Chinese cars in Kazakhstan are sold much cheaper than in Russia. The benefit can range from 15 to 40%. So Geely Coolray in the Comfort package dealers in Kazakhstan give for 12.5 million tenge – in terms of our money, this is more than 1.5 million rubles. In Russia, Geely Coolray costs about 2 million. A similar situation is observed in Belarus.
At the same time, dealers in both neighboring countries say that they do not sell cars to Russians.
If a customer with a Russian passport wants to buy a car, he must find a Kazakh or Belarusian intermediary and buy from him. In a dealer center in Minsk, they offered the service “Belarusian relative for a day”. That is, they sell a car to a citizen of Belarus, and he then resells it to a buyer from Russia. This service costs about 15 thousand rubles.
They refer to the fact that several countries do not have any database of electronic TCP. However, experts say that this is just an excuse: Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are part of a single customs union, there should be no problems.
Car dealers simply do not want to sell cars on the side, because they expect to receive further money, already from the maintenance and repair of sold cars.
As for prices, Russia now has the most expensive cars in the post-Soviet space, analysts say. The Chinese openly benefit from the situation that arose with the departure of Western brands from the Russian market.
Source: BFM
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