Documentation/Administration Fees

[AldridgePrior]

Been looking at buying another bike the last few weeks and have noticed that amount of dealer adverts that slip in a fee on top of the price.
I mean, you want to buy a bike with no trade in and no finance yet they have the audacity to ask you for more to facilitate the sale? £99 right up to £199 for what exactly?
So you're paying to pay for it? Are these fees justified as I'd rather they included the whole thing so the price you see is the price you pay.

Anyone else irked by this? It kinda sours an otherwise attractive advert.

[Ste]

Link?

[AldridgePrior]

Fancy a tourer (max £7k) as a 2nd bike that can take a pillion and cover a few miles on.

This caught my attention.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2007-YAMAHA-FJR1300-in-SILVER/254417920528?hash=item3b3c7d6210:g:wT0AAOSw3tddyU16

[Ste]

Meh, ask to buy it without the £99 extra fee.

[Freddyfruitba...]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Selling on behalf of a customer, perhaps?

[Ste]

It's the same for every bike on their website.

[P.]

[AldridgePrior]

[Shaft]

[MCN]

You can aye just buy from a shower of cunts who do not itemise their costs and hump it into the GT.

It's not like you owe them anyfink. Yet.
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[defblade]

"Admin charges" are pretty much 100% not legal (see https://www.whatcar.com/advice/buying/used-car-admin-fees-should-i-pay-them/n18825 ) - the price on the sticker should be the total price, which should include all their costs for paperwork, staff, cleaning, etc... you don't get to the checkout at Sainsburys to find they're adding £10 for keeping the floors clean and giving you a paper receipt...

Nobody seems to care about this utter rip-off con though, so your only real option is to walk away and let them know why. Doubtless, like me, you will be "the only person" who has ever done so.
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[weasley]

There's nothing in there about legality, just a gentleman's agreement amongst those who have signed up to it.

The stuff they are supposedly charging for now is stuff that used to just get done and was part of the buying price. Now they are stripping out these things in order to lower the sticker price, but then slapping it in the mouse script. It's like eBay listings with a low price but high P&P.

As always though, caveat emptor. Read everything carefully. Haggle and when things don't go your way, feel free to take your money elsewhere.
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[A100man]

They do it at Car Giant too. Bought a Mini for the (ex) wife there. Decent price even with the farcical 'admin' charge. What galled me more was having to sit through there shit presentation on warranty and paint treatment options. I sat for a about 45 mins repeatedly saying.. 'No, I just want the car'... I got it, eventually.
What a place though - literally a sales production line. You are even given an appointment time to collect your car.
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[stinkwheel]

A word on extended warranties.

We got bait and switched recently on a car extended warranty. The Mrs liked the idea of an extended warranty and all the documentation they showed us was by a third party, accredited provider. We checked them out online before agreeing to it.

When the paperwork came through, they'd substituted their "own" in-house extended warranty with a similar sounding name and logo which among other things stipulated they had to do all the work and any routine servicing in their own workshop. Given they are 200 miles from home and twice failed to properly balance the wheels, not an option.

A carefully worded letter ("mis-selling" was the main word, used repeatedly) saw the originally agreed warranty documents arrive through the post.
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[Polarbear]

The ticket extras bug the hell out of me.

I go to the theatre in MK quite regularly. If I buy tickets on line from ATG (The Ambassador Theatre Group so not even a client ticket site) there are all these extras admin fees and whatever. Yet if I go into the theatre, where a nice girl serves me from behind a desk, I don't pay anything extra.

You would think they would rather encourage you to use the online buying rather than pay said girl to sit behind her desk on the off chance someone will come in to buy a ticket.

Grrrrrr!
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[defblade]

[Ste]