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Originally Posted by fbodfather
By the way -
I need to say this:
If you think dealers are crooks -- you should see what the public will pull........
If I had a nickel for every customer that had their car or truck appraised for trade -- and THEN pulled the 'new' tires off of it -- or pulled the custom stereo out - or removed add-on accessories......
The point is this:
NOT ALL DEALERS ARE CROOKS -- The MAJORITY are very respected business people who do incredible amounts of charity in their communities.....
Don't believe everything you read -- esp. if you don't know who's typing it!
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Absolutely true!!!
It's unfortunate that many large market dealers, frequently within a couple hundred miles of New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami, use the relatively large aggregate wealth of the area to test consumer patience. I don't really like it either, but I would never pay these ridiculous over MSRP prices. Myself...well I just don’t need
ANY car that badly.
The Las Vegas dealerships pointed out in this thread know that there are impulsive buyers that "have to stay ahead of the Jones" and will buck-up a few extra grand just to show-off. Once a couple of cars are held in inventory for a few weeks, asking prices will come back to earth. Nothing new here....Simple supply and demand economics that we best not change.
Playing the devils advocate, and in fairness to all dealers, should they not complain when we're trying to buy under sticker then?? We all must keep in mind that the "S" in MSRP is a still just a "suggested" number by manufactures like GM. They are free to ask $10K over today and your free to offer $10K under tomorrow when the tables turn....as they certainly will!! Look at the Z06 Corvette for example, early last year, they still brought a $10K MSRP premium...today $20K under MSRP is occurring for late 2008 VINs still held in inventory.
In this electronic world...anyone with the skill to post on this site can shop the entire country for a fair price on any car...I'm getting #4245 a couple hundred $$ over invoice at an upstanding Midwest dealership. There are plenty of dealers with allocation that will beat MSRP all day long...right now. It just takes a little more effort on your part. As I understand it, GM rewards dealers willing to sell volume in lieu of price with extra allocations of popular cars....these are the operators to seek-out.
