Before I contact the dealer I just thought I'd check with people on the forum first. I ordered my vRs from Marlborough Skoda via DtD back in January. And today I was just double checking the email I received from them and on the order there is a delivery charge of 434.78 (exc VAT).

Considering I'll be picking the car myself I was wandering whether this is the delivery charge for the car coming from Skoda to them or whether they are charging me to pick up the car? :'(

Edited 23 March, 201016 yr by veedub210

How do you think it gets from Slovakia to your dealer, hmm?

That's what I thought it was but at the same time I was hoping I could get this back and use it towards the insurance. :p

How do you think it gets from Slovakia to your dealer, hmm?

Just an additional stealth tax and a method to make more money . In my mind if you are doing a vat free deal ethically the vat should be knocked off the on the road price and thats it . No additional delivery charge .

The skoda way seems to be to add the delivery charge on top of the listed price before vat and then sting you with the delivery charge that is grossly inflated .Just my opinion . :no:

Edited 23 March, 201016 yr by bluevrs200

The price from dtd should be inclusive of all of that . Did he skoda dealer add the delivery charge on top ??

What he said the DtD price is inclusive of delivery on their website, do you just mean it is listed as part of the breakdown of costs? On another note as anyone ever tried to pick their car up from CZ to avoid the delivery charge, is it possible/ allowed by SUK?

I paid just a VAT free price for my car? i.e. and OTR minus VAT, and the dealer didnt add anything extra to cost

Edited 23 March, 201016 yr by gorebrush

I've just double checked my original quote from DtD and this is exactly the same. Therefore all Marlborough have done is given a full breakdown of the order which also shows the delivery cost.

Nevermind it's killed a few hours though!

Before I contact the dealer I just thought I'd check with people on the forum first. I ordered my vRs from Marlborough Skoda via DtD back in January. And today I was just double checking the email I received from them and on the order there is a delivery charge of 434.78 (exc VAT).

Considering I'll be picking the car myself I was wandering whether this is the delivery charge for the car coming from Skoda to them or whether they are charging me to pick up the car?

Have you ever tried finding a box and wrapping paper and postage to fit a car???

Dealers add a delivery charge so that they can advertise a lower price and get you in the door. Together with paying for (metalic) paint, a spare tyre and smoker's kit, you're talking a grand.

Another reason, which applies here in Ireland, and used to apply in the UK from the 1970's until recently, is the avoidence of sales tax on the 600 notes they ask for delivery.

Sales tax was retained in the UK for cars when VAT was introduced. Vehicle Registration Tax in Ireland is up to 36% on top of the car's value. It makes sense to invent stuff you can add to the value of the sale but not to the taxable value of the car.

Since there is no longer sales tax in the UK and dealers are having to work hard for sales I would expect "delivery charges" to quietly disappear over time. I have already seen on DTD that metalic paint is a no cost option on Roomsters.

Car's have a list price, and an "on the road" price. Generally, companies quote OTR prices, but some might try it on

G'day all

In Australia, because of this ripoff approach of dealers and manufacturers(and other industries) which mislead people to beleive the car was attractively priced and then getting slugged large amounts for often arbitrary extra charges, things changed dramatically last year. The government legislated that prices advertised must be the all in price. So a car price must be the driveaway price.no more to pay. Of course, the dealers and car makers said it would be the end of the world as we now know it, it's impossible to price a car on websites when registration charges and taxes vary from state to state, the milk would turn sour and every dealer and car maker employee would be unemployed within 2 weeks, and no price would ever be revealed to a customer again until they had bought hte car.. Surprisingly none of this came true. Websites now give driveaway pricing by postcode - easy, really.

Airlines and travel agents were caught too, because they had been advertising cheap flights that miraculously doubled in cost once they charged you for walking through the door, being born on a Monday, having shoes larger than size nine, or smaller, or no shoes, or haveing the temerity to pay by credit card. Since no other payment method was available, many customers thought this was just a teensy bit less than fair.

In Australia, delivery charges were known in the trade as "the $1000 car wash" although the joke is on the customer as the charge is now a minimum of $1600 and often ranges from $2000 up to really silly numbers. I just tell them as soon as they go through the routine of writing down the prices, to cross it out or I walk. In the trade it is regarded as a margin to be given away to make the customer feel better.

However, in Oz the dealer pays only transport from the manufacturers holding yard(usually nearest port) to the dealership -not much. Surpise, surpise, the delivery charge is similar whether the dealer is 1km or 1000kms from teh yard. It is supposed to also cover the clean and emoval of plastic protector sheets etc and final inspection for the car before delivery. Not big.

On the other hand, here there is very little margin (by comparison to other retail industries) on new car sales so they will do anything to maximise their margin. I guess what most people object to is the lack of transparency and the seeimingly dodgy approach to doing a deal. Car dealerships are very unprofessional by comparison to most other significant personal or busines transactions. And I have worked in the trade (long ago)

Cheers

powerd