Car buyers forever suffer from being blatantly ‘pickpocketed’ by dealers?

For many years, the situation that customers buying new cars have to pay an extra amount outside of documents and sales contracts is no longer strange. From the point of view of the sales staff and the dealer, this amount they have the right to collect more, as long as the customer agrees. Therefore, some ‘hot’ car models on the domestic market today have extremely high prices, even up to billions of dong.

Households, traders ‘lost’

The situation of selling cars with ‘peanut’ (price difference) occurs at most of the authorized stores of famous brands in the world, from the popular car segment to the luxury car segment, especially in Vietnam. products that many people are interested in. The arguments that the consultant gives to the customer to accept the payment of the difference are very “reasonable”. They understand the psychology of customers that they want a car soon, so they shouted a difference to deliver the car right away, otherwise, they refused to sell.

At Toyota and Hyundai dealers, new and attractive models such as Hyundai Creta 2022, Toyota Veloz Cross or Toyota Raize are all different from 20 to 50 million VND.

Popular car models in Vietnam are priced at a difference of 20 million VND.

One of the products currently being sold for the most difference is the Ford Explorer 2022. Worth mentioning, the situation of buying “beer with peanuts” for Ford Explorer 2022 has appeared since the new car was launched. The difference at that time sometimes increased from 300 to 400 million dong. The listed car price is 2,366 billion VND. Meanwhile, a dealer staff at a Ford facility at 313 Truong Chinh, Hanoi, said that Ford Explorer is currently priced at 2,546 billion VND, which is a difference of 180 million VND. In the expensive car segments, the difference is the amount. This also becomes bloated. Typically, the Land Cruiser model is for sale with a difference of more than one billion VND, the Land Cruiser Prado channel is 400 million VND and the Mercedes-Benz GLS products are not less than 400 million VND.

Ford Explorer owns a variable price depending on the individual decision of each dealer.

Not only cars, motorbike shops also take advantage of this opportunity to set prices. As noted, at a Honda Head facility on Le Duc Tho street, Hanoi, the Honda Vision Standard version retails for 37 million VND, the Premium version is 39.5 million VND, and the Special version is 41.5 million VND and Personality version 46 million VND. They are respectively higher than the listed prices of each copy of VND 6.73 million, VND 7.6 million, VND 8.23 ​​million and VND 11 million, respectively.

It is worth mentioning that these differences will be agreed by the agent and the buyer by word of mouth. When consulting, the dealer explains to the customer very carefully that on paper and in the sales contract, the retail price of the car will remain the same, and the difference is due to mutual agreement between the two parties. Any legal authority corroborates it.

Consumers rekindle the ‘fire’ of boycotting brands that abet dealers to inflate product prices

At car manufacturers that have dealers selling cars with high prices, only Toyota has publicly acknowledged this situation and given recommendations to customers so as not to incur additional unnecessary costs. Although it cannot be completely solved, but after the Japanese automaker announced, many Toyota dealers in Hanoi have been more transparent about car prices, committed to selling cars without money, which products are currently out of stock. I don’t know when the car will come back, I won’t accept the deposit anymore. However, other brands have remained silent and have not taken drastic action to protect consumers’ interests.

When the demand for owning personal vehicles is increasing rapidly like today, the problem of blatantly making the prices of dealers is more and more interested and noticed by the public. Can’t help but be annoyed by the situation that many people have to spend money without impunity, Mr. ML, residing in Tan Binh ward, Binh Duong province said: “Currently, cars in the same segment with similar prices are very diverse. In a fiercely competitive industry such as the production of cars and motorbikes, car manufacturers always know how to launch products whose direct competitors are cars of equal quality but from different brands. Therefore, there is no reason for us to choose a car model and accept to spend extra money to own it. That money is really not worth it. Stay away from brands. have a car dealership with the difference to save a big amount of money for yourself and your family.”

Agreeing with this point of view, Mr. TB, residing in Hoang Mai, Hanoi shared: “Customers’ privilege is to choose. Therefore, make full use of that privilege. When buying a certain product. , the first beneficiary must be the buyer, not the buyer who has to accept the current disadvantage. Therefore, the consumer community should speak out in boycotting dealers selling cars with peanuts, and should be active. exchange information about prices and quantity status of products so that everyone can access a multi-dimensional view when preparing to buy a car.”

Also a consumer who said no to beer with peanuts, Mr. Pham Thanh Le, admin of Otofun forum said: “On the objective issue, the epidemic causes car and motorbike manufacturers to lack spare parts. to supply enough output according to consumer demand. Therefore, new dealers launch tricks to buy ready-made cars with accessory packages, add money to deliver cars right away. This proves that they cannot Besides, selling the car at a higher price than the suggested price from the brand with the difference that does not appear in the documents, the sales contract between the dealer and the buyer is an act of tax evasion and violation. Therefore, customers now have to be very careful and alert when buying a car to avoid being overpriced, not having to spend huge amounts of money to own unexpected accessory packages. want or make a deposit and the delivery days are still far away”.

Selling a car with an undisclosed difference is an act of tax evasion.

It can be said that car dealers are using the business of snatching, not thinking about the long haul. Instead of contributing to the popularization of products being launched on the market, they only focus on selling to those who have money, ready to lose an unnecessary amount of money to own the vehicle. Besides, self-profiting from the difference is tax evasion, contributing to inflation in Vietnam.

In early April, two dealers named ABC Nissan and Pinnacle in Arizona, USA were found to be selling cars with peanuts. Much like in Vietnam, the staff at these two stores bluntly declare to customers that if the buyer does not accept the purchase of additional equipment packages, they will be refused to buy the car. However, soon after, these two stores were then severely fined with a fine of up to half a million USD.

Therefore, in Vietnam, manufacturers and authorities should take action to strictly handle price-selling car dealerships. Most importantly, consumers need to use their privilege to be more cautious when buying a car, remember that we accept to pay the difference, we are also abetting behaviors that manipulate the automotive market. Vietnamese bowl.