Hi

Just looking on the internet at prices for a new Roomster and saw a Roomster 3 1.9TDI for £11995 from Autofinders. As they state that it is supplied from a UK dealer, does anyone know which dealer they use?

Thanks in advance

/target hunting

Don't suppose you fancy a 1.9TDi 3 in Ocean Blue before the end of the month do you?

/end target hunting

As I understood it, there are two large players who back a number of the Internet 'deal' sites, from memory I recall Inchcape being one ... I've got the other noted down at home from my recent buying experience, but don't recall it off-hand.

Basically they are the conglomerate dealer chains who can afford to slice prices for sales share ... there are enough Skoda (or dealer) employees here that I'm sure one will point it out, its a particular annoyance to many of them!

FYI, I spec'ed a Roomster (Scout 1.9Tdi), using the Internet sites to cost a 'base' price, I then approached a number of local dealers and was open with them over the fact that I didn't expect them to absolutely match the price, but at least get on-terms with it ... the outcome being that two local dealers were very helpful and got close enough on the deal that I was happy to make a deal locally with one of them.

They understand the issues only too well and didn't mess around over price given they knew what I wanted and the terms ... there is margin for negotiation for most dealers, I'm happy to pay a small premium to keep the local service, time will tell whether the dealer deserved this faith and business ;-)

BTW, it was quite scary that one phone-call to an alternate dealer saw me save £3k over the price quoted by a third-dealer, who happens to be our closest outlet and through who we initially test-drove, but weren't open to any negotiation ... needless to say, they very quickly eliminated themselves from the running!

HTH

Craig

Edited 24 July, 200817 yr by silvermog
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Whilst this is meandering slightly OT, I had a similar experience, my local dealer Alex Lawrie were not open to any negotiation despite me buying 2 other cars from them on the Roomster so it was well worth my 460 mile round trip to Sparshatts in Fareham to save £2500 on the deal

I am shortly going to take great pleasure in passing my small warranty niggles over to my local dealer for correction

Hi

Just looking on the internet at prices for a new Roomster and saw a Roomster 3 1.9TDI for £11995 from Autofinders. As they state that it is supplied from a UK dealer, does anyone know which dealer they use?

Thanks in advance

as with most of these deals, it will either be in a colour or with options you dont want (which will be extra money of course) or it will be a factiry order. most of these will give you a delivery time over what a normal dealer with give you as they may decide to use your ordered car for an normal retail customer if one comes up and wants to pay the retail price.

as has been said i would go to your local dealer and just be honest, tell them what you want and tell them if they can get close enough to the figures you present you will put a deposit down now. it always helps to be forward with these things. what a dealer hates is when someone comes in doesnt talk about internet deals, takes up a sales exec's time and uses their demo car, then turns round and says unless you match the internet price im buying elsewhere!

He's right. Not much is more annoying then taking up our time only to be confronted with a ridiculous offer from an internet site. The only thing more annoying is when after the customer has driven to the ends of the earth to collect the new car the garage who supplied it didn't do the PDI properly and expects us to PDI it for nothing. I had a bloke who bought a vRS and thought he has something wrong with the suspension, turns out the supplying dealer didn't take the blocks out. Funny thing was I was only £330 out on the internet price. He had to pay for a flight up to Scotland and pay for fuel to get it back and then pay for a PDi so he was actually worse off! HA!

He's right. Not much is more annoying then taking up our time only to be confronted with a ridiculous offer from an internet site. The only thing more annoying is when after the customer has driven to the ends of the earth to collect the new car the garage who supplied it didn't do the PDI properly and expects us to PDI it for nothing. I had a bloke who bought a vRS and thought he has something wrong with the suspension, turns out the supplying dealer didn't take the blocks out. Funny thing was I was only £330 out on the internet price. He had to pay for a flight up to Scotland and pay for fuel to get it back and then pay for a PDi so he was actually worse off! HA!

thats spot on. the last person i sold a car too that was internet price mad, actually bought one from one site over another. he bought a elegance with lots of options. and what turns up on the delivery truck??

a standard elegance

in the wrong colour

Oops! I'm travelling 60-ish miles on Saturday to collect my 'new' Roomster, but as it'll take about 2 hours & cost about £20 I'm happy to do it as I'm getting a 1-yr-old car with 2k miles on the clock (plus not-even-optional on the 2 but on the car as it's an ex-Skoda UK car REAR DISC BRAKES) for a shade under 8 grand. Bearing in mind that I've been as far away as Wrexham (I live near Windsor in Berkshire) to collect a bike I'd bought unseen from ebay, Letchworth's not too far! As long as the car works okay I'm happy, if not there's the 2 years' remaining warranty to cover it. I have to mention at this point that I was up-front with my local dealer who promised to call the cheaper dealer (Progress in Letchworth FYI, who seem very good so far) to confirm a price for me to buy from them, but from whom I haven't heard since, thereby denying them the sale. Still, I'm happy so far & I've saved lots of money, so...

Rear discs are not unusual - I have them on my 2007 1.9TDi Roomster 2,

Stuart

(Progress in Letchworth FYI, who seem very good so far)

Top dealers,I brought mine from them:thumbup:.I could even have a free valet every 3 months if I lived nearer.

Hi

Thanks for all the replies

I will be visiting my local skoda dealer tomorrow but dont expect too much in the way of coming close to the intenet price as they wouldnt negotiate on the price of a fabia vrs a couple of years ago but I will quote the internet price to them at the start and report back...

Does the Ocean Blue roomster have roof rails and what is the price?

Hi

Does the Ocean Blue roomster have roof rails and what is the price?

Roof rails are only standard on the Scout but c. £125 plus fitting as a dealer fit accessory otherwise.

Can't remember if it has roof rails for not, will check tommorow when I'm back in the garage. But yeah Bahnstormer is right they are £125 but they take hours to fit and involve drilling holes in the car.