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2004 c320 4matic 200k miles trade in car gave me $200
Would you say thats fair?
Nope. Should have sold it yourself.
I had an old friend that worked for a Toyota dealership and he would brag about ripping people off on trade ins, dealers have a certain amount of wiggle room on the sticker price and if someone came in with a car that had over 100,000 miles they only gave them a dollar, they may have told them they were getting $1000 but they did not come down on the sticker price that they may have come down $1000 for someone with no trade.
Who do you think is going to give you more for a beat up, expensive to fix, cheap Mercedes? The C in C Class means Cheap. Mercedes makes some fantastic cars, the C Class is not one of them. Nobody in their right mind is going to pay anything for a Cheap Mercedes with 200,000 miles on it. The cost to keep it on the road will crazy expensive. Be glad they didn't make you pay them to take it off of yer hands.....and it had dents and scratches and burned oil....sounds like scrap to me.
$200.00 is an indication they don't really want the trade-in, they're just being charitable.
This!!
but i have seen them give a crappy offer on some nice cars.. just had some high miles on it. I remember trading in my GMC long wheel 1994 in to a dealer for a buick century.. it had 80k miles on it, this was in 2000, so a 6 year old truck, and they wouldnt give me no more than 500.. Few weeks later, i seen it on the same lot, and they had price tag for 2500k on it. So they made 2k and 4k for the buick i paid for. so 6k off me, for a 500 investment.. Not to shabby for a auto dealer, just lesson learn.. sell it privately.
We have a couple of these in the local wrecking yard. Older, high miles, way too expensive to fix. Donated Mercedes of this vintage that still run bring a couple hundred dollars at the local salvage auction. Not sure what they bring at a regular auction.
The yard has yet to sell a meaningful part off the darn things and even scrapped the aluminum wheels to get the good tires off it, said the wheels would sit on the shelf forever. You, I'd say, got a realistic price regardless of how the dealership applied it to your purchase.
Who do you think is going to give you more for a beat up, expensive to fix, cheap Mercedes? The C in C Class means Cheap. Mercedes makes some fantastic cars, the C Class is not one of them. Nobody in their right mind is going to pay anything for a Cheap Mercedes with 200,000 miles on it. The cost to keep it on the road will crazy expensive. Be glad they didn't make you pay them to take it off of yer hands.....and it had dents and scratches and burned oil....sounds like scrap to me.
Me, too, but you should see the "yard sale" groups on Facebook for my area. People jump all over a '99 Mercedes C-Class with 250k miles and a stained-ass interior for $5k,
"But it's a Mercedes. You know I like to ride nice."
BREAKING NEWS, people: CAR DEALERS RIP YOU OFF EVERY CHANCE THEY GET!!!
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