Check Edmunds or KBB price. Usually you can get below "dealer trade in" price for "average" condition.
Yes most dealers take trade-in as average condition no matter how clean you think your car is.
CPO should add another $2k on top.
I think you can get loaded CPO '06 at low 20's. Just my guess though.
Really - low 20s for loaded '06 CPO? Where should I look - I haven't found anything it that price range, especially CPO thru MB dealer. Thanks for your input.
For about upper 20's you can get a low mileage R500 CPO. The R350 should cost a few thousand less, about mid 20s. Don't go by what the dealer asks. Check Edmunds and figure out what the car you are looking at is worth. Then go to the dealer and make an offer. If you justify your offer, they will probably accept it. Dealers typically inflate their prices in anticipation of someone bargaining. In the end, we, the consumers that make an offer end up buying the car at its fair price... We go home thinking we got a deal but usually we pay fair market price, which is still ok!
So when I decided to get an 06 R350, I did a search for about 300 miles around me. I live in Western PA. I ended up buying in Virginia. I got a 06 R350 with Nav/ Panoramic roof for a little under 20k with 43K miles. The mileage was a little high. I saw the equivalent cars with less mileage for about 3-5K more. I found most dealers to be willing to negotiate. I went to the MB dealership and a r350 with less features and higher mileage was priced at 25K. I did my searches primarily through autotrader and set up an alert for when new cars came up which helped.
So when I decided to get an 06 R350, I did a search for about 300 miles around me. I live in Western PA. I ended up buying in Virginia. I got a 06 R350 with Nav/ Panoramic roof for a little under 20k with 43K miles. The mileage was a little high. I saw the equivalent cars with less mileage for about 3-5K more. I found most dealers to be willing to negotiate. I went to the MB dealership and a r350 with less features and higher mileage was priced at 25K. I did my searches primarily through autotrader and set up an alert for when new cars came up which helped.
We bought our R350 CPO w/26K miles last October or so for ~$26K, IIRC. That was for pano/nav/heated seats/power lift, etc.
I just made an offer on a '07 CPO R350 with 34K miles listed for $32K. Offered $24,200 and the came back at $31K so i passed. I am not finding any deals. I thought it would be much easier in this economy.
Not sure where you are located, but i did a quick search today and found a whole set of 2006 R350s in the lower 20s. Most of them located in VA, not sure why. When I did my original search, they were a lot there too. Not sure if folks are not discounting as much now as they were in Feb, but i found when looking at carfax reports, i could see when the dealer acquired it and how long it had sat on the lot. That helped me from a negotiation standpoint. Good luck.
Not sure where you are located, but i did a quick search today and found a whole set of 2006 R350s in the lower 20s. Most of them located in VA, not sure why. When I did my original search, they were a lot there too. Not sure if folks are not discounting as much now as they were in Feb, but i found when looking at carfax reports, i could see when the dealer acquired it and how long it had sat on the lot. That helped me from a negotiation standpoint. Good luck.
Thanks for the info - it's appreciated. We will be willing to go to VA. We live in Central PA. I have been using the Benz CPO finder and Autotrader using a 200 mile radius.
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