Re: Trade in or sell privately?

"Noddy" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Snapper" <snapper1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Exactly. But in the end, the dealer always wins. He will never, ever
sell
>> a car or take a trade in, on a loss, expecting to "recoup it on the
next
>> sucker that walks through the door". That never happens, unless the
>> salesman or dealer is a complete retard.
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> I never said it did.
>
> You'll never find a dealer who's been in business a while who will sell
a 
> new car at a loss on the promise of making a profit on the sale of the 
> trade in, and if you got that impression from what I said then you've 
> taken it the wrong way. What I said was that they'll be keener to 
> negotiate a *better* (but still profitable for them) price on the new
car 
> sale than if you just walked in off the street with cash, as they have
the 
> option of making a profit on the sale of the trade.


Is this the new term for "****fting the goalposts"?

Roger