A serious new car stocking has started in Turkey, especially after the pandemic. Individuals who define themselves as “gallery owners” collect all new cars from dealers and sell them for twice the price. Here are the details about the never-ending zero-car terror in Turkey…
Dealers and galleries are both involved: The people are victims!
Citizens who want to buy new cars face serious problems. Citizens who cannot find cars in the dealerships are forced to turn to “second-hand car dealerships”. However, the strange thing is that they buy “new cars” instead of “used cars” from these galleries. Galleries buy and stock cars from dealers, and the public cannot find cars to buy at dealerships.
In recent weeks, Mercedes-Benz has started to make all its sales online in order to prevent this incident. However, in a very short time, the online sales stocks were exhausted. The sad thing is, in the photos shared on social media, it was seen that the dealers bought these cars in bulk.
Big fine from the Ministry of Commerce to car dealers who are opportunistic!
In its latest statement, the Ministry of Commerce stated that car dealers who engage in opportunism will be penalized. Here are the details…
Galleries collect cars from dealers and sell them at serious prices. The compelled citizen goes and buys it from the gallery. Because the prices will increase even more next month. Those lining up at the dealerships are dealing with another problem. Hand payment and sale of accessories.
The aforementioned hand payment and sale of accessories is the other dimension of the event. Some car dealerships drop new cars on their second-hand lists. Then, like opportunistic dealers, they sell these cars for twice the market price. However, the point here is different. The aforementioned dealers show the sales of the cars at the list prices. But he takes the remaining 100-150 thousand TL from you by hand.
Some dealers are trying to do this with the sale of accessories. Ceramic coating, hood protection films, window film, chrome kits, wheel covers, etc. It sells equipment such as 150 thousand TL to you. Thus, they sell the vehicles at exorbitant prices like the dealers in the market and present this sale as “accessory sales”. If you do not want to buy these accessories, they do not sell the car to you.
The Ministry of Commerce is working on the issue. Last week, a total of 18 million TL fine was written to 3 dealers. But this immoral trade seems to have no end. If serious measures are not taken, it will be completely a dream to buy a new car in the face of high prices, taxes and exchange rates.