How's this for car sales: Buy one, get one for free! (Europe, too)

[BelgianMadCow]

one of the largest dealers has an action running: buy one middle class car (eg Toyota Avensis) at catalogue price, and you get a second small one (eg Ford Kia) for free. They announce it themselves as "selling off stock due to the crisis".

Site in dutch: http://www.cardoen.be/ Check the list of cars they have the offer for.

I'm not buying, even though we need two...

[TankLV]

1. Not totally "free" - you have to pay all dealer's costs and taxes, etc....

which still adds up to about 5 grand per vehicle depending on the type...

and, this is only for the "best" credit rated customers...

gotta read the fine print...

[BelgianMadCow]

2. Hmm...I'm not seeing it in fine print on the site

and people talking about it don't mention that either.
But I gues it could be in there. You probably have seen similar offers in the US?

Thanks for the warning though.

total side note: bought a mattress couple months back. I start reading the fine print, find out if I want their 10 year warranty, it has to be stated on the front of the order sheet by the sales clerk (which it wasn't). Suspicion aroused, I read the whole damn fine print - and they have:

"After a customer has paid an advance, the SELLER shall be accountable to pay the remainder" :crazy:

My father-in-law thought I should take them up on that, but I wanted my wife to sleep better soon, so I didn't :-)

[TankLV]

3. Know of a couple people personally here who just tried to do that....

Granted, the "price" for the car is "free" - but you still have to pay all the other charges...

It would be great for a business that needs cars to expand - but the REPUKE DEPRESSION and resulting lack of credit for almost ANYBODY is like offering a Rolls to a homeless poor person for ten grand - great deal but the poor person still doesn't have the money...