Secondhand cars - why don't dealers prepare them before they go up for sale?

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Orb the Impaler
12/08/2007 at 14:18
I agree with Nige - we were looking for a C-Class coupe for Mrs Orb(s) and some stuff was appalling. What kind of nobhead dealer gets a car like that in stock and then puts cheap shit Russian tyres on it? Walk away....

I did however find an absolutely *mint* example (turbot diseasel, leather, glass roof, Evo pack) with a totally unmarked interior - in Doncaster so a fair trek. So I bought it. It's luvverly.
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Mr Tibbs
12/08/2007 at 14:39
Orb the Impaler wrote

(turbot diseasel, leather, glass roof, Evo pack) with a totally unmarked interior


Hmm, sounds a bit fishy to me.
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falcorob
12/08/2007 at 14:41
Orb the Impaler wrote
I agree with Nige - we were looking for a C-Class coupe for Mrs Orb(s) and some stuff was appalling. What kind of nobhead dealer gets a car like that in stock and then puts cheap shit Russian tyres on it? Walk away....

I did however find an absolutely *mint* example (turbot diseasel, leather, glass roof, Evo pack) with a totally unmarked interior - in Doncaster so a fair trek. So I bought it. It's luvverly.


Must be beautiful if you went to Doncaster (cough) for it.

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cucumber
12/08/2007 at 14:59
Big Nige wrote
Maybe...but ask yourself this..I walked away from buying a nearly new V8 Jaguar Sovereign not because of the deal being offered but because of the way the car was presented



How were the nearly new Mercs presented?
Big Nige
12/08/2007 at 15:36
cucumber wrote
How were the nearly new Mercs presented?


Very well from the few I looked at in one dealer but then we bought a new one so didn't really pay too much attention tbh.
editor
12/08/2007 at 15:55
agreed-it's mad. Suppose what you could have done is make a really silly offer. Or just f*ck off somewhere else, as you did.

I've never sold a car that I didn't spend half a day prepping.

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Phil_ER5
12/08/2007 at 15:57
Its the same down the lower end of the car buying market too. I ended up buying (a few years ago now) a nice, clean, well presented 106D from a small garage after rejecting the stack 'um high and sell um quick shite from the main dealers.

Its no wonder some is in such poor condition tho, as we took the g/fs car in for a service yesterday to see staff turning up in 07 reg company cars with trim simply hanging off and utterly covered in scratches. Ours was about the best presented car in the garage with barely a mark on it (until the mechanic scratched hell out of the sill and then didn't tell anyone :mad
Big Nige
12/08/2007 at 15:58
Last car I sold privately was our Puma.
I spent ages prepping it and detailing it and I posted high qual pics up.

I had 6 or 7 people clammouring for it in the end and got what I advertised it for.

Makes a hell of a difference.
Phil_ER5
12/08/2007 at 16:01
Big Nige wrote
Last car I sold privately was our Puma.
I spent ages prepping it and detailing it and I posted high qual pics up.

I had 6 or 7 people clammouring for it in the end and got what I advertised it for.

Makes a hell of a difference.


I bet you got a better price as a result of your effort too.

IF i look at a car that is clean, tidy and well presented, Im more likely to pay a good price for it too. Which is why, If I ran a garage, I would prep the cars going on display as by doing so, you remove points of negotiation and the "neglected" appearance that people dislike
iBurty
12/08/2007 at 20:01
Big Nige wrote
Maybe...but ask yourself this..I walked away from buying a nearly new V8 Jaguar Sovereign not because of the deal being offered but because of the way the car was presented to me and now I'm mouthing off about it on a (admitedly small) bulletin board.

Is that good for business?



btw, the dealer knows why I walked away, maybe it'll help, maybe it wont...he just looked blankly at me 'cos he didn't really have an answer (suspect his hands were tied by their sales policies)


Maybe they do good enough business as it is, so they don't need to try too hard.

Big Nige wrote
Last car I sold privately was our Puma.
I spent ages prepping it and detailing it and I posted high qual pics up.

I had 6 or 7 people clammouring for it in the end and got what I advertised it for.

Makes a hell of a difference.


The last car I sold, I had people clammouring to buy it, simply from the ad, that was before they had seen any more than a photo. First one to see it bought it. (It had been well prepared anyway, but I keep my cars like that all the time really.)

Maybe the preparation isn't that important?

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Big Nige
12/08/2007 at 20:07
We were the only customers there.

This was in the centre of London.

There were at least 2 mechanics doing naff all that I could see.
Business didn't look too hot to me about 3 weeks from the new reg.

Can't think why...
RiceBurner
12/08/2007 at 20:21
Big Nige wrote


btw, the dealer knows why I walked away, maybe it'll help, maybe it wont...he just looked blankly at me 'cos he didn't really have an answer (suspect his hands were tied by their sales policies)


I was about to ask if you told them about it.

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Fliptophead
12/08/2007 at 21:05
IME a lot of London dealers arent bothered in SH sales- they use inflated SH stock to persuade people to buy new.
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