Dealers are Lowlifes out to Screw Everyone!!!

[Astraman]

I was just talking to a guy from work a few minutes ago and he was telling me he was buying a new Opel Astra 1.4XE 5Door for £14,700.Now I happen to know a bit about the price of them as I have the same version except mine's a saloon and I got mine for £100 less than this.I checked up the price of the car he wants here at this site and its listed at £13,985.The dealer then organised finance for him which ended up being only £6 less than my loan even though he's getting nearly £1.5K less of a loan than I did.He has yet to sign anything but I showed him the price listings from this site and a couple of loan calculators from different financial institutions on the net eg.AIB,BOI etc. and all in all he's being done out of nearly 2 grand at the end of the day.What's the general experience everyones had with dealers here.Are they always out to screw you?

[Chancer]

Don't forget dealers add in extra charges like PDI, plates etc to the standard charge(except for Fiat & Alfa Romeo). If you're comparing loans, you should be looking at the 'cost per thousand'. If it's not quoted, ask them for that figure.