I did not get the bid this time round.... as expected..
my SE sms me... "TC tried the best despite u did not want to top up the bid... TC revised your bid to 12850 (compared to last bidding 12050) ... They have tried their best and i am equally disappointed as u."
Then follow by:
"Just came out from meeting with mgt fighting for unsuccessful coe case. Mgmt has secured some open cat coe from opem at either 13300 or 13801, Mgt will subsidised some amt but will still charge 1300 if u are keen on the open cat..."
OMG!!!
My SE probably think i m a ********
1) The revised bid of 12850 is still far short of the closing bid of at the time of bidding... TC only up the bid to 12850 (coincidentally with last bid COE) to justify they have tried their best
2) Top up amount of 1300 based on open cat 13300. i.e 13300-1300 = 12000 , which is the maximum COE TCM will bid for my case.
3) Then they might as well ask me to top up at 2nd bid extra 850 to get the COE... why wait till now..
4) If TC had tried their best and is sincere to their customer, then they should have asked me to top up 13300-12850 (based on the 3rd bid) = 450... rite?
Man... this ppl are really too much... think customers are all at their mercy...
My guess is at the CNY offer, TC have done their sum wrongly and push their mistake to the customer....
It is really ******** to sell a car based on COE of 12000 when everyone knows that COE will definitely go up after Feb...
By the way, i did not squeeze the SE to give me the 60112 price... she is the one who agreed to the price with the things i asked for...
Also, I was offered by another SE car price of 59500 becos one of my business contact is a childhood friend of one of the brother in the TC family...
But becos i test drive the car earlier with the present SE and was told my "name" was logged in the TC's database... if i switch SE will create conflict... also i feel paiseh since the present SE help me to get the bank loan approval, etc...
So in the end, i decided to order from the present SE despite i can save at least $500 more...
I guess the morale of the story is :
Ask your SE how much is the COE bid based on the car price they are selling you.... in this way... you know whether the price is realistic ....
and trust no one... not even a AD of the size of TC...
Moving on... I have decided not to top up a single cent... maybe will top up maximum the free abalone they gave during the CNY promo which i have not collected yet.... if TCM really wants me to top up to increase my COE bid for the next 3 rounds of bid...
Now looking at Honda Airwave instead... any bro interested to mass purchase ??