I was looking to buy a new mazda pickup (two door with the small rear doors opening). Salesman gave us the low down and the promotional package including a voucher for 20,000bt discount bringing the price down to 700,000bt all in with 1 yrs free first class insurance.
A student of mine mixes with the business community and told me that the owner of the dealership is a friend of hers (he owns 4 in Chonburi and Rayong) and told me she'd talk to him about our trade in deal for my old toyota and that he'd be in touch to discuss.
Didn't here anything for a month and she phoned him a few times before eventually running into him at a restaurant. He told her that he didn't have stock which matched the same statement from our Ford showroom - the mada and ford are the same apart from the insides and outer shell.
Got a phone call from the Mazda dealership to tell me that the salesman was out of order offering the 20,000bt discount voucher which is not available for foreigners! This made my decision to choose an alternative route much easier - I'm not going to give my money to a racist company such as mazda.
My student tells me that there are a lot of repos of wheels bought in the heat of the moment last year to capitalise on the 100,000bt discount prog and people just can't afford to pay the monthly finace payments.
I've decided to go down this route as she does a lot of business with SCB and knows the finance guy in our local branch very well, This guy is heavily into the auction scene on behalf of the bank and she will set up a meeting for us to discuss our options.
Hopefully, will be able to report back with news of a great bargain and these things are less than a year old but are being sold at knocked down prices due to the high volume!