Can I Really Get a Good Deal?
A car dealership will hire an outside third party to come in and promote a high energetic Slasher Sales Event. These events can last anywhere from three to five days or more and are normally held over a long holiday weekend and are staffed with highly trained professional car salesmen.
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The company hosting the slasher sale will do an all-out, in your face, advertising blitz on radio, TV, direct mail, and newspaper in the days leading up to the event. The advertisements will offer cars being sold at incredibly low prices, including a car that will be sold for $88 or less.
These companies will have a disc jockey set up at the dealership playing music and sometimes have free food available or even door prizes.
The outside company will arrive at the dealership the night before and write the price on the windshields with a grease pencil. The secret is when they price the vehicles, they will be marked up $4,000 to $8,000 or more over the true cost of the car.
When they start slashing the price on the windshield in front of you, it gives you the impression you’re receiving thousands of dollars off the retail price of the vehicle. Pretty simple gimmick but you’d be surprised how well it works.
I’ve personally hosted Slasher Sale Events at my dealerships, the company put an actual fence around my dealership the night before the event. This creates curiosity and excitement as the line of people starts to grow at the front gate.
We hosted a Repo Joe sale at one of my dealerships and as you came through the gate you had to “register.” When you registered you had to give your social security number (you would be amazed how many people would just tell you their social security number without question). We would pull their credit right there on the spot and hand them a certain color balloon and tell them they must keep it with them.
If you had a red balloon the dealership staff knew you had horrible credit. If you had a blue balloon your credit was in the middle. If you had a green balloon you had GREAT credit. Needless to say, you had salespeople all over you if you were walking around with a green balloon.
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The idea behind the Slasher Sale ad is to get people excited about buying a car below what they would normally buy it for.
Don’t get caught up in all of the excitement going on around you on the lot. The whole idea behind the type of event is to get people excited, impulse buy, and make uneducated car-buying decisions.
100’s of Used Cars for as Low as $88*
*Only one at this price
Hundreds of high-quality cars will be sacrificed at special prices!
PRICES WILL BE SLASHED LIKE NEVER BEFORE!
Local dealer conducting a huge “Slasher Sale”
vehicles will be sold starting at $88!*
Attention Customers, (No Wholesalers or Dealers please)
All vehicles will be displayed in a secured area at ABC Motor Central, 5698 Free Auto Drive, Zuma CA. Public access will begin on Friday at 10:00 AM, and the event will continue through Saturday and Sunday close-of-business or until we run out of cars.
All vehicles will be unlocked and opened so you may view and inspect the vehicles for one hour. The normal selling price of each vehicle will be clearly marked on the windshield.
The sale will begin promptly at 11:00 AM, this sale is first-come-first-served. Whoever is sitting behind the wheel of a vehicle while the retail price is slashed will have the first right to purchase the car at the slashed price. Prices will be slashed one time to their rock-bottom-price.
We will also be selling a used car for only $88!*
You win and the dealer wins, the dealer has to move their overstocked inventory and you get the best price without haggling or wasting time.
This Event is Three Days Only
First Come First Served!
Friday, July. 17, 10 am – 8 pm
Saturday, July. 18, 10 am – 8 pm
Sunday, July. 19, 10 am – 7 pm
This “Slasher Sale Event” is a used car sales event being offered by ABC Motor Central on its current overstocked used car inventory. This event is to offer the public great deals on used cars before being forced to liquidate their inventory to local wholesalers and auctions.
$88* is not a down payment, it’s the actual price we’re selling a car for!
Prior bank assets | Overstocked | Hundreds of used cars to choose from
Cheap used cars | Affordable | Financing Available
Visit our website to preview our inventory: (companies web site)
*One $88 vehicle will be sold at 6:00 PM on Saturday via raffle to guests in attendance. Saturday raffle vehicle: ’91 Honda Civic, STK#C65891s, VIN# M2895461. Price does not include government fees, TT&L, finance charges, dealer documentation fees, preparation charges, and any emission testing charges.
These types of sales events bring in a lot of used car sales and profits for car dealerships across the country. Some of the good companies out there may sell up 80 cars or more making the car dealership $150,000.00+ in profits in only a 3 day time period.
The company that staffs the event will normally get a percentage of the total profit made from the cars sold. Another reason you should be very cautious when attending one of these types of events.
Insider car buying tip.
There are so many variables when it comes to used cars. It is almost impossible to figure the true cost a dealer paid for a used car. To protect yourself, the best thing you can do is try to estimate a dealer’s used car cost to get a good idea of what the dealer may have paid for the vehicle you’re interested in.
