Not only did they insult you with only offering you $4000 they uped the price another $1000

 

I'm not trying to be a dick, but your car IS worth $3950 on trade in, according to Kelley. Retail, the thing is about $6400. This all assumes 80k miles and excellent condition (shiny paint, no dings, PERFECT)

It's just simple supply and demand. There's a glut of used cars right now due to trade ins, and base Stealths never had much demand to begin with. I don't make the rules, but I am forced to play by them

 

Actually, 4000 is a pretty good deal on your car for a trade in. When I was going to trade in my car to the dealer when it had problems, they wanted to give me $500 for it. I just laughed in their face and walked away. I could probably sell my rims for that much. Just a thought,
-Rich

 

The same thing happened to me when I bought my Stealth. I was going to trade in my 94 GMC, and figured that the truck and $4000 would seal the deal. I was wrong, they wanted the truck and $7000. I told them no way on the trade in but offered them $10,200 and a $5000 down payment, The saleman came back and said $10,800, and I just told him that $10,200 was as high as I was going and started to get out of my chair. Lets put it this way, he agreed to $10,200. He knew if I walked he lost the sale. The funny thing is I offered them $11,000 a week earlier, The dealership was asking $12,500. He said he allready had a buyer at $11,000 so refused my offer, typical car salesman trick. I sold my truck for $7500 a couple of weeks later. Car salesmen play games, just don't play. Find out what a fair retail price is, lay the offer on the table, and stick to your guns, Be prepared to walk out if you can't come to an agreement on price. Sell your car outright, you will make out better then trading it in but sometimes you will have to hold on to it for a while. With a small down payment it is pretty easy to get a loan on a vehicle then when you sell your car make a big payment to the loan company and you will take care of a lot of interest, or you could put that money into modifications.

Ray
3SI member 1222

 

you cant expect much of a trade in at the dealer, you can get way more money by selling it to someone. but that is pretty stupid that they said 15K with the trade in, thats only 2-3K for your car then. fuck dealerships, they suck anyways.....only go there if you want to buy new

 

That's ok, I test drove a SL spyder with a few problems (counting a lousy repaint) and they offered to give me $7 for BOTH of my cars TOTAL. AND, they wanted $25k for the SL spyder with 68k miles on it. I kindly laughed and walked away. They said they couldn't give me much for the 3000GT cause it had too many mods and it would be hard to sell. I told them I wouldn't have a problem selling it .

 

the dealer's right, nobody would want to buy a car with all those mods, it would be too fast..... and who'd wanna buy a car like that?

 

Those salesmen will always make it sound like such a good deal as they are ripping you off. You definately need to know what you are willing to pay when buying a car and what you're willing to expect from your trade in. (or selling it on your own)

Dont get to bent out of shape, you just need to play the game till you get the price you want from those places.

 

Yeah! I was offered an average trade in on my 97 base 3000GT and decided I'd rather try and sell it straight out. I picked up my 97 Pearl VR4 with 46,500 miles about 1.5 months ago for $24,900(minus tax and license). They had it for around $27,000 on the lot. It took me about 2 days to get them down to $24,900 which I originally started the offer at $24,500. I didn't mind to pay a lil more because the car seemed to be in pristine shape other than the badly scuffed rims which I found after I had bought it! And it still had some warranty on it.

All in all, I was happy with what I paid and felt I got a good deal on it. Kelly Blue Book says my car booked for $27,125 retail with 46,000 miles, so I don't think I did to bad.

 

What they're asking for the car doesn't matter. Neither does what they offer you for your car. You're interested only in <b>the difference</b> between the two. The actual figures don't mean squat.

Figure out a fair price for your car on the market. Then do the same for theirs. Take the difference between the two and that's what you're willing to pay, plus tax and a few hundred bux profit (they do have to make some profit).

Salesmen are taught to lowball your car's value so you do get insulted and focus on that number and not the pricing difference. Then they've got you to stop arguing the asking price of the car and to focus on what they're offering for yours. Then they'll go up a bit and if you buy, you're still paying more (because of a larger difference) than you may have otherwise done.

 

A 92 Dodge Stealth base is only worth about 4k. How much did you think it's worth? They don't care about what you did to it. They just give you the value of the car, and depending on milage, you may get less.

 

Agreed, I wouldn't pay more than 4000 for a base, even in great condition. I paid for my 92 ES (thats the DOHC engine) 5000 this may. Now they're even cheaper! But it's not really an ES anymore

 

you should check the value of your car buddy, I'd be happy to get $4000 for my car, I have a 92 base stealth as well, and trade in is like $2000......

 

Surely they would see the Deathsled emblem on back and think to themselves 'this car must be the diamond.. in the rough'

 

Just curious, how much were you hoping to get for your car on a trade? By th way, you shouldn't trade your car, sell it on your own, unless you have a shit load of problems, if you insist on trading, don't tell them that you have a trade until after you have negotiated a price on the car that they are selling. Dude, I have a 92 turbo, and I wouldnt be surprised to get offered 4000 for a trade on that. There is always room to move when a dealer is selling a car. They have to start high and negotiate down, otherwise they would be dropping their pants starting off. And if they wont budge on price, they will probably offer to throw shit in for free. Insist that they fix any and all problems with the car. And when you look at the car, point out all the negatives, they are going to do it to you when they look at your car. Sorry for going on for so long, just my two cents worth.

 

Kevin-

As I recall, there are some extenuating circumsances not in my right to bring up about the car. But I will say this-

Don't take offense if a dealer cannot quantify personal attachment to a car if it is there. To them, it is simply a product, something to sell and make a profit on. If it is more than that to you, then by all means take that into account.

-K

 

As I said in my first post, I've had my car looked at to trade in twice before. Once was when my engine was blown and in need of a rebuild. They offered $4000 then. The second time was recently when I was looking at an R/T. They offered $6500. That's what I was expecting. Granted, they do use imaginary numbers. They probably got that VR4 for $15000 and were just trying to make a profit.

You're right Kenneth, there are other circumstances behind my car. That's probably why I've never found another car that can match up to her