It is Osama crap for cars that has made a mess of the business. The old cars got destroyed, so used car volume crashed. The new cars sold at that time were tin boxes, not cars you really wanted to hang onto. The dealers were begging folks to buy, since there was almost no business to be had. SWMBA got her korean car at the end of the season. It had come up from PDX, to a lesser dealer here, and they were trying to push it at near new car pricing. I think we got them to toss in all manner of goodies, extend the warrantee, and cut the price by $8.5k. Five years of service was part of the deal, so it has only ever been to the dealer for care. About the only out of pocket was fuel, a better battery and tires. And wipers.
Trying to find valid pricing for the model now is crazy. Low miles, like hers, are going for top blue book. Probably best time to dump it, as it is still under warrantee, has all records, and the economy is getting ready to tick along again clay On Jul 27, 2014, at 6:58 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > Used truck prices are stupid right now. 4 years old you're looking at > $20-24k, for $4,000 more I can buy brand new. > Toyota is the worst, 8 years old is $16-18k. I think few people were buying > new from say 2008 to about 2012 so there just isn't that much inventory in > used trucks. When I bought my Dakota there were a bunch of used trucks, same > when I bought my Ranger. Now every dealership has a few but not that many. > > Curt > > > ________________________________ > From: Allan Streib via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 9:54 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: How is this game played exactly? > > > Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes: > >> They tried to tell us that when the 2015s come out (with the new >> aluminum body panels) that the 2014s will get scarce and they'll stop >> the incentives. That seems to not make sense to me, surely the 2014s >> get cheaper. This is my first time looking at new and I feel like I'm >> flailing in the dark... > > BS. Last year's models ALWAYS get discounted when the new year models > come out. Dealers do not make money hanging on to last year's inventory. > > I would recommend buying used from a private seller. Dealers do this > every day and they know every trick for getting you to pay more than you > intended to. Watch out for dealers masquerading as private sellers. Or > maybe look at a place like CarMax. I wouldn't trust them either but > people I've talked to are happy with them. > > Allan > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
