Car leasing - Black Friday?

bethsdad

Hi all,
My car is terminally ill. Been looking at financing a new one, and I think leasing will be the best option for me. I did wonder if it would be best to wait until Black Friday to get the best deal - not sure if this affects car lease deals. Also, is there any other 'best time' to get a lease deal (end / start of month etc).

Also, how long does it take to get a car delivered? My current MOT runs out on 7th December, and I don't think it's going to be worth going through the expense of putting it through. I'm not particularly fussy about colour or optional extras.

Any thoughts?

BeenThroughItAll

Black Friday?

Cornucopia

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Black Friday?

When people go to the shops to fight over cheap TVs. It's the day after the US Thanksgiving Holiday - 25 November.

I can't imagine that will make any difference at all to Leasing rates. And 25 Nov - 7 Dec is tight for a car purchase, especially one carried out at a distance.

BeenThroughItAll

Cornucopia wrote: »

When people go to the shops to fight over cheap TVs. It's the day after the US Thanksgiving Holiday - 25 November.

I can't imagine that will make any difference at all to Leasing rates. And 25 Nov - 7 Dec is tight for a car purchase, especially one carried out at a distance.

Oh, another pointless fabricated US thing infecting the UK like Halloween. I see, thanks!

Cornucopia

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Oh, another pointless fabricated US thing infecting the UK like Halloween.

Yes, exactly that.

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Unlike the UK however, where "sales" are just a way of offloading cheap tat, you can get quite good prices for things like US newsgroup access, Newsdemon always have a very cheap rate on black Friday.
Apple reduce their prices from stupendously expensive to just ridiculously overpriced too

Richard53

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Oh, another pointless fabricated US thing infecting the UK like Halloween. I see, thanks!

To be fair, we have celebrated Hallowe'en since Anglo-Saxon times (Old English halwe = saint). It's only become a tacky excuse to go out dressed like a rotting corpse and get drunk quite recently. Originally, it was a very sombre occasion, when we remember all those who have died (and in pre-Christian times, the feast of Samhain, when the dead were thought to revisit the earth).


Fabricated, no. But re-imagined for the any-excuse-to-get-p!ssed generation, yes.

BeenThroughItAll

Richard53 wrote: »

To be fair, we have celebrated Hallowe'en since Anglo-Saxon times (Old English halwe = saint). It's only become a tacky excuse to go out dressed like a rotting corpse and get drunk quite recently. Originally, it was a very sombre occasion, when we remember all those who have died (and in pre-Christian times, the feast of Samhain, when the dead were thought to revisit the earth).


Fabricated, no. But re-imagined for the any-excuse-to-get-p!ssed generation, yes.

Yeah, OK. I was aware of all of that, and I should probably have clarified I was referring to the modern idiot's re-imagining led by the USA wherein it's considered OK for gangs of out of control children to terrorise the streets with eggs, stones, whatever, and to knock on doors demanding free stuff and taking offence when you tell them you're not interested in Halloween.

But that would have taken longer to type

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I've got my "No witches allowed" poster up

Next up the "No wassailing" one

Richard53

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Yeah, OK. I was aware of all of that ... <snip> ... But that would have taken longer to type

I wasn't doubting your knowledge, more amplifying what you said. I'm a bit of a pedant over these things

BeenThroughItAll

Richard53 wrote: »

I wasn't doubting your knowledge, more amplifying what you said. I'm a bit of a pedant over these things

Gotcha, no worries