Odyssey Luxury MY07 used price ?

[JazzMi]

Hi,

I'm in the market for a used Honda Odyssey Luxury model MY07 and I'm looking at the price ranges compared to red book and it varies substantially.

I've got a dealer asking $39990 for a MY07 model that has only done 20,000km, is that a good price ? The car is nearly 3 years old so based on an average of $3000-$4000 per year loss in value, I would have thought it should be priced maybe $37000 ?

I presume the margin on used cars are much more than new ones ?? right ?

[AusAccord]

My friend sold (private sell) his MY07 Luxury Odyssey RB1 3 months ago for $32000 and u can think how much dealers are making. By that time, all the used car dealers only paying him max $28k.......the price for a luxury RB1 3 years ago was $47k and 3 yrs later they are asking $40k? I doubt its a good price but don't quote me on it as i'm not an expert.

[JazzMi]

Thanks AusAccord ! I needed to know that !

Don't want to appear too eager to the salesman !!

[evolution]

One thing to note is that Eastern State cars are cheaper and that Redbook data has a bias towards the east as there are simply more people there. I would have expected an 07 to be around the $35k - $36k mark, a friend sold his 05 for $28k. $39 is way to expensive for a 07, but dealers have been known to be more expensive than private sales. Why don't you try private sales? There are quite a few at the moment.

[JazzMi]

It's more the colours available as the "boss" is bias... I must say there is more choice in the East and the pricing is much better there and if I include freight costs, it can be cheaper than here ! but the hassle of shipping it here, not test driving it...nothing beats a visual inspection and test drive !

Thanks for your input though...

[evolution]

ohh let me guess the 'boss' wants the deep purple colour (Amethyst Black Pearl)?

[JazzMi]

Haha..! actually no, she says 'Amethyst Black Pearl' makes the car look like a hearse !

Carbon Bronze with black leather interior is the boss's requirements, second choice would be silver but actually, I personally like the grey mauve

I was luckily enough to get approval to get an ODC , so I can compromise with the colour requirements. )

[evolution]

lol your story sounds all too familiar.... Yep, black interior is good. I originally wanted white, but I couldn't live with the brown woodgrain and I wasn't adventurous enough to go with either the purple or the bronze, so I went with Silver in the end, should have listened to the wife and get the purple.........

[quadrio]

BLACK all the way

[JazzMi]

LOL ;-) I understand !

[Atjo]

The interior for carbon bronze is beige? Unless if you're talking about the based model. I paid for my 08 white odyssey luxury for $43000 brand new on january 09. The dealer had to swap their black odyssey with a white odyssey from a dealer in queensland as there's only 1 dealer in victoria that had white and i didn't want to deal with them. I even got a better car as mine was built 2 months newer than the other one. The freight is only around $500 from melbourne to perth.

[AusAccord]

Hey, don't say its "base model", sounds cheap........ official is called "standard model".......... just j/k