Stories from the Sales Frontlines

Replying to: imidazol97 (Jul 02, 2009 7:16 am)

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Babecat did first tell her story on Edmunds Answers and her story was first linked here to try to get some additional help for her (thanks, Boomchek and Greanpea68!).
 
If you'll pardon the generalizations, people who find Answers generally want a quick response to a car problem and may have little interest in carrying on an online conversation with a bunch of strangers (fascinating though you may be ).
 
So I don't think you can tag the one-off label on people who come to the CarSpace forums like this. Some people join and post, some go to Answers, some write a consumer review and vent or laud that way. Who knows what their motives are (but rest assured that shills are easily spotted).
 
Steve (now going back to lurking host mode)

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Replying to: houdini1 (Jul 02, 2009 9:58 am)

"...ad in the local paper that included the $4500 clunker discount..."
 
Some of the base model PT Crusiers in my dealers lot had big numbers on them that said $4500 off. While it was true that you could get this price off the MSRP you had to be a horse breeding, ex-military current Chrysler owner, coming off a lease. You also had to select from dealer stock (which was 4 cars, none of which was the color "we" had to have). I took my $3500 discount instead and got the car she wanted.

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I had been hearing that with new car sales in the toilet people were turning towards used cars and this was driving the price up. I really didn't think much about it as I was not in the market for used and my old cars (newest is 12 y/o) would never be worth much as trades.
 
Well I replaced my 1997 Chrysler Cirrus with a new car this week and was thinking of selling it to my son. I had looked up the TMV on it several months ago and the "rough" value (yes, to be honest, it's rough cosmetically) was $896 for private party. I decided to look it up again to see how much it had depreciated in 3-4 months.
 
I was shocked to find that TMV for the same "rough" condition with several thousand more miles was now $1042 (16% increase).
 
Back in 2002 when I bought the car my salesman countered my use of TMV values by saying: "Those books don't keep track of the market. Used Chryslers have been going UP in value lately". I laughed at the time but now I'm wondering if he was right all along.
 
Have used cars really seen a 16% increase in prices in recent months? How long do you expect this to continue?
 
Who knows, if my Cirrus keeps going up in value maybe at some point I'll be able to trade it even for a new one.

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