car auctions in houston
07-19-2007, 03:09 PM
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car auctions in houston Anyone been to one of these? How nice are the cars there? I was looking into the new G35 sedans and my dad told me I could find pretty low mileage cars there for $10k under sticker sometimes. I hear there is a popular one on Wednesday nights. Anyone know?
07-19-2007, 03:41 PM
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You can't get into any good auctions without a dealer's license. You can't get one of those without a legitimate business. The public auctions aren't worth going to, for the most part.
www.houstonautoauction.com
The PHH cars are off-lease, and sometimes OK.
www.houstonautoauction.com
The PHH cars are off-lease, and sometimes OK.
07-19-2007, 04:32 PM
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They are worth your time, but $10,000 off of sticker on a car that is only 5 months old and still in hot demand is a little far fetched. The one I bought had 3200 miles on it and I paid $32,900 with fee's. That was $2100 under invoice, or $3250 under sticker. It was not a great color scheme so thats why I got it cheap. I sold it for $34,600....
Now if it was a one year old GM or Ford Vehicle, $10,000 off is not that hard to believe. I bought an 07 DTS for $34,000 out of rental fleet service. Sticker was $52,500. Has 26,000 miles on it.
Its about about what your looking for and at....
They are worth your time, but $10,000 off of sticker on a car that is only 5 months old and still in hot demand is a little far fetched. The one I bought had 3200 miles on it and I paid $32,900 with fee's. That was $2100 under invoice, or $3250 under sticker. It was not a great color scheme so thats why I got it cheap. I sold it for $34,600....
Now if it was a one year old GM or Ford Vehicle, $10,000 off is not that hard to believe. I bought an 07 DTS for $34,000 out of rental fleet service. Sticker was $52,500. Has 26,000 miles on it.
Its about about what your looking for and at....
07-19-2007, 04:45 PM
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Yea that is what I had figured. My dad must have been mistaken. I did not think I could get that much off. Would it be almost worth just getting it new? or no because of TTL fees?
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TTL fees are based on the sales price, with the exception of a couple of small fees that won't matter much anyway. Not a lot of difference, if the sales price is close to the same. This is assuming that that the dealer friend reports the actual sales price.