A Car Broker Vs a Dealer? Who would you use?

I have found that I can normally get a better deal myself than with a broker on new cars if its a straight purchase(I do my home work & play hard ball, always buy towards the end of the month when they have to meet target & will walk if its not the deal I want) but on 2nd hand cars & trucks have always done a lot better through a good broker, but if you have to finance, lease, trade etc... its a different ball game & a good broker will normally do better than you as he should no all the prices to get you the best deal so that he's commission is not painful
Good luck It a buyers market

I have brought a few new cars Boo Boo and never found any option better than the dealer, however it is vital that you fully research you purchase and then timing is everything !

In my recent purchase , it was probably only ever going to be either the 2 big wagons, I evaluated them as equal performance wise for my purposes and really could have brought either car.

So then I take the time to physically go to some dealers which shows you are serious and you quickly get an idea of the approximate cost.

But you have to know yourself and be absolutely firm that this phase is still research so many have gone in with those intentions and walked out with a car.

I then asked each place what I could do to mimimize the cost , sometimes car companies do give there dealers time limited cost reductions, and there are better times to buy.

Like everything if the cars are scarce or have to be ordered you have less bargaining power.

In my case one of the cars was a run out model advertized at $60,000 I rang back 3 dealers who all said we could probably get it down to around $55,000.

So now its descision time and you have to decide at what price you would be seriously happy with your purchase, as opposed to what you can get ity for.

I then faxed each dealer with my signed offer of $50k so as to put the ball back in their court.

It took a week of hedging before one accepted.

Still find it hard to believe that I brought the basically same car 8 years after the first one for less actual dollars.

Timing is everything - set yourself up to win.

Ullo Ullo Ullo, has that detector of yours put you onto a good patch up there Boo Boo LOL LOL.

Fred

Problem is stock is extremely scarce since the Jap disasters, we have even had dealers trying to buy our rental vehicles back as they can not get stock.
So its going to be hard to get a top deal, sorry for the bad news mate.
Cheers Pete