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DRoc7822 · 08-05-2010, 10:46 PM

Has anyone ever sat down with the salesman and they just seem to make up numbers for your trade in... like its a guessing game? To see if your take it... and then refuse to negoitate. Didnt look up the value for the car or anything. Just said.... we're give you 10k for your trade when KBB states 12,600 for trade in. I show him that, and he says "its not gonna happen" "Im just giving you real world prices".

npdabest · 08-06-2010, 01:21 AM

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Originally Posted by DRoc7822

Has anyone ever sat down with the salesman and they just seem to make up numbers for your trade in... like its a guessing game? To see if your take it... and then refuse to negoitate. Didnt look up the value for the car or anything. Just said.... we're give you 10k for your trade when KBB states 12,600 for trade in. I show him that, and he says "its not gonna happen" "Im just giving you real world prices".

Salesmen will say anything to get a sale. I've had experience with this at Mazda, Infiniti, and Nissan. Only Lexus and Honda hasn't cheated me so far. Of course, YMMV.

I had a Nissan dealer tell me KBB gives prices for private sales only. What we are giving you is realistic numbers.

DRoc7822 · 08-06-2010, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by npdabest

Salesmen will say anything to get a sale. I've had experience with this at Mazda, Infiniti, and Nissan. Only Lexus and Honda hasn't cheated me so far. Of course, YMMV.

I had a Nissan dealer tell me KBB gives prices for private sales only. What we are giving you is realistic numbers.

Oh well I know they will say nething.. Im not really surprised at that. Im just surprised that they pretty much told me they couldnt help me whatsoever with anything. This is the 2nd dealership that has done that. And it was kinda like... we both know your make money off the trade in and it just didnt seem to afffect him. Maybe dealers around here are different and dont like making sales lol. Ok Im upside down in the car right now.. but with the downpayment I was putting down, the guy acted like even if I put down 10k it wouldnt matter. Like no bank would cover 1300 in negative equity.

koeppelnissan · 08-10-2010, 08:46 AM

KBB trade values are usually on the high side compared to what we can get cars for at the auction. And if I buy a car at the auction, if a story pops up, I can always return the car, but I can't do that with a customer's trade.

usually with the tax savings, our trade values will come pretty close to KBB though!

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08-05-2010, 10:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
DRoc7822 Base Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Illinois Posts: 67 Drives: 08 Mazdaspeed 3 Rep Power: 366	Has anyone ever sat down with the salesman and they just seem to make up numbers for your trade in... like its a guessing game? To see if your take it... and then refuse to negoitate. Didnt look up the value for the car or anything. Just said.... we're give you 10k for your trade when KBB states 12,600 for trade in. I show him that, and he says "its not gonna happen" "Im just giving you real world prices".

08-10-2010, 08:46 AM	#4 (permalink)
koeppelnissan Supporting Nissan Dealer Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: queens Posts: 859 Drives: 14 6MT Trng Spt Nav Rep Power: 18	KBB trade values are usually on the high side compared to what we can get cars for at the auction. And if I buy a car at the auction, if a story pops up, I can always return the car, but I can't do that with a customer's trade. usually with the tax savings, our trade values will come pretty close to KBB though!