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VW Wigan trying to rip me off!

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Hi everyone i ordered my eos back in november and was happy enough paying £25,998 then i get a email the other day off http://www.mammothcars.com

and i thought i'd have a look round and see if i could get my car the same price it turned out to be £3000 cheaper than im paying for it! i know you can say it was online so i decided to ring my other local VW garage and got a quote for the exact came car and he came up with £24,300! so as you can imagine i am not happy with VW Wigan so i've rang them up and the sales manager and the guy who sold me the car want to see me on friday. I dont think its fair that at one dealership they sell it for one price and at another they sell it for a totally different price. Is this allowed? :(

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Stephb said:
Hi everyone i ordered my eos back in november and was happy enough paying £25,998 then i get a email the other day off http://www.mammothcars.com

and i thought i'd have a look round and see if i could get my car the same price it turned out to be £3000 cheaper than im paying for it! i know you can say it was online so i decided to ring my other local VW garage and got a quote for the exact came car and he came up with £24,300! so as you can imagine i am not happy with VW Wigan so i've rang them up and the sales manager and the guy who sold me the car want to see me on friday. I dont think its fair that at one dealership they sell it for one price and at another they sell it for a totally different price. Is this allowed? :(

Stephb xx
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Price fixing is illegal in the UK so dealers can charge whatever they can get away with and whatever the punters will pay them! It's a competitive old world for them so usually they will come down if faced with cheaper prices. However, once the deal is done...

There's nothing to stop you going to them and arguing that they've ripped you off but they might have given you the best deal going at the time you agreed the sale.

Watch out for some internet dealers however, who can't necessarily deliver what they offer.



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See now, aren't you glad you and your dealer worked things out. If you had to buy from another dealer you would have had to wait that whole time all over again. Waiting another 2 weeks will be a piece of cake. What would be cool would be if you could have gone to Portugal to pick up the car yourself. I have heard BMW will do this. Would have been been a fun road trip home. I guess not having license plates on the car would have been an issue.
I hope you will as happy with the car as you have been anxious for it to come.
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BMW, Audi and Mercedes all offer the facility to collect your car from the factory and it's a very popular day out - BUT they are factories in Germany. Not sure if VW do it.

Have heard that Eoses don't go direct from Portugal to their destination but go to Germany first for some finishing then get sent on from there. Anyone know if this is correct or not?



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