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Local dealership closing down but not pushing sales of remaining stock by fatherted
Jan 22, 2009 (11:35 am)
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Local Ford dealership is closing at the end of January so I went by the other day to check on a Flex/Taurus X. They had a few in stock but were not prepared to go lower than the standard Employee Pricing Plus Cash. I already had quotes from another local Ford dealer for lower but they not interested in going any lower. I'm not in a huge rush to buy right now so I don't really care. They said their new stock will go back to Ford and their used to a wholesaler should they not sell by the end of next week. A bit strange I thought.
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Re: Local dealership closing down but not pushing sales of remaining stock [fatherted] by volvomax
Jan 22, 2009 (12:05 pm)
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Replying to: fatherted (Jan 22, 2009 11:35 am)

If Ford is willing to take back the inventory, there is no need for them to lose any more money. Is there?
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Re: Local dealership closing down but not pushing sales of remaining stock [volvomax] by boomchek
Jan 22, 2009 (12:27 pm)
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Replying to: volvomax (Jan 22, 2009 12:05 pm)

Otherwise if they didn't care about how much they lose on each unit, then the staff might as well buy up their own dealership's inventory for $1/each, and resell it privately.
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Re: Local dealership closing down but not pushing sales of remaining stock [volvomax] by golic
Jan 22, 2009 (12:45 pm)
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Replying to: volvomax (Jan 22, 2009 12:05 pm)

Unless there is an administrative cost to send cars back, or a cost for shipping/transporting cars back to Ford. Then I would agree.
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Re: Pricing for used vehicles in Canada (TMV like)? [cdn_tch] by oldfarmer50
Jan 22, 2009 (3:15 pm)
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Replying to: cdn_tch (Jan 21, 2009 8:04 pm)

"...dealers here are generally asking 50-60% over top blackbook price..."
 
I guess it's the same all over. Here, (upstate NY) they ask 2-3K over KBB retail prices. I just don't get the "home run" mentality.
 
BTW, here it's called Kelley Blue Book.
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is it? by explorerx4
Jan 22, 2009 (3:48 pm)
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door #1
 
or
 
door #2
 
or
 
door #3
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Re: is it? [explorerx4] by boomchek
Jan 22, 2009 (5:45 pm)
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Replying to: explorerx4 (Jan 22, 2009 3:48 pm)

Whichever the buyer wants it to be.
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Re: is it? [explorerx4] by bolivar
Jan 22, 2009 (9:59 pm)
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Replying to: explorerx4 (Jan 22, 2009 3:48 pm)

It's rolling the miles up. From 153,000 to 207,000. Or maybe its just how the light hits that odometer.
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Re: Pricing for used vehicles in Canada (TMV like)? [oldfarmer50] by volvomax
Jan 23, 2009 (7:26 am)
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Jan 22, 2009 3:15 pm)

I guess it's the same all over. Here, (upstate NY) they ask 2-3K over KBB retail prices. I just don't get the "home run" mentality
 
If you don't ask, you don't get.
 
Remember, you can ask whatever you want, it's what you finally sell the car for that matters.
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Re: Pricing for used vehicles in Canada (TMV like)? [volvomax] by cdn_tch
Jan 23, 2009 (7:42 am)
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Replying to: volvomax (Jan 23, 2009 7:26 am)

The thing is, here in Canada the info for the consumer is minimal, we have to buy our invoice pricing for new cars, and it is difficult to go in to negotiate on a used car if you don't have any reference point on used cars. That is why I asked my original question. I guess a rephrasing of the question would be, what could one reasonably expect off of posted pricing on a used vehicle?

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