High prices, few buyers in the automarket

The automotive market in Pristina continues to function, but not as before, since the number of sales has dropped, along with it, the purchasing power.

Citizens say vehicle prices are high for their pocket, while vendors complain that with visa liberalisation and online sales, purchasing power has dropped.

Citizen Mon Peci, who had come to buy a car, is disappointed with high prices.

I've come to look for a car... a “Pass”

That prices are expensive and there are fewer solutions, says the citizen, Arsim Berisha.

I've come to look to buy a car... but very expensive... but there's less salesmen, very expensive squirrels... Now by phone and in car halls they're buying a whole”, Berisha says.

Automobile prices, in turn, consider “abnormal”, while lack of their sale is seen in the decline in the flow of buyers after the visa regime is removed.

Hysen Mazreku says visa liberalisation has affected the decline in the influx of buyers.

I'm out selling the car, we got three “Golf”...most of all has interest in them, slightly cheaper at the price, these are lack of money... There are fewer buyers...

Other vendor Murat Hashani says it rarely appears on the market for the sale of cars it takes mainly outdoors and for the price of which it says are not expensive.

I don't get out all the time, I get out of the way, the car's on the outside... I'm not keeping it very expensive. I don't know if it's expensive for anyone else, Hashan says.

The decline in shopping interest affects not only automotives, but also those who bring various goods from abroad, including antiques. A citizen who has brought in antiques from Vienna says there's a huge drop in buyers because according to him, wages are low.

Vienna's “falls this commodity. I don't lie to people. I'm just telling you, there's antiques that are 100 years ago. Since I get them there, I bring them. It's old-fashioned stuff... I'm on vacation, and when I come in I bring these things... 100 percent is down to buyers. For example, there are things I once sold 100 euros, and now 50 euros. The price has fallen, because people don't (front), is a bad situation in Kosovo. I'm here at 05 a.m. and I'm up to 1500x1>, he said.