arnold clark not a real sale

GlynD

AC has been fined for dodgy advertising before afaik. As Captain Flack says above: Wouldn't touch them with a barge pole anyway.

john_white

Buzby wrote: »

They get away with it as it doesn't have to be like for like - try are pointing out that their car is half the OTR price of an equivalent model, and could well have been that car at some stage.

Since a resale will not incur Car Tax or VAT there are real savings that don't hit the dealer at all (unless a pre-reg), but as long as you compare via a decent app - like AutoTrader - you won't be fooled.

But you are not saving xxx you are buying a different product. If you think a 3 year old car is saving you xxx as implied by the advert you are mistaken.

londonTiger

MFi sales, my brother bought a really low quality kea the sofa for close to a grand from them. He could have bought a heirloom branded chesterfield for that price

oldhand

worried_jim wrote: »

My favorite is double glazing sales or buy one get one free. A fool and his money are soon parted!

Noone can beat the DFS sales,one ends another begins,all at half price "but hurry sale must end sunday"......

GlynD

oldhand wrote: »

Noone can beat the DFS sales,one ends another begins,all at half price "but hurry sale must end sunday"......

I've seen something on the telly recently which I'm almost sure was advertising one of these investigative journalism pieces on that very subject. Not before time either, it's an absolute mockery. I'm looking out for it now on the planner.

Personally I refuse to go into any shop which has a permanent sale on. I also had an interesting experience in one of them about 10m years ago when I offered to pay cash and asked for a discount. It's not how they do things apparently. They can offer you 0% finance or you can pay the full price but they're not able to offer discount for cash.

To me that says two things, and I was quick to point them out to the smarmy salesman.

1. The sofas are overpriced to pay for the finance.
2. They don't want cash sales because they want a full profit on each item sold.

After that experience (which was in GB) we bought most of our furniture from Reids although they weren't whiter than white either. I spent a week one day in one of their stores arguing that I didn't want insurance on the suite and tables I'd just bought. :mad:

dacouch

GlynD wrote: »

After that experience (which was in GB) we bought most of our furniture from Reids although they weren't whiter than white either. I spent a week one day in one of their stores arguing that I didn't want insurance on the suite and tables I'd just bought. :mad:

That is impressive.

I feel I've spent the same amount of time in a queue if I'm ever stupid enough to buy petrol in a Tesco Esso garage

Captain_Flack.

bigjl wrote: »

That vehicle is certainly not cheap unless a very high spec vehicle

Not heard anything positive about Arnold Clark though my sister bought a C4 Picasso from them two years ago which was fairly troublefree.

http://www.cargiant.co.uk/pda/detail.asp?id=614383&mk=Vauxhall&md=Corsa

That is a 2013/62 plate Corsa for £7499 + fees (£100 or so)

You are better off going to a similar car supermarket type place.

No frills, no hard sell(usually) and turn down any warranty, finance insurance, paint protection or seat protection products.

Buying inside the manufacturers warranty period is a very good idea.

Motorpoint seem decent enough from what I have been told

Though I always recommend CarGiant.

Partly because they have a good selection of cars at sensible prices and partly because it winds up the forum trolls.

More car giant what surprise.

GlynD

dacouch wrote: »

That is impressive.

I feel I've spent the same amount of time in a queue if I'm ever stupid enough to buy petrol in a Tesco Esso garage

They wouldn't take no for an answer. We'd just spent £2,500 on their furniture and they were determined they were going to sell us insurance, especially on the white leather Italian sofas we'd bought. Really the event was over in about 30 minutes but it felt like a lot longer. When I said no to the salesman he fetched the manager, when I said no to him he wheeled out an even higher up manager. All three of them were there pushing me to buy insurance I knew I didn't need.

Their big sales pitch was that their insurance was better than my home and contents package. I insisted it wasn't and had an answer for them every time, just because I'd reviewed my own insurance a short time before buying the furniture and had my facts more or less straight - pure coincidence.

They thought they had me when they asked if we had any pets and we'd replied that we had a cat. They said our cat would scratch the furniture and our home insurance wouldn't cover it. I assured them it would. They argued and said it wouldn't. I replied that I had specifically noted that "pet damage" was part of our policy.

I don't know how I stuck at it with them for so long but eventually I said I was cancelling my order and would buy from another retailer who didn't display such a shocking attitude to customers who wouldn't buy their unnecessary insurance. Really, I should have said that about 5 minutes into the conversation - if that's what you can call it.

When I thought about it on the way home I was furious and told the memsahib I was going to write to their head office. I mean, what would such an interrogation have done to an elderly person? Herself made me promise not to. I still think I should've. :mad:

NWOIHTS

A person I know who works in AC told me they buy cars en masse, register them as hire cars, or whatever loophole it is, so they don't need to pay the car tax - don't know the ins and outs of this but that was what they said - and then flog them a few weeks later as basically new cars with delivery mileage, or "real bargains" to you and me!

GlynD

NWOIHTS wrote: »

A person I know who works in AC told me they buy cars en masse, register them as hire cars, or whatever loophole it is, so they don't need to pay the car tax - don't know the ins and outs of this but that was what they said - and then flog them a few weeks later as basically new cars with delivery mileage, or "real bargains" to you and me!

Yes I can confirm I've heard this rumour too, along with the one that Arnold Clark was run out of Edinburgh in the 70's. Of course this was before he was "Sir Arnold Clark".

He used to appear in his own TV ads in Scotland and we used to shout at the screen. Juvenile yes, but it made us happy. :cool: