While I would never expect them to accept that in this market, no matter how much inventory or how old it is, definitely would not categorize this as a bottom feeder offer. Itâs not even invoice. I wouldâve expected some thing to reset your price expectations like âthese were going for MSRP before the shortagesâ however true it may or may not be.
If you came in at 10%, I would expect something like âyou may be new to the brand but even in normal times thatâs unheard of. But Audi makes fantastic cars hereâs the contact information for a sales person thereâ. the VW turn was just rude.
I donât think most are aholes, but I think people run into more aholes at every luxury brand because the associates elevate themselves (earned or unearned) to that level even though a $20,000 Gucci item will empty their savings account if they have one.
I agree⌠YMMV at every dealer. Iâve had great experiences with Porsche dealerships at opposite ends of the country, and I was paying less than MSRP.
FWIW, the salesguy I dealt with 8 years ago is still there at his dealership, so they must be doing something right.
Because for 20+ years now dbags everywhere have been convincing themselves that negging is the best way to convince someone to do somethingâŚthey actually donât want to do.
Itâs a douchy close but it works more often than you would think. I would do it all the time when I was at Jaguar Land Rover.
Example
âOh, do you mind if I ask why are you asking for more discount? I gave you $1,000 off which is a fair market price considering the rarity of the vehicle. If the payment doesnât work within your budget we can always explore lesser options such as a Velar or Evoqueâ (or tell them to explore Mercedes / Audi / BMW as they are less of a boutique brand)
Buyers would then make some defensive statement about being able to afford the car and it being what they want
Then I would ask if they can afford it why donât they stomach the payment and get what they want
BAM Next thing you know theyâre filling out a credit app
Your guess would be completely incorrect, those clients are easy flops. Generally the more money they had the harder they would grind (with exceptions of course). I would do my best to mirror the personality of the client, the hardest they pushed the harder I would slap them around and play games.
And it wasnât a âlineâ, while there probably was a little more wiggle room in most cases but I had a large ego and would usually just walk the client and move onto the next without hesitation. Nothing felt better than walking a customer and pounding the next up on the car they wanted.
As my first sales manager told me on my first day in the business - âThe ones you pound the hardest love you the most, and the mooches will never be happy.â Couldnât be more true.
You might need to call around the country. I was able to get 8% off MSRP on a base model in April and someone else on the forum posted about 7% off on a 4S.
We were doing more aggressive deals than that in April when we had 10+ RWDs available and almost as many 4Ss. Now we have a total of 5 new Taycans left for 2021. 3 of those are still many months away. No Porsche dealer will come close to those numbers now if they even want to discount.
Youâre delusional if you think that the market is the same. Germany is caught between Taiwan and China in an argument over trading BT vaccines for Chips with Taiwan. Thereâs very much anti-german prejudice at home right now as they removed the word country and instead called TW property of China, and if you think this is going to be over soon, Q4 promises some relief but I donât expect a return to a sense of normality till 2022. Check out my local ford dealer.