Haggling Tips & Pointers

BeatMaster

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Just about to embark on trying to haggle for a Ford Fiesta Flame on behalf of my girlfriend.

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The car in question is priced @ £6499. The car is on a 2004 (54 Plate) with 17,000 miles, however parkers has the car priced @

with A/C - £6,205
without A/C - £5,860

I'm not sure if it does or doesn't have Air Conditioning, although the advert doesn't mention it so I presume it doesn't. Either way, it's not really a deciding point on the car for her.

Anyway, cut to the chase. She's got her current car to trade in which is a Citroen Saxo 2000 (V Plate) with 60,000 miles valued at £1,150 according to parkers. The MOT runs out this month so it's not really worth selling privately because the time you get it serviced and anything needs done it'll come to the price of selling privately, plus you save the hassle.

The Fiesta is at a Ford Main Dealer however there is also a local garage which must be in someway connected to Ford and they can get hold of the stock the main dealer has. Now my idea was to get the best deal out of him then go to the main dealer and say what they've offered and see if they can better it. Assuming they can, I can then go back and forward until the best deal is agreed whichever end. Then to be cheeky ask for the usual 12 months Tax & MOT, full tank of fuel and perhaps a set of Ford mats.

I know a guy that works at another Ford dealership and I remember him saying he could get £500 any of the used cars, so I assume this would be similar throughout other dealerships, its just getting it thats the problem!

Now the question, are there any tips or pointers people have in trying to achieve this? I'm sure it'll help others in a similar situation in the future too :)

Thanks,

BeatMaster :D
 
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Gibbo said:
Hi there

What I'd do is just walk in and say I want £1500 on the trade in and want that car at £5500, so paying a total of £4000 with your car traded in.

You gotta be confident and close to damn right cheeky, but they will either meet your demands or come damn close.
Take evidence too, look up your girlfriends car on autotrader and find the most expensive ones selling with similar mileage/age. Then find the car the garage has on the internet to make sure their internet price is not lower and also look for other examples, but this time find the cheapest ones. So then you can go in and say hey look out much our car is worth and hey look how cheap we found the same car as your selling from other dealers.

The result will be you getting a better all round deal.

When my mum got her car I did all the haggling, the end result was more for the trade in than book suggested which at the time was a Rover so to get more than value trade in for that was good going. Then got them to reduce the car by a further £750 of their list price. All in all they saved about £1000 on their purchase over what the dealer was originally trying to offer. Which was about 10%.
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Excellent! Just found a couple of Saxo's for £2,500 and 2 Fiesta Flame's for £5,700 and got them printed off :) Should definately help with the haggling though!

It's right what your saying, it's better to damn right full out cheeky otherwise if you just a little bit cheeky you'll wish you'd been that little bit more :p Hopefully by been a bit more adventurous she'll get the cheeky deal but by asking for the damn right full out cheeky deal ;)

Hopefully, dealers will be keen to get cars sold too with it been 2007 and all, fingers crossed!

BeatMaster :D
 
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