If you are considering part exchanging your current vehicle we are able to provide you with a quote. For an accurate quote please contact one of our Sales Consultants on freephone 0800 085 7296 or complete our part exchange form either by clicking here or when you enquire about any vehicle through the website. One of our vehicle valuers will contact a selection of trade buyers to secure the best possible price for your vehicle.
About your part exchange
At Pentagon we guarantee low prices on our entire range of vehicles. We check our prices every day so you can be confident that you can’t buy better or cheaper anywhere else.
When a customer has a vehicle to part exchange our aim is to offer most competitive ‘Cost to Change’ deal. Due to our pricing policy even if our part exchange price is lower than you may have been expecting or have been offered elsewhere we are confident that on most occasions our ‘Cost to Change’ will be lower than any other like for like deal in the country.
There are a few reasons why your part exchange price will differ from dealer to dealer. At Pentagon we operate a transparent part exchange policy where your part exchange price is based on the trade value of your vehicle in the market at the time of your enquiry.
Some dealers you visit may be able to offer you a higher price for your part exchange. They will normally do this by advertising the car you want to purchase for considerably more money than we would for a similar car. By doing this, they will often use the extra profit potential in the car you want to ‘over-allow’ on the price of your vehicle i.e. adding a perceived value onto your part exchange’s real trade value, giving you an inflated valuation.
Put simply, this is a sales technique that misleads customers into thinking that they are getting a better deal than the actually are. The only important figure is the ‘Cost to Change’ figure. Take a look at the example below and you’ll see what we mean. Here, imagine you take your car (that you want to part exchange) to two car dealers and look at two cars, both of which are exactly the same other than the advertised price:
TYPICAL EXAMPLE |
Dealer Number One |
Dealer Number Two |
a) Advertised Price Of Vehicle |
£8495.00 |
£9695.00 |
b) Part Exchange Valuation |
£4100.00 |
£5000.00 |
c) Cost To Change (a minus b) |
£4395.00 |
£4695.00 |
Cost to Change Difference |
|
+£300.00 |
Here it becomes clear that the important figure is not the part exchange valuation but the ‘Cost to Change’. In this example, even though Dealer Number Two has offered £900 more for the part exchange, the ‘Cost to Change’ (i.e. what you will spend by changing cars) at Dealer Number One is actually £300 lower. At Pentagon, we prefer to be honest and transparent like Dealer Number One, and because our selling prices start so low, any difference in our part exchange valuation will almost always be more than eliminated by the low price of car you’re purchasing.
But don’t just take our word for it. If you are shopping around for your next car, why not compare the ‘Cost to Change’ at each place you visit for yourself?
Please note that we can only provide an estimate of your vehicles current value until we actually see it.
