Quotas
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Re: Quotas
Rainy days and middle-of-the-week help too, if you're lucky. Of course, if you really want to work a deal... buy a Corvette in the middle of winter during a snowstorm in some podunk town way up north.
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2003.5 G35 Sedan Desert Platinum/Graphite Premium/Sport/Aero/Nav/Winter
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Re: Quotas
A good read:
There's as much advice about when is the best time to visit a dealer as there are days in a year. Some say that Mondays are good because business is slower on Monday than on the weekend. Some say holidays like Thanksgiving are good for the same reason: nobody else will be there, and the sales team will be hungry for a sale. Others advise to go when it's raining or snowing; after all, who wants to look at a car and get wet? Then there's the advice that the end of the month is the best time because the dealership needs to make its "quota" of car sales and will be more willing to cut a deal. Still others advise not to buy a car until the end of the model year, or in slow months like August or December when people are busy thinking about going back to school or shopping for Christmas gifts rather than shopping for a car.
Our advice is don't buy a car until you need one. That's usually the best time to buy. By then you have saved enough for a substantial down payment, and you've had plenty of time to do your research for the lowest interest rate, and you know all the current incentives and rebates.
There is no way to tell when the best time to buy actually is other than personal need. If a dealer has already made his target sales for the month, you're not going to have any advantage by showing up on the 31st of the month.
Some experts advise you to show up to the dealership just before five o'clock on a weekday, so the salesperson will want to hurry up and give you a good deal. If sales have been brisk all day, however, you're not going to help yourself by showing up just before they close, only to start negotiating into the late hours of the night. In fact, those types of buyer tactics can be extremely annoying to a salesperson, and they may toughen up their negotiations just to get back at you.
While there may be something to say for going to a dealership on a weekday near the end of the month on Thanksgiving at five o'clock during a raging blizzard, your best bet is to track incentives and rebates, don't buy hot new models, and do your research first.
There's as much advice about when is the best time to visit a dealer as there are days in a year. Some say that Mondays are good because business is slower on Monday than on the weekend. Some say holidays like Thanksgiving are good for the same reason: nobody else will be there, and the sales team will be hungry for a sale. Others advise to go when it's raining or snowing; after all, who wants to look at a car and get wet? Then there's the advice that the end of the month is the best time because the dealership needs to make its "quota" of car sales and will be more willing to cut a deal. Still others advise not to buy a car until the end of the model year, or in slow months like August or December when people are busy thinking about going back to school or shopping for Christmas gifts rather than shopping for a car.
Our advice is don't buy a car until you need one. That's usually the best time to buy. By then you have saved enough for a substantial down payment, and you've had plenty of time to do your research for the lowest interest rate, and you know all the current incentives and rebates.
There is no way to tell when the best time to buy actually is other than personal need. If a dealer has already made his target sales for the month, you're not going to have any advantage by showing up on the 31st of the month.
Some experts advise you to show up to the dealership just before five o'clock on a weekday, so the salesperson will want to hurry up and give you a good deal. If sales have been brisk all day, however, you're not going to help yourself by showing up just before they close, only to start negotiating into the late hours of the night. In fact, those types of buyer tactics can be extremely annoying to a salesperson, and they may toughen up their negotiations just to get back at you.
While there may be something to say for going to a dealership on a weekday near the end of the month on Thanksgiving at five o'clock during a raging blizzard, your best bet is to track incentives and rebates, don't buy hot new models, and do your research first.
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Re: Quotas
I've read that before. Which website is it from?
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