July 9, 2010

Filed under: Buying Advice — admin @ 1:18 pm

It’s another new month and also more importantly the start of a new quarter. We have already created a “How to buy a new car” guide at http://www.autoebid.com/how-to-buy-a-car.asp where we state “Heavier discounts are always available at the end of the month or financial quarter when dealers are chasing the last few deals they require to hit a target. If you are looking at taking advantage of this, we would suggest having your auction finish between the 20-24th of the month”.

What we do not mention is the time it takes for manufacturers to get their act together and decide on the bonuses they are going to offer at the beginning of the new quarter… It’s now the 9th July and still over a week into the new quarther most suppliers offering big bonuses still do not know what deals they can offer. Surely this helps no one? I would remove this last sentence

Ford have recently introduced a new pricing system called “blue tag”. Ford recently decided to reduce the RRP on the Mondeo, S-Max and Galaxy and at the same time reducing the discounts offered to you the consumer… For this new quarter, Ford have introduced “blue tag” across the entire range. While our discounts have now come down we still offer the best current discounts avaialbe in the UK as you would expect by getting hundreds of Ford dealers to compete for your order all at the same time.

Land Rover is an example of a Manufacturer who seeems to drip feed pricing of the new 2011 models to certain prefered dealers but not all franchised dealers, therefore causing confusion and an inability for some dealers to even offer pricing on the new 2011 models, while at the same time ceasing to take orders on the 2010 model.

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