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Originally Posted by kaviprem I understand. This is a good amount of delay and this should NOT happen at all. Even if the vehicle has to be manufactured, it should NOT take more than 1 month time. Thats my understanding when I went through a whole lot of TATA process during my Safari purchase. I will PM you the netx higher authority eMail Id and I am sure, he would help you.
Btw, whats the color that you chose in GX and who is the sales-rep (Srinivas or Ashok or ....) ? I am assuming you are dealing with Dairy circle branch of CM.
If it took only 1 week for your vehicle delivery, then, yours was available in plant readily and they just had to ship it out. So, yours is totally a different case.
Cancelling the booking is not going to help here. KHT in Bangalore already in bad-shape as far as I know. So, its better to stay with Concorde being a TATA direct dealership though they work (somewhat) like a government organization.
True, no point in switching the dealership. I would say, wait, but make sure to lock the final pricing.
VIN can be given to customer only when the vehicle is ready to marched in from the plant (meaning, put in queue for shipment). I tried the same in Dec 2009 to lock the price with the "Free" insurance offer saying that get me the VIN as soon as Plant starts manufacturing and working on chasis, etc ... They had a point here - Only after all the QC's that they perform, it would be invoiced to the concerned dealer and then ready for marching in. Only then, the dealer can lock in the price.
Any price change till the point vehicle is marching in for shipment, will be on the purchaser. Its not going to be the same price as that of "booking" time.
However, in this case (like Arjit mentionted above), the KA registration and VAT is increasing. So, this price hike can also be NOT effected (or locked in the dealer) since this pricing would be on the RTO receipt. So, this can not be avoided.
Bose, Dont worry, I will PM you the further contacts. You should get better help. If you are willing to share your personal or contact number, PM me. I can try helping here.
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@kaviprem: Brother, thats what i have said regarding the VIN. VIN can only be supplied when the vehicle is ready in the plant for shipping.
If it ain't ready in the plant itself, there is little for the customer to do.
Regarding the increment in price, while booking my GX with the invoice amount (Rs. 50,000), I confirmed with the dealer regarding the bearer of any possible price increment between booking and delivery.
That's when the dealer informed me, if booking is done with the minimum booking amount (Rs. 10000), we don't get any VIN number and also, any increment in the price before delivery taking place will have to be borne by me. A minimum booking amount will only book the said make, model and variant in the customer's name but not any particular vehicle.
Where as, if booked with a minimum invoice amount (Rs. 50000) a particular vehicle of the concerned make, model, variant is booked in the customer's name, against which we is allotted a VIN number (if the vehicle is ready in the plant). Primarily, the invoice amount confirms the price at which the customer is to take delivery of the vehicle, the price at the time of booking.
This is not my opinion but, what the dealer has said me. So I am not in a position to bet against these words.
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Originally Posted by 4x4addict This is not true my friend. You pay the price in effect when your vehicle is invoiced. The vehicle can be invoiced only after the factory gives the chasis/engine number. |
Yeah you are correct.
Maybe my I wasn't very clear in my post but, what i meant was, booking with the minimum invoice amount means invoicing the vehicle at the price agreed upon at the time of booking by paying the minimum booking by invoice amount (Rs. 50000). This is what i had done.
To elaborate, i have purchased my vehicle under the December 2009 scheme where, Tata Motors were bearing the 1st year insurance premium and extended warranty amount.
I did not have any intention to purchase this vehicle this soon but, the discount offered pushed me. Now, arrangements with my financer actually consumed some time and I could only book the vehicle on the last day of the offer.
I was intending to book it with very minimum amount. On enquiring, the sales guy hence said, the minimum amount to be booked with is Rs. 10000 however, on booking with this amount, my vehicle will not be locked at that price (discounted) and i will have to pay the normal price while invoicing it and also the increments if any.
He then told, in order to avoid any price increments and also get the discounted price at the time of delivery in January, i would have to book with a minimum invoice booking amount of Rs. 50000. That's what i had opted for.
Though the sales manager asked for an invoice amount of Rs. 100,000 he later agreed at Rs. 50,000. Right in front of me, he locked the vehicle, and drew me the receipt, booking the vehicle at a price tag of Rs. 10,80,000 (the then price of GX 4x4).