Re: Car Body Export Price Guide
Chicken Kid
Do u know exactly the implication of your statement above?
If what you said above is always true, the only downside that I can see as far as you are concerned is that you could be wasting your time with such customers, no quantified financial losses. You may pull a long face but at the end of the day, do not forget that your job is to service those who come to you. Have you heard of the concept "Customer Sovereignty"?
However, if the customers are indeed clueless bout this kinda trade....What are some dealers (esp the dishonest ones) likely goin to do? U know the answer better than most of us here.
There is a need for some form of transparency as far as a trade goes. FYI, customers nowadays are generally quite sophisticated. They do sometimes ask their friends around for opinions and then make some sort of benchmark before proceeding to a dealer.
If u ask me, I would never ever go to a dealer whom I don't know. You can call me old-fashioned but I am definitely more comfortable dealing with somebody I may or maynot directly know. It's all bout networking..
Chicken Kid
Do u know exactly the implication of your statement above?
If what you said above is always true, the only downside that I can see as far as you are concerned is that you could be wasting your time with such customers, no quantified financial losses. You may pull a long face but at the end of the day, do not forget that your job is to service those who come to you. Have you heard of the concept "Customer Sovereignty"?
However, if the customers are indeed clueless bout this kinda trade....What are some dealers (esp the dishonest ones) likely goin to do? U know the answer better than most of us here.
There is a need for some form of transparency as far as a trade goes. FYI, customers nowadays are generally quite sophisticated. They do sometimes ask their friends around for opinions and then make some sort of benchmark before proceeding to a dealer.
If u ask me, I would never ever go to a dealer whom I don't know. You can call me old-fashioned but I am definitely more comfortable dealing with somebody I may or maynot directly know. It's all bout networking..
Cannot use Benzworld as a guide. He is selling the body and is running a business, not charity. If you expect to get the price the benzworld put on his website, try harder. Advertise in the Straits Time and also the internet, employ admin staffs and sales people to do it, maybe, you get a chance. As for the body of the 318 that is 1.5 years old, $20k is about right. however, why would you want to export that body. Can sell in local market. you fetch a higher price selling it in the local market because you do not have to sustain paper loss (if you do understand what I mean), which is 7.5% now. Don't get me wrong, I'm actually a car dealer and at the same time a BMW enthusiasts. 
Just remember that dealers need to make a living too and if you are going to use our selling price as a guide for you to sell you car, by all means, but advertise in the papers and do all the documentations yourself. Not to forget, full settle the car yourself first before you can do anything and dealers have to fork out the money for you to do so. Anyway, to answer your question, the price of the body is about right but check your PARF, because I think that you can actually sell it in the local market for the 318 that you mentioned. 
I hate to say this but as dealers, we meet cutomers who actually doesn't know the trade and pretend to know tonnes. I see some advice in this forum that actually sucks, inaccurate and unreasonable. In the first place, why drive a beamer if you care about the few hundreds or maybe a thousnad or two that a dealer may reap you off? Drive a COE Suzuki Swift instead and you would not have to bother about the prices of the body and things like that because the body of the Swift costs nothing. Everything is cheaper too. In hokkien, they say "Ai hiong siew, Ai jiap siew". Meaning, you want to enjoy, you must accept! 
