New car from internet broker

mutley74

Family member wants a new C3 Picasso. Since last month prices have gone up by about £500. So did some internet searches and found a broker who said he swaps your details with a main dealer garage who can source the car required at a discounted price!
Sounds a bit too goo to be true, has anyone bought a car in this way?
http://www.lowpricecars.co.uk/index.html

smitchy73

never heard of them but you might want to try some more better known companies, try looking in Whatcar magazine, they give you target prices, and show deals that you should be able to get through dealers themselves, or indeed internet brokers, some companies even put out the details of what you're looking for and get the best price.

bikebarbie

Im sure what everyone is thinking is why only save £500 on a new car when you can save thousands on a nearly new with delivery miles or less than 1k miles...

daveyjp

We bought a Toyota that way through drivethedeal - they are still going and provide good service.

mutley74

When i spoke to this chap, he gives you an OTR price for model of car wanted, then if we want to proceed with a deal, he will exchange our contact details with a dealer. Then apparently we deal with a Citroen main dealer directly, and pay the dealer on a deposit, with balance on delivery, seems a bit too easy! guess he is on commission?

daveyjp

drivethedeal work in the same way. You pay a deposit to them, your next contact is from the supplying dealer who arrange everything else.

Alias_Omega

Compare the price between a car that has done less than 5,000 miles vs the price of a new car.

I once picked up a car in Dec 2004 that had done 12,000miles from a Renault Dealer, it was registered new March 2004. The owner did not realise the cost to run it, traded it in so i picked it up for £10,600 when they were £15,700 new.

A massive savings, and still a new car in both number plate and condition.

Susannah2011

Alias_Omega wrote: »

Compare the price between a car that has done less than 5,000 miles vs the price of a new car.

I once picked up a car in Dec 2004 that had done 12,000miles from a Renault Dealer, it was registered new March 2004. The owner did not realise the cost to run it, traded it in so i picked it up for £10,600 when they were £15,700 new.

A massive savings, and still a new car in both number plate and condition.

Agree)) It's thoughtful!

Flyboy152

mutley74 wrote: »

Family member wants a new C3 Picasso. Since last month prices have gone up by about £500. So did some internet searches and found a broker who said he swaps your details with a main dealer garage who can source the car required at a discounted price!
Sounds a bit too goo to be true, has anyone bought a car in this way?
http://www.lowpricecars.co.uk/index.html

I have had a look at their offers and trust me, you can get a pretty close, if not better, direct from the main dealers.

mutley74

Flyboy152 wrote: »

I have had a look at their offers and trust me, you can get a pretty close, if not better, direct from the main dealers.

the price we are getting from a local main dealer is about £500 more. This chap says if we are content with his price, he swaps my contact details with a main dealer, then i deal with them etc under their T&CS. I dont pay him a penny for a new car, only if getting used. But if i was going for a used car, i would personally prefer to actually be able to see the car first and check history etc before purchase.

vikingaero

This is exactly how Drive The Deal, Broadspeed, Carfile etc etc operate. They act as the internet introducer and once your details are passed to the UK dealer you contact is generally only with the UK dealer. The internet introducer is paid commission of around 1% of the deal which doesn't affect the price you ultimately pay. There's nothing dodgy about it whatsoever - we've used DTD, Broadspeed and Carfile successfully.

As to whether local dealers can match the prices - sometimes and invariably most of the time they don't. By then they've got your contact details to hassle you. With the internet brokers it's a pure sale with no hassle and no smarmy negotiating. One of my friends went to his Vauxhall dealer and negotiated with the salesman for a Corsa. He pulled out his online quote from DTD and the salesman refused to match it. So he ordered through DTD and was allocated the same salesman to handle the sale! Apparently the some salespeople aren't allowed to price match if there is an introduction from the internet broker.

DTD generally include delivery in their prices and others you have to collect from the supplying dealer which could be some distance from you.