Buying a car

Oshy

I saw a car in a dealership forecourt. It was on sale for £6000. I talked to the salesman looked at the car agreed to buy it and paid £600 deposit. He gave me a vehicle order form with all the details including the price. The arrangement was I would pay the balance today and collect the car tomorrow. I paid the balance then got a phone call from the manager. They have made a mistake the car should have been advertised at £8000. Do I have any rights?

[Deleted User]

Yes. You can get your deposit back. 

Alderbank

Deleted_User said:

Yes. You can get your deposit back. 

Better than that - you can get the whole £6000 back.

Whether you are entitled to anything more depends very exactly on when the agreed contract says the car becomes your property.
If title was transferred to you when you paid the purchase price in full then the car is now yours.
If, as is much more likely, it only becomes yours when you collect the vehicle and receive the keys and documentation, then you are only entitled to a full refund.

However they are a dealership and like to sell cars so although you do not have any further rights they might be keen to do some sort of deal...

Grumpy_chap

Oshy said:

I saw a car in a dealership forecourt. It was on sale for £6000. I talked to the salesman looked at the car agreed to buy it and paid £600 deposit. He gave me a vehicle order form with all the details including the price. The arrangement was I would pay the balance today and collect the car tomorrow. I paid the balance then got a phone call from the manager. They have made a mistake the car should have been advertised at £8000. Do I have any rights?

What type of car was it?
Was £6k obviously the wrong price?

Ath_Wat

This doesn't sound quite right to me.  If it was advertised for £6000, are you saying you paid the full £6000 for it?  Even if they had been intending to advertise it for £8K, 6K would be within the parameters of what they were likely to accept, I would have thought.  

I am not sure why they'd be doing this unless they are thinking "What have we got here, paid the sticker price, let's see what else they're prepared to do."

How reputable is this dealer?  What price have they actually suggested you should pay?  If they are saying "we were going to put £8000 on it so you have to pay that" I'd just do your best to walk away with your money back, even at the 6K, because I wouldn't trust them an inch.