Backstory:

15 months ago, I bought a 2007 350z Le Mans Sunset Orange for $20,000, mil of 18,000.

Now:
Browns Nissan of Fairfax/Dulles sends me a letter out of the blue that states they really need my 2007 350z back and are willing to offer me $18K, or 125% of Kbb (which turns out to be $21K). I have no idea why they would send me this letter, and i have since left a voicemail saying im willing to deal if they work with me

I looked thru their selection of 350z, and all 3 that they have are older and automatics. They have a nice 370z that i would sell my car + $5K for, but thats it. They arent getting **** from me for anything else.

My question to this forum is simple: wtf? Is this legit? Is this just some trick to get me in there?

 

Something is not right. Show us the letter so that we can help suggest a solution for your problem.

 

Thats a good idea...too bad its at home and im at work. Ill do it tonight.

 

I got 2 or 3 of those from my dealership last year.

 

oh? did anything arise from them?

 

Most dealerships send out stuff like that it's all for promo purposes
It's to get your attention make you go in ... Most of the time the story changes when u show up and sit with the salesman ... Read the small print ...

 

ha, what a bunch of homos. oh well, ill call them again just to try and snag that 370z. if nothing, ill just ignore them from now on

 

Maybe they got a customer in who wanted the dealership to source a "2007 350z Le Mans Sunset Orange" for them and the customer offered the dealership some outrageous amount of money. The dealership may be trying to buy yours and sell it to the customer to make a quick buck...

 

right, and thats why i called them. i left a voice mail, its up to them now

 

Where do you find stupid customers like that? I highly doubt that's the case.

 

Not really, I did not persue it or anything but I think it said "due to low inventory" bla bla bla.. Someone made a thread there about a year or so ago with the same letters.

 

Dealers send those out all the time. The hope is you go in hyped for a trade in thinking they want your car and will pay top dollar.

 

standard dealer marketing stuff. your car is not THAT special.

 

It was just a thought; a new sucker is born everyday.

 

I received one many months back with a "guaranteed" $15000 for my car from my local stealership.

 

Is this a real question?

Dealers do this all the freaking time so you go back and buy another brand new car. Your Z is pretty much worthless since there are SO MANY of them for sale.

The dealer just wants you to buy a new car. They will give you a little more than KBB trade in value and be on their way.

 

I got the same exact letter from Brown's Nissan. Mine as well is an 07'. There's like two sentences on the back at the bottom (fine print) talking about KBB value.

 

ok, so here are the results:

Browns Nissan is putting cars thru auction and felt that they could get a better deal there then the one they got thru me. The 350z they had were all crap (automatics) and they only had 2 370z. The one that was the lowest price, a 2009 370z Touring Sport looked nice, and i made a play for that one since it was only $28. I offered them my car, plus $3000. A lowball, but something for them to build on. But, alas, here was the kicker.

The first sentence of the letter said '125% of KBB Fair Market Value'. This to me means a fair price. So my car is an excellent or very good condition, thats around $19K, plus 25%, thats $23K, plus the $3000 i was willing to pay, and that puts me in range of the 370z. However, that fair market value? That was a way of the stealership saying that they were rating my car at the 'fair' value. Yeah ********, thanks for obliquely saying that in the letter. Thats $3000 less from excellent, and $5000 less once the 125% comes in.

Go eff yourselves, *******s.

 

look at this situation from a business perspective. Would anyone say, "Hey! Lets offer this guy 125% of KBB value on his depreciating asset w/o EVER looking at the darn thing!" When it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

 

On the flip side, if you go in and they are willing to give you the 125% KBB offer on trade in towards another car, they will not wheel and deal with you a dime on the price of the new car.

Go in with money in hand and chances are they'll drop 2-3-4-5-6K off the price of the car to make a deal.

They will make their money somehow.