Negotiating on used car price

ontheroad1970

VW Fleet Services would have been a previously leased car - could have been pool car or leased to a company and a single person used it.  

Herzlos

plumb1_2 said:

I’ve been to a couple of dealerships in the last few weeks, both were non negotiable on the price.
But in my post above I’ve been keeping watch on a couple of cars for about 3 weeks and prices falling, so why no negotiation?

You can try, but I think gradually dropping prices is how it works now. Dealers will be paying close attention to car prices especially since the market is a bit volatile, and will be presumably assessing the prices on a weekly basis at least.

As mentioned, the sticker price needs to be competitive for anyone to even ask about it.

If you've seen the price drop and it's been there a while, then there's certainly nothing wrong with you making them an offer on it, even if it's something like "I see that car XYZ is up for £10k, give me a call when you'll take £9k for it".

plumb1_2

ontheroad1970 said:

VW Fleet Services would have been a previously leased car - could have been pool car or leased to a company and a single person used it.  

So would people expect a fleet car to be a lower price , even though it’s had it main dealer services.

ontheroad1970

plumb1_2 said:

ontheroad1970 said:

VW Fleet Services would have been a previously leased car - could have been pool car or leased to a company and a single person used it.  

So would people expect a fleet car to be a lower price , even though it’s had it main dealer services.

In the old days perhaps as the mileage would have tended to be higher. Difficult to say at the moment.