Hi All, Just wanted to see if this has happened to any of you guys recently. I contacted a Dealer who had a car advertised on Autotrader and his website at a price. When I contacted him about the car, he told me condition etc and then said the car would be £500 dearer if I wanted some very bad scratches/dents repaired. Now, these were never pointed out in the ad, in fact the car was advertised a 'clean example'.  The original price was about right for a good clean example with mileage etc. Now, this is only a car at around £3k so £500 extra is a big diff

My advice is to go and view the car.

 

The dealer MAY be over exaggerating the "bad" scratches. 

 

Look at the prices of similar/equivalent cars ... Is that vehicle priced lower?

 

It may cost £500 to have it repaired but it may not need repairing and it could be the dealer just wanting a higher price

 

Just noticed - its a 3k car. Deal with the scratches as 500 isnt worth it for the cars value

Edited 26 March, 20188 yr by hwr1983
Noticed additional info in OPs post

The 'original' price is about right for the car in good clean retail condition. The scratches I seen in pics were very noticeable along rear door, rear quarter and rear wing - also two bad dings in another door which are very noticeable.......oh, and a tail-lights broken.  

To cap all this, I rang another dealer with similar car (but lower price) and he says 'I think I have priced the car too low' - and he seems to be setting me up to ask for more!!

 

I won't be buying either one off dealers who do this....just wanted to see if anyone else has had this or am I just unlucky!

Seems like typical dealer ruses and who would actually say I going to or try to ask more for a car than the advertised price, walk, err run away from these type of places.