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Because car traders generally offer much, much lower than advertised "because ive got to make a margin on it" like that is the sellers problem, they fumnily enough don't like to be knocked down much themselves! The same as a lot of traders when using mechanics/bodyshops always use the line "I havent got much in this one" when asking for a quote. If they never had much in anything then they wouldn't be making a living!
Not all traders are like this but a lot are hence the reputation.
Not all traders are like this but a lot are hence the reputation.
Yeah, don't see it as much these days, but in the 90's when most cars got sold through the Freeads or Autotrader you used to see "no traders" and "no canvassers" all the time.
In my experience, anyone in the trade buying cars out of the Freeads, were guaranteed to be a nightmare to deal with. Nitpicking over the smallest things and then bidding you so low, even Mike Brewer would blush.
In my experience, anyone in the trade buying cars out of the Freeads, were guaranteed to be a nightmare to deal with. Nitpicking over the smallest things and then bidding you so low, even Mike Brewer would blush.
My experience is that traders haggle more than private buyers.
We recently sold our 523i F10, only wanted £7k for it and someone from London (we live in Kent) agreed to come and look at it and offered £6500 over the phone beforehand. Agreed and said I wouldn't drop a penny lower. He got there and you could tell he was a trader from a mile off despite swearing blind he wasn't. I couldn't care less what he does with it as long as I get the money but he had the cheek to drop another £100 once he got there.
I said no initially and held out for like 30 mins of him going on but he knew and I knew that I wasn't going to refuse and potentially have to deal with time wasters for £100 so I agreed. Its £100 more in his pocket when he bangs it for sale at £8.5k that afternoon.
You can usually tell the private ones from the traders and I find the traders are willing to low ball and haggle far more.
We recently sold our 523i F10, only wanted £7k for it and someone from London (we live in Kent) agreed to come and look at it and offered £6500 over the phone beforehand. Agreed and said I wouldn't drop a penny lower. He got there and you could tell he was a trader from a mile off despite swearing blind he wasn't. I couldn't care less what he does with it as long as I get the money but he had the cheek to drop another £100 once he got there.
I said no initially and held out for like 30 mins of him going on but he knew and I knew that I wasn't going to refuse and potentially have to deal with time wasters for £100 so I agreed. Its £100 more in his pocket when he bangs it for sale at £8.5k that afternoon.
You can usually tell the private ones from the traders and I find the traders are willing to low ball and haggle far more.
Wagonwheel555 said:
My experience is that traders haggle more than private buyers.
We recently sold our 523i F10, only wanted £7k for it and someone from London (we live in Kent) agreed to come and look at it and offered £6500 over the phone beforehand. Agreed and said I wouldn't drop a penny lower. He got there and you could tell he was a trader from a mile off despite swearing blind he wasn't. I couldn't care less what he does with it as long as I get the money but he had the cheek to drop another £100 once he got there.
I said no initially and held out for like 30 mins of him going on but he knew and I knew that I wasn't going to refuse and potentially have to deal with time wasters for £100 so I agreed. Its £100 more in his pocket when he bangs it for sale at £8.5k that afternoon.
You can usually tell the private ones from the traders and I find the traders are willing to low ball and haggle far more.
You should have held out. He traveled an hour to see the car and still wanted to buy it once he had seen it. There was no way he was going to leave without it. We recently sold our 523i F10, only wanted £7k for it and someone from London (we live in Kent) agreed to come and look at it and offered £6500 over the phone beforehand. Agreed and said I wouldn't drop a penny lower. He got there and you could tell he was a trader from a mile off despite swearing blind he wasn't. I couldn't care less what he does with it as long as I get the money but he had the cheek to drop another £100 once he got there.
I said no initially and held out for like 30 mins of him going on but he knew and I knew that I wasn't going to refuse and potentially have to deal with time wasters for £100 so I agreed. Its £100 more in his pocket when he bangs it for sale at £8.5k that afternoon.
You can usually tell the private ones from the traders and I find the traders are willing to low ball and haggle far more.
littlebasher said:
Yeah, don't see it as much these days, but in the 90's when most cars got sold through the Freeads or Autotrader you used to see "no traders" and "no canvassers" all the time.
In my experience, anyone in the trade buying cars out of the Freeads, were guaranteed to be a nightmare to deal with. Nitpicking over the smallest things and then bidding you so low, even Mike Brewer would blush.
No canvassers was a totally different thing. In the bad old days, canvassers were people who would ring you up, ask about the car you had for sale, and then try to persuade you to advertise that car in whichever publication they were representing. Extremely annoyingIn my experience, anyone in the trade buying cars out of the Freeads, were guaranteed to be a nightmare to deal with. Nitpicking over the smallest things and then bidding you so low, even Mike Brewer would blush.
sandman77 said:
Wagonwheel555 said:
My experience is that traders haggle more than private buyers.
We recently sold our 523i F10, only wanted £7k for it and someone from London (we live in Kent) agreed to come and look at it and offered £6500 over the phone beforehand. Agreed and said I wouldn't drop a penny lower. He got there and you could tell he was a trader from a mile off despite swearing blind he wasn't. I couldn't care less what he does with it as long as I get the money but he had the cheek to drop another £100 once he got there.
I said no initially and held out for like 30 mins of him going on but he knew and I knew that I wasn't going to refuse and potentially have to deal with time wasters for £100 so I agreed. Its £100 more in his pocket when he bangs it for sale at £8.5k that afternoon.
You can usually tell the private ones from the traders and I find the traders are willing to low ball and haggle far more.
You should have held out. He traveled an hour to see the car and still wanted to buy it once he had seen it. There was no way he was going to leave without it. We recently sold our 523i F10, only wanted £7k for it and someone from London (we live in Kent) agreed to come and look at it and offered £6500 over the phone beforehand. Agreed and said I wouldn't drop a penny lower. He got there and you could tell he was a trader from a mile off despite swearing blind he wasn't. I couldn't care less what he does with it as long as I get the money but he had the cheek to drop another £100 once he got there.
I said no initially and held out for like 30 mins of him going on but he knew and I knew that I wasn't going to refuse and potentially have to deal with time wasters for £100 so I agreed. Its £100 more in his pocket when he bangs it for sale at £8.5k that afternoon.
You can usually tell the private ones from the traders and I find the traders are willing to low ball and haggle far more.
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