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Old 11 January 2002, 12:55 PM
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A dealer once accidently gave me a 10% discount. He put the deposit cheque in his shirt pocket and I reckon it went in the wash. This dealer sold loads of cars that day (for Aug 1 delivery for a new L plate) and I reckon they were too embarrassed to ask all their customers if they'd paid. I waited 6 months and 1 minute before spending the deposit.

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Old 31 October 2002, 09:51 PM
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For cash?

On a 16k car they must be making at least 4k on the car, biggest I've ever had was 1k off the screen price on MY99 18 months ago for a cash deal with no px.



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I went along to Lancaster (and I'm sure he's on here), asked about a car which was up for £14,995 screen price and he instantly gave me £500 off, so I walked out and said call me if you wanna do a "deal", a week later he did, to cut a long story short I got £1000 off the screen price and got a Tracker Monitor in with the bargin
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I got £1,500 off a brand new £7K fiesta and 0% finance off a Ford Dealer, yes he needed to sell a few cars at the end of the year.
Old 31 October 2002, 10:23 PM
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not cash, but got 2.5k off a new P1, my p/x was an sti5 typeR, and a subaru dealer took it for what i was asking!
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A subaru dealer took in an import?
Old 31 October 2002, 10:29 PM
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I got a 35% discount from the advertized price once.

Picked up a B reg Nova saloon from a dealer for 200 quid. He originally asked for 300 Sold it to an ex for 350 a year later
Old 31 October 2002, 10:35 PM
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well if we're playing that game I bought a nova for £1800, had two smashes in it both not my fault, they paid out £1400 for the first one and let me keep the car, I then fixed it for £700 (£700 profit) then I crashed again and did something similar and made £200 and then someone crashed into it just before selling it and I got £500 from a company who didnt want me to take them to court, then sold car for £1000 so paid £1800 and got back £2400 for it, had it 3 years in all and it didnt have a single thing go wrong except needing some new discs and pads once! then my mate had it for a year and someone stole it and wrote it off, kinda off beat but a nice story about the money

Edited to say, I know, thats 3 not 2!

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Old 01 November 2002, 12:37 PM
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Old 01 November 2002, 12:43 PM
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I managed to get nearly £2000 knocked off a Puma (including extra options) - also end of quarter and needed to sell....
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Not a direct discount per se, but when I bought my Jaguar X-Type I wanted to 'fully load' it, and with a bit of persuasion the dealer did over half of the options I wanted for free. Saved me approximately £2.5k.
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...just talked £1500 quid of my MY99 scoob..

...deals for cash aint really happening anymore cos us sale peeps get more commission for getting folks on finance..
Old 01 November 2002, 01:20 PM
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I got 2k off the ticket price of my STI-V (Did know the dealer tho) but it still counts
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got fiesta zetec S registered jan this year with full extras, should be around £12-£13k, got for £7500

brother works for ford so i spose that got something to do with it but i got more off by agreeing to have finance, then payed it off 2 months later.

they want u to go finance as they get commission, agree to it then pay it off shortly after, u also get a rebate cos u pay it off early.

this works on ford finance, not sure on others!!!
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