Thread: Toyota's New Sales Plan

Originally Posted by cambo

2nd most expensive investment

investment
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noun
1.
the action or process of investing money for profit.

Originally Posted by Timmay

investment
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noun
1.
the action or process of investing money for profit.

OR
informal
buy (a relatively expensive product) whose usefulness will repay the cost.

Originally Posted by cambo

Yeah the pricing is 1 price for retail, 1 for fleet owners gst registered, and 1 for rentals.
The only ones that will make anything from a new sale will be TNZ. Dealers are almost cut right out of it.
Dunno how the sales team will make money. They got a shitty retainer and had to rely on commission to make any money. Now they'll be on a wage or salary which dealers wont want to pay as they not making anything to cover that.
Prices will have to be dramatically reduced to keep customers and attract new buyers.
Problem is people want a personal touch with the 2nd most expensive investment they'll make (next to their house), and making it an order online then pickup like a chinese takeaway will turn people away for sure.

Id of thought a wedding ring would be the most expensive investment? or most painful?

Originally Posted by Paddy79

Id of thought a wedding ring would be the most expensive investment? or most painful?

thats because there are 3 rings
engagement ring
wedding ring
suffer-ing

or its more like a game of bridge: it starts with a 2 hearts and a diamond, ends up with you wanting a club and a spade

I’ve shut a door! That was enough!

I'm all for this, I hate the tactics and pressure used by salesmen and they're effectively adding no value to the product yet taking a decent cut.

We'll see how it pans out, seems to work in most other areas of retail.

Originally Posted by Savage1

I'm all for this, I hate the tactics and pressure used by salesmen and they're effectively adding no value to the product yet taking a decent cut.

We'll see how it pans out, seems to work in most other areas of retail.

I'm picking the good salesfolk will move on to other brands or second hand. I'm with you, I think it will be better for the average customer without much purchasing leverage.

I think it will a good thing for the customer as it will make it the same for everyone.
I have owned heaps of hiluxs right back to my first 1981 hilux but earlier this year changed to a holden colorado.
This was because i was that annoyed with Toyota giving farmers an extra $4000 discount for being a Farmlands shareholder but not the same deal for regular Toyota customers that have always been loyal to the company.

Originally Posted by yogi

I think it will a good thing for the customer as it will make it the same for everyone.
I have owned heaps of hiluxs right back to my first 1981 hilux but earlier this year changed to a holden colorado.
This was because i was that annoyed with Toyota giving farmers an extra $4000 discount for being a Farmlands shareholder but not the same deal for regular Toyota customers that have always been loyal to the company.

Yeup...............thats exactly what I did too. And the eventual replacement to the colorado will also be a holden

Originally Posted by yogi

This was because i was that annoyed with Toyota giving farmers an extra $4000 discount for being a Farmlands shareholder but not the same deal for regular Toyota customers that have always been loyal to the company.

Fair one I guess.
You could of just joined farmlands to take advantage of the saving?


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Originally Posted by BRADS

Fair one I guess.
You could of just joined farmlands to take advantage of the saving?


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I think the point is you shouldn't need to do that, If they can afford to give one group a discount then why not regular people too

Originally Posted by mikee

I think the point is you shouldn't need to do that, If they can afford to give one group a discount then why not regular people too

Fair point I suppose Mikee, seems to happen a lot in life sometimes ya just gotta crack on though a.
We had to sign up to some deal a few years ago to save 6k on Mel's Ranger I think it was Q card?
Used it for the discount and chopped it up.

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Originally Posted by BRADS

Fair one I guess.
You could of just joined farmlands to take advantage of the saving?


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Priced up a new Hilux at the start of last month and there was hardly any difference in price between the Farmlands shareholder price and the price paying the dealer direct. Initially looked good with the 12k savings on the rrp with farmlands but the dealer gave similar "discount" and free orc. Didn't matter in the end as went with a different Ute.

Originally Posted by NZShoota

Priced up a new Hilux at the start of last month and there was hardly any difference in price between the Farmlands shareholder price and the price paying the dealer direct. Initially looked good with the 12k savings on the rrp with farmlands but the dealer gave similar "discount" and free orc. Didn't matter in the end as went with a different Ute.

I looked at the Farmands discount a few weeks back $3,400 difference between my quote and what a mate paid... nope.

Originally Posted by NZShoota

Priced up a new Hilux at the start of last month and there was hardly any difference in price between the Farmlands shareholder price and the price paying the dealer direct. Initially looked good with the 12k savings on the rrp with farmlands but the dealer gave similar "discount" and free orc. Didn't matter in the end as went with a different Ute.

Same here. Was quite surprised how little you get for 46K when you want a 4WD Hilux.