Hi All

Thanks to a great deal of advice and more from here, I decided to go for an Octavia Diesel Elegance.

After a good bit of to-ing and fro-ing :thumbdwn:, including a visit to a dealer who told me on the phone he had such a car, diesel, elegance, 2006 12k miles, got there next day, 30 miles or so away, and it was a Classic, not Elegance. Not a happy bunny. then tried to sell me two Estates, nice cars, and I think the dealer made a genuine mistake over the phone, but I wanted a hatchback. So, onto DM Keith, Leeds yesterday. Saw a nice car but just a bit too dear, on the road. So haggled for a hour, but walked away. They phoned this morning - we don't want you to be unhappy Sir.. come and see us. So, did so, got a good deal, taxed, serviced, MOT, some remedial work done, Parrot handsfree installed (paying half).

So I'm the proud owner - well, will be come early next week - of 2006 Octy 1.9TDi Elegance in Silver. 35k miles.

Thanks all for your advice and PMs and ideas.

Cheers

Bazzman

Edited 25 June, 200916 yr by Bazzman

Hi Simbo

Thanks for your comments, couldn't agree more with many at Keith. One or two were OK though.

"fat bloke in jeans wanted to pay by cash & was genuine/not a time waster" You're talking about me!

BTW, that snooty sales girl, was she very skinny? If so, she was snooty with me too, didn't want to know and gave me one word answers till the Gen Manager came over and apologised for the salesman I'd booked to see being busy. If it was the same girl, you'd have thought she'd be a liability to a sales firm. Maybe the boss's wife/girlfriend!

Sold my original car back to he supplying dealer on Monday, - was an unreliable lemon - so was also a cash buyer, no part-exchange, you'd have thought they'd not let me walk away, or even as the first place i went to did, totally wasted my morning.

Keiths did to me the same as you yesterday, made an appointment with me for 1.30, I got there and the sales guy was with a customer. (As it happened, they were buying a new car and were with him for 2 hours. I can see the dilemma, they came in on spec at 1pm, what's a salesman to do?) SO anyway, the general manager, who was a bit arsey the day before (fat bloke in jeans syndrome :confused:) was Mother Theresa yesterday, and after a LOT of haggling, we did the deal.

I suppose dealers do have a lot of tyre-kickers, dunno what percentage of people say that they want a car and then don't follow up.

Any (anonymous) dealers on the forums want to tell us what they think of car-buyers?

Bit risky me thinks

Cheers

Bazzman

Edited 25 June, 200916 yr by Bazzman

Congrats on haggling - always worth it.

Dunno about what car dealers think of punters but I enjoy getting one over them.

My car - advertised as 30K 57 reg VRS TFSi . Test drove it , turns out to be 20K VRS Diesel.

Price £10900. Should have been £13000, so bought it before they could up the price.

Happy with my purchase...

Wooo! good deal, nice one!

I'm obviously shallow and superficial, but I SO enjoy getting a good deal from a car dealer.

I'be bought several cars over my time, none new, always a year or more old, and so many times, I got home, and, well, I thought: I've been done over big time.

But sometimes you do get a great deal, yours sounds just that!

But buying a depreciating asset is never going to be fun, unless like most of us on this forum, you love cars. Then of course, logic goes out the window.:rotz: