?!

My problem is, I do not think she will like it. The salesman is being an utter wker by saying if she does not take it then she is a waste of space!

And that they must pay for it right now as someone else is coming in am hours time to have a second drive blah blah etc

what the hell do i do?!

personally i'd go down the dealer myself and give the dealer such a fking grilling he'd be stting his teeth.
Pressure selling old timers really fks me off.

i wouldn't buy it whatever the car is, just because of this attitude. Also there will be no-one coming later to test drive. If there was, then he would be pushing them to look at a different car.

[Muzzer]

JB 1 said:

The car in question is a 2000 Skoda felicia 1.6 glxi 32k ..... £1500!

I thonk that is way too much, what do you think?

I have asked my grandad to get out of the dealership and come over to mine for a cup of tea and a chat



EDIT: my friend in the trade has just had a look on some sytem and they have put a depo on it... can they get it back?

What system?

Is it a main dealer or a back-street independent?

How much deposit?

[deveng]

Muzzer said:

JB 1 said:

The car in question is a 2000 Skoda felicia 1.6 glxi 32k ..... £1500!

I thonk that is way too much, what do you think?

I have asked my grandad to get out of the dealership and come over to mine for a cup of tea and a chat



EDIT: my friend in the trade has just had a look on some sytem and they have put a depo on it... can they get it back?

What system?

Is it a main dealer or a back-street independent?

How much deposit?

The universal system of putting deposits down on cars. I would imagine it would have to be an internal system within a company to know that someone has put a deposit down, and if this were the case it would be odd that the friend has been refered to as 'in the trade' instead of 'works for the same company/dealership/dealer network' etc etc.

[JB 1]

Efbe said:

personally i'd go down the dealer myself and give the dealer such a fking grilling he'd be stting his teeth.
Pressure selling old timers really fks me off.

i wouldn't buy it whatever the car is, just because of this attitude. Also there will be no-one coming later to test drive. If there was, then he would be pushing them to look at a different car.

I am going to ring his fking neck thats for sure!

They have indeed bought the car bless them, they are amazing!

Pick it up in a couple of days. he also managed to sell them 15 months worth of warrenty! Cant wait to meet 'Pete'

[JB 1]

deveng said:

The universal system of putting deposits down on cars. I would imagine it would have to be an internal system within a company to know that someone has put a deposit down, and if this were the case it would be odd that the friend has been refered to as 'in the trade' instead of 'works for the same company/dealership/dealer network' etc etc.

Its a back street independent, my friend who works up the road in another independent just said after I rang him for some advise said that it know says 'sold', so maybe he was looking on there website.

[lost in espace]

This does all make you sound ungrateful, accept the gift with grace! Its a gift not your own purchase ffs.

[JB 1]

lost in espace said:

This does all make you sound ungrateful, accept the gift with grace! Its a gift not your own purchase ffs.

It does make me sound awfully ungrateful I know.

It is the way the Sales man has done it in a way that we really had no choice but to accept, with out even talking to my OH first.

My grandparents are truly amazing with hearts of gold and I really do feel that they were tricked and sneakily forced into buying this car, which unfortunately has left a very bitter taste in ones mouth.

[slipstream 1985]

JB 1 said:

just had a call from my grandparents who on the way back from shoppinh have stopped off at a dealership where they have fallen in love woth a little skoda that they now want to by for my girlfriend!

I hope your planning on marrying this girl. Because your grandparents obviously have her down as part of the family.

[JB 1]

slipstream 1985 said:

I hope your planning on marrying this girl. Because your grandparents obviously have her down as part of the family.

Haha they do indeed! so do I so its ok.....

[Muzzer]

JB 1 said:

deveng said:

The universal system of putting deposits down on cars. I would imagine it would have to be an internal system within a company to know that someone has put a deposit down, and if this were the case it would be odd that the friend has been refered to as 'in the trade' instead of 'works for the same company/dealership/dealer network' etc etc.

Its a back street independent, my friend who works up the road in another independent just said after I rang him for some advise said that it know says 'sold', so maybe he was looking on there website.

They took a deposit this morning and updated their website straight away?

Something isn't ringing right here.

[jaymzfc]

Grandparents buying girlfriend a car,as in free, as in gift.

Accept it, be grateful, think how many people get something like this, then say thank you.

Not even worth putting up on here to be honest.

[JB 1]

Muzzer said:

They took a deposit this morning and updated their website straight away?

Something isn't ringing right here.

What do you mean?