Yeah, I don't think they play games, but they are slaves to the algorithm compared to a traditional dealer. There, you can push back to save the deal.
In your case, the tax credits really help the deal. I'd do a trade up every year if our state had a credit.
Not really, no. I'm giving up roughly $3,000 for the "convenience" of being able to trade it in and walk away with the new one.
The trade offer that they gave me is quite literally the bottom of where I would even consider accepting it. $31,500 is not amazing based on what I paid for it.
The amount of tax that I save on the taxable difference when I trade it in is less than $1,500. That makes the total net value to me as a trade-in less than $34,000.
In other words, every dollar above that I sell it for on the private market is money in my pocket, not Tesla's.
I currently have it listed for upper $30s and could easily discount it to mid $30s and still net more money in my pocket than if I took that trade offer. Hell, I could fire sale it for $36k and have enough additional compared to trading it in to completely pay for the performance of grade if I so choose.
Even at those figures, I'm still debating pulling my trade from the deal and just keeping it listed. I've got tons of space in the garage so it's really a non-issue so I don't see it as a deal breaker either way. I've been known to stand on principal over far less money than that if they want to play games when I arrive to process the transaction.
So yeah, I don't see the taxable difference as really helping the deal at all. I don't anticipate them playing any games with me but I've read a few posts as of late where people have said that the day of their trade-in what they got was far less than the original estimate. In most cases, there were no details left out during the time of the estimate that were found at the time of trade in based on what they said.
I'm going into this with an open mind but the moment they try to fudge the numbers in their favor based on no new information it will immediately validate those other posts that I saw.
Here's to hoping they don't try to play any games with me because I will make sure that everyone I come into contact with will know the full details of said shenanigans which will far out way the pennies they would have made off of my individual transaction.