How Gutted Am I

[mystery machine]

Dealers don't decide how much a car is worth - supply and demand dictates it. It doesn't take too much working out to see that a combination of petrol price rises, road tax hikes and talk of a 'credit crunch' have damaged the performance car market (if not the used car market as a whole).

So if they've been 'giving them away' it's simply because they aren't fetching as much as they were - and let's face it, if they really were such a 'giveaway bargain', the forecourts would be clear of them - and from my recent Scoob-hunting I can tell you that there are more than plenty to go around! As a private seller, you're subject to the same market forces as the dealers - so it's not so much a case of 'dealers driving down the value of your motor' as the market driving down the value of your motor and their motors.

Ye cannae whack the economy

[Guest GB270]

Yay got her back. And she is gleaming..... Had the best drive into work this morning. So missed that power, now the modding is going to start. What exhaust to get?

I'm thinking the same thing about mine. Let me know what exhaust you go for and what you think about it!

[FK1]

Dealers don't decide how much a car is worth - supply and demand dictates it. It doesn't take too much working out to see that a combination of petrol price rises, road tax hikes and talk of a 'credit crunch' have damaged the performance car market (if not the used car market as a whole).

So if they've been 'giving them away' it's simply because they aren't fetching as much as they were - and let's face it, if they really were such a 'giveaway bargain', the forecourts would be clear of them - and from my recent Scoob-hunting I can tell you that there are more than plenty to go around! As a private seller, you're subject to the same market forces as the dealers - so it's not so much a case of 'dealers driving down the value of your motor' as the market driving down the value of your motor and their motors.

Ye cannae whack the economy

Bogie,you need to listen to this man,he talks much sense since you seem to have a hatred to dealers,its stands to reason with such market force if any manufacturers bring the retail prices down then used values will follow suit.The key to this is to go with the deal you feel is right,if its not walk away,you are obviously bitter with experiences you have had in the past.It is a changing market place,but then so is any sales based experience at the moment,(have you tried giving property away recently?)

Mystery Machine you should get into car sales m8.lol

Brian

Edited September 11, 2008 by FK1

[plimpix]

Will do GB270 will be couple months tho need to save the cash. Just paid out 550 quid exess!

Edited September 11, 2008 by plimpix

[bogie]

Bogie,you need to listen to this man,he talks much sense since you seem to have a hatred to dealers,its stands to reason with such market force if any manufacturers bring the retail prices down then used values will follow suit.The key to this is to go with the deal you feel is right,if its not walk away,you are obviously bitter with experiences you have had in the past.It is a changing market place,but then so is any sales based experience at the moment,(have you tried giving property away recently?)

Mystery Machine you should get into car sales m8.lol

Brian

No hatred for dealers, bought all my scoobs from main dealers and have a great relationship with the one I have used for the last 5 yrs and always got excellent deals (that's why I go back), never actually had a bitter experience at any of the Scoob dealers I've used to date.

Just don't like to see Scoobs getting pushed into the market at silly prices, but if that's what's needed to shift them I'll just need bend over and take it! Doesn't hurt until change time anyway (that's the Scoob residual and not the taking it, ahem)

Anyway glad the original GB270 in question is getting sorted

Edited September 11, 2008 by bogie

[scoobyseller555]

yeh right

LOL

Gav

[scoobyseller555]

Gav might have to leave me motor at the garage every morning and walk to Camelon station for the train. So i know she will be very safe

Not a problem m8,give me a shout.

Gav

[mystery machine]

The key to this is to go with the deal you feel is right,if its not walk away

Absolutely, in a nutshell.

[mystery machine]

(that's the Scoob residual and not the taking it, ahem)