Anyone purchased a vehicle via DriveTheDeal.com?

vikingaero

oldagetraveller wrote: »

Not wishing to become a "stuck record" after posting similar before.
Have you also tried your local dealers to see what they can offer? Go along armed with some internet prices from DDD and others.
Last November my local dealer beat all of them considerably without much argument.
Don't just assume that these brokers are the cheapest.

I did this every time we were in a position to buy a car. I went to the local dealer and and his reaction was: "You know the risks of buying off the internet?" "The cars are imports and they don't have the full warranty." and other assorted scare stories. He didn't believe me on price either until his boss checked online.

In the end they came enough to the price (about £200 more) to make the deal local but the crunch was his appalling attitude which made me decide to use DTD. Four of our Honda Jazz's from DTD came from Brindley Honda in Birmingham.

alared

I was about to order through DTD in March when at the very last moment my local Ford dealer,much to my amazement,matched the DTD price and so got my order.
They only did this when it was very clear that I wasn`t bluffing and I would not have hesitated to go through DTD,which I had read up about.
A relative of mine used http://www.autobytel.co.uk/index.aspx
but DTD offered a better price on the car I wanted.

daveyjp

Get a DTD price then go and hassle your local dealer. Some will match it some won't. Toyota wouldn't match it for us so we bought our Aygo via DTD. The only problem was the dealer was 200 miles away, but it arrived on time and all dealings were with the Toyota dealer once DTD confirmed which dealer it would be.

Car has had a warranty claim and a service at a local dealer and absolutely no issues whatsoever. I would recommend them.

PeteMc

I bought from them 7 years ago, it worked well but they couldn't meet the original delivery date and it caused some inconvenience for a couple of weeks. The car was delivered to my door and they arranged finance (I paid the deposit to them at the start of the process). Local dealer could not meet the price of the car or the finance package at the time.

I would possibly use them again or a similar service but as I've just bought a brand new car it will be a few years before I do.