What a fuck up this past month has been. I’m going to summarise.
1) I place order for a GT3 gen2 at Porsche Reading
2) Car arrives, I’m deliriously happy – so much so, that I want to go for an RS gen2
3) I get an opportunity to take a friends order for a 1st place RS. Dealer in question agrees to the swap.
4) I decide to sell the GT3 in anticipation of the forthcoming RS. Porsche Reading make me an offer and I accept.
5) Porsche ask questions about this ‘RS’ I’ve organised. I say very little. Shortly after, a memo gets sent around to all dealers – “No order transfers are allowed”.
6) I lose my slot on the RS
7) I ask Porsche to sell me back my GT3 – they agree on the Friday. I ask for some short time to arrange finances
8) I call back Monday multiple times and email them to arrange transfer
9) Tuesday I receive email that explains car has been sold to somebody else.
This makes me sick to the teeth. I’m pretty much convinced Porsche Reading have had a hand in ensuring that this RS order got rescinded. Still, having just purchased my 3rd GT3 (only parted £90k with them a month before) I’d have expected a little common courtesty over the weekend by way of “Hi Cem, I’ve got somebody interested, do you definitely want the car back?”. Nothing.
Even now, I am sending emails to them asking for Dealer Principle names and I am being ignored.
Perhaps I should have done what any other budding opportunist would have done by way of making a massive premium on the car when I sold it. I could easily have put a £10k sticker on top.
Ugh…
hi Cem, the dealer principal’s name is :
Paul Westaway
i belive
Hope this helps. They seem to be a bunch of tit’s to me.
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Hmmm, points 4,5 +6 are the wrong way around though mate, in terms of timeline.
Them selling the car without notice is nothing short of disgusting imo, i’d be taking that to the top !!!
G.
Sounds like you need to pay an unannounced visit to the dealership, indicating that you won’t be leaving until either: a) you retain the slot on the RS, or b) you drive away in your ‘old’ car.
I’d be making the visit on the morning of their busiest weekly trading day (Saturday?), and be prepared to speak in non-too-hushed tones ;)
Best of luck!
Letter on the way to Porsche GB.
If order swaps are not allowed and you know the bloke with the RS order just get him to go ahead and then transfer the car to you when it arrives.
That was the original idea and I WISH I’d have stuck to it. Two reasons I didn’t go ahead with that.
1) I didn’t want 2 owners on the book from new (although in hindsight, that shouldn’t have really been a worry – owners don’t matter on a car like that)
2) I wanted to build up a dealer relationship when buying a £100k car. You need that relationship.
No joy at Malton Cem, seeming as you’ve ignored my last post. ;)
Only trying to help.
Rich, I replied to your comment here mate:
http://www.blowdog.com/cars/whirlwind-romance-ends/ :)
I don’t want to buy at a premium, that is what these people are looking for. I had a very nice long lunch chat with MD of Porsche Marketing yesterday at the Porsche GT3RS preview event at Silverstone. He really wants to know who these speculators and independents are because that is exactly what they’re trying to stop. Now, if I were to be an intelligent man, I’d wager a guess and say that Porsche probably know who these people already are. However, it’s not my business to grass up the independents so I won’t be sharing that info, even though I know of at least 4 companies who will have brand new RS’s to sell.
Fair play to you, I missed the reply completely, so |I forgive you. ;).
I must admit I’m aware that Porsche are not too keen on speculators charging over list (nor am I to be honest) however, I thought that applied to new cars, hence the reason why they make the original person, the person who places their deposit pay for the car.
The car then becomes second hand if they sell it on at an inflated price and I doubt Porsche can do anything about that!
Hope you get it sorted in any case.