I reckon there are some real cons out there in the nearly new market. A new car has VAT, a used one doesn't. You can break a new car price down to Total price = price *1.2. If you do the sums on the advertised nearly new and the advertised new prices, you can see that they are often trying to get away with charging you more than the cost of a new car, before tax. I've asked about this before, and told them a car is way overpriced. They have said fine, you understand that, but there are enough people out there who don't. The price stays. You should be able to take 17.67% off the price of a car as soon as it is sold, just to allow for VAT.