redLEAF
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Reddy said:Ha, that's great. I love it when the dealership's screwup and you can catch them at their game. So there's another example that they target a minimum of $2000 profit on each sale, sometimes $2k on each side.
I'd pretty much agree on this statement -- my '12 SL w/46K miles and down one almost two battery capacity bars netted me $5,362.50 (we save the sales tax against a new car purchase; actual trade-in value was $5K) and would imagine it being listed for $7.5K at a dealer. Although I didn't see my specific car, I have seen others priced similarly with about the same mileage & equipment, etc. What you do run into once they get towards the bottom like this is that more of them will get totaled by insurance companies because repairs would be more than the car is worth so finding a suitable replacement for the check they give you could be a problem -- years ago, when they had the cash for clunkers program we saw a 'value' of $3,500 given for a minivan we had worth maybe $800 tops --- maybe we'll see something similar for 10+ year old EV's (hah, hah) to get those old batteries off the road ...