BMW and M Power Owners
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It is surely irrelevant if it is refundable and you are serious.
Edit: I paid a grand to secure my Merc, and luckily they "forgot" that they first K went onto a credit card when they pulled a face about me clearing the 31k balance on my other credit cards (for the points, baby!). So I actually ended up with 7k on a credit card when there rule was 6k.
Basically, it worked in my favour to pay the higher depo.
Edit: I paid a grand to secure my Merc, and luckily they "forgot" that they first K went onto a credit card when they pulled a face about me clearing the 31k balance on my other credit cards (for the points, baby!). So I actually ended up with 7k on a credit card when there rule was 6k.
Basically, it worked in my favour to pay the higher depo.
Commissario
I'm serious, they have reduced it to £500 but it's non refundable.
Caporegime
Hi guys, I've found a car at a BMW dealership, I've sorted my own finance etc.
They want 1k deposit to secure the car!? Does that sound right?
I expected £200-£300 pounds, but 1k seems a little steep.
I paid 500 recently to secure one.
How can it be non-refundable, what if you turn up and it's obvious the car has been poorly repaired etc? It happens, even at BMW AUC.
Commissario
That is what I said, but they argue if I pull out that they may have missed out on a potential sale with another buyer.
Not impressed, I'm tempted to walk and look elsewhere.
Imagine if they take three or four non refundable £1k deposits from potential customers? Nice little earner. Is it a rare or in demand car? When are you going to view it?
How rare is the car?
If there's clearly something wrong with it they will refund you anyway. Take it you're speaking to some sales guy not the sales manager or dealer principal at this stage. If you needed to you could get them involved to get your refund.
Commissario
No, not rare at all. It's a M140i, they have 3 or 4 more on their forecourt.
I was going to go and view at the weekend.
Soldato
If they've got 3 or 4 of them then don't pay it and take your chances and just turn up to view it anyway.
There's no way I'd pay a non-refundable deposit on a used car without seeing and driving it first.
Commissario
Oh man that's tough. Non refundable is bonkers. I'd walk out of principle but that isn't going to get you into a car! Very shady tactics!
How long have they had the car?
On the AUC site I think the first few digits of the advert ID is the date it was first added (shared platform with AutoTrader I think)
https://usedcars.bmw.co.uk/vehicle/202108276693470
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202108276693470
That for example - 20210827 - added on the 27th August 2021.
If they've had it up for weeks, I wouldn't necessarily panic too much that it'll be gone by Saturday anyway.
On the AUC site I think the first few digits of the advert ID is the date it was first added (shared platform with AutoTrader I think)
https://usedcars.bmw.co.uk/vehicle/202108276693470
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202108276693470
That for example - 20210827 - added on the 27th August 2021.
If they've had it up for weeks, I wouldn't necessarily panic too much that it'll be gone by Saturday anyway.
Commissario
Ta for that, 26th July 2021
30k not surprised!
Caporegime
I'd sack it off if they're being like that. Mine was conditional to it being in the advertised condition (spotless).
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When we got ours we just rang up and went straight over to see it. No deposit needed, just viewed, checked it over and even got a little bit off cos of a slight ding on the rear quarter. Paid £19k back in May i think it was, M140i with a lot of extras but unfortunately its white lol.
It's a 3.5 year old previous shape 4 Series for 30 grand
I meant Thundycat's car