I lost 2 bid in month of February.
2 Weeks Ago
Last bid, TCM only bid 12050k for me. Was pissed off becos the COE closed at 12850k. I told her everyone know COE is going up... why TCM do not secure the bid now, if not the COE will go up further. She told me the bid price is set by management, she got no say.
I was even more pissed, I told her that TCM is only willing to bid at 12000k at every round, then dun bother, refund me my money and let me move on. I rather let other ppl earn my money. She say bo bian and ask me to top up 1k for Open Cat.. or top up a few hundred dollars more for the next bid....
Today
My SE sms me to top up 1k to try to secure the COE in the next week bid. She told me that she is submitting rebid by tomorrow and "current batch people already paying 63500 after disc. Since your ARF rebate is around 1500...suggest to increase bid by 1k to get a good chance ..."
I reply her that i remember she told me
1) TCM does not practice asking customers to top up for COE
2) Bid price is determined by management
She replied saying she say "TCM DOES NOT FORCE CUSTOMERS to top up COE bid... your Package include many freebies which will eventually affect co's cost.... U in biz (i told her i am self employed) so u know the cost factor."
WTF....
I told her off .... TCM obviously cannot force customers to top up... the selling price of the car is determined by TCM, not me... if they cannot project their cost on the COE correctly when they priced the car... how can they shift the cost to the customer? In business, does not mean always have to make $$, an agreement is an agreeement... lost $$ also have to honour agreement...
THE BEST REPLY YET:
"Why don't u consider now that the coe will be going up higher. your arf rebate is a windfall which means the overall car price is lesser....."
WTFF...
I already told her 2 weeks ago COE is going up...and TCM does not want to bid at 12850k to secure it... she is reminding me of how TCM is screwing us the customers....
My guess is that they purposely let go the COE in Feb... and wait until March and get the customer to top up with their own $$ from the so called "windfall" and to avoid losing $$ on the rising COE.
Wat rubbish... the ARF rebate is only a paper gain... when we scrap the car... the scrap value will also be similiarly lower...
I have really regretted booking the car with TCM.... and the thought of having to wait for another 4 more bid (2 months) of nonsense from them really pissed me off.... knowing that they probably will continue to bid at 12000k and evey other 2 weeks will ask me to top up for COE....
Sigh.... I will not top up for the COE ... I rather not get the car also... waste time...
