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How car dealers are “misleading” car buyers using the announced increase in salvage costs

  • July 24, 2023
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Recently, only the lazy people in the media and telegram channels did not talk about the upcoming increase in car prices due to an increase in the recycling

How car dealers are “misleading” car buyers using the announced increase in salvage costs
Recently, only the lazy people in the media and telegram channels did not talk about the upcoming increase in car prices due to an increase in the recycling fee. It seems that the car dealers felt that the potential buyer was “warmed up” enough by the abundance of information on this subject to scam customers.

The increase in the recycling fee for imported vehicles was first announced a few weeks ago when the government published a decision on the matter. It said that from August 1, 2023, the recycling fee will increase when cars are imported from abroad for sale in the Russian market. An increase in the salvage fee from 178,000 to 300,000 rubles per car in the market niche of the AVTOVAZ model line (with a displacement of 1-2 liters) should (theoretically!) make domestic production more attractive and increase sales of Togliatti products.

In theory, the price of imported cars in the showrooms of Russian dealers should not rise from the first days of August. Cars registered with customs under the new rules still have to reach the points of sale. And that – to have time to sell the four-wheeled goods imported in the old way, with a relatively small salvage fee.

But it turned out that the car business in Russian has already fully earned. We walked through several metropolitan car dealerships (we won’t name them in ads!) and discovered something curious. Conversations with managers showed that they use the background information surrounding the entry into force of the National Recycling Contribution Decree in their own interest.

Employees of dealerships informed us that the price tags for cars will be significantly rewritten upwards as of August 1. Even for cars that have been on sale since the beginning of the year. Just like that, because I want real money. And therefore, we were told, we urgently need to buy a car now – “before it starts”.

In a number of places, we were generally advised not to look at the price tags on the cars on display, but to mentally add 150,000 rubles to them. This is now the real selling price, but the price tags did not have time to rewrite. “But only for your sake” (that is, for the sake of the author of this material), with this 150,000 rubles, a good manager will try to reduce this markup to 100,000-50,000 rubles. Nice huh?! I am sure that many potential buyers, having read about garbage collection on the Internet, now “bite” into such a trick, which can increase the final price of the car by 50,000-100,000 rubles.

It was especially interesting to see how a similar cynical “divorce” scheme, using the scarecrow to increase the recycling fee, works in car dealerships that specialize in the resale of used cars purchased from Russian car owners. At these outlets, garbage collection is generally not sideways, as they say. But even in such places, as it turned out, managers promise to raise prices from August 1 or not to pay attention to the existing price lists …

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The increase in the recycling fee for imported vehicles was first announced a few weeks ago when the government published a decision on the matter. It said that from August 1, 2023, the recycling fee will increase when cars are imported from abroad for sale in the Russian market. An increase in the salvage fee from 178,000 to 300,000 rubles per car in the market niche of the AVTOVAZ model line (with a displacement of 1-2 liters) should (theoretically!) make domestic production more attractive and increase sales of Togliatti products.

In theory, the price of imported cars in the showrooms of Russian dealers should not rise from the first days of August. Cars registered with customs under the new rules still have to reach the points of sale. And that – to have time to sell the four-wheeled goods imported in the old way, with a relatively small salvage fee.

But it turned out that the car industry in Russian has already fully earned. We walked through several metropolitan car dealerships (we won’t name them in ads!) and discovered something curious. Conversations with managers showed that they use the background information surrounding the entry into force of the National Recycling Contribution Decree in their own interest.

Employees of dealerships informed us that the price tags for cars will be significantly rewritten upwards as of August 1. Even for cars that have been on sale since the beginning of the year. Just like that, because I want real money. And therefore, we were told, we urgently need to buy a car now – “before it starts”.

In a number of places, we were generally advised not to look at the price tags on the cars on display, but to mentally add 150,000 rubles to them. This is now the real selling price, but the price tags did not have time to rewrite. “But only for your sake” (that is, for the sake of the author of this material), with this 150,000 rubles, a good manager will try to reduce this markup to 100,000-50,000 rubles. Nice huh?! I am sure that many potential buyers, having read about garbage collection on the Internet, now “bite” into such a trick, which can increase the final price of the car by 50,000-100,000 rubles.

It was especially interesting to see how a similar cynical “divorce” scheme, using the scarecrow to increase the recycling fee, works in car dealerships that specialize in the resale of used cars purchased from Russian car owners. At these outlets, garbage collection is generally not sideways, as they say. But even in such places, as it turned out, managers promise to raise prices from August 1 or not to pay attention to the existing price lists …

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