| Quote: | |  | |
| With garages, you pay for the lower risk and the guarantee, and for them to do all the paperwork. From the owner - caveat emptor, you might still be paying over the odds, and you have to do the paperwork yourself. I prefer the greater certainty of buying from the garage. | |
| | |
In addition, when we last changed cars, we got a good P/X deal (surprisingly) on our old car, which would have struggled to make the same privately (and possibly difficult to shift), and was much better than another dealer had previously offered against a similar purchase model.
I know there are those who would say that the purchase price was bumped up to compensate, but having studied the market (in general) and the model bought (specifically), over several weeks (months?) prior to buying I was confident the price paid was the "normal" dealer price.
As we bought well out of area, I believe the market to sell-on our old car was better there, than locally to us - or he may have already had a prospective buyer.
Plus we got a very good finance package, to boot.
A genuine good guy, looking to make a living, without shafting the buying public.
Maybe less few-and-far-between here, than in other parts of the world.