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I think a lot of the objection is that dealers don't make it clear what they're actually selling the thing for. I've heard of plenty of cases (so yeah, anecdat
by paranoidrobot 4y ago
I think a lot of the objection is that dealers don't make it clear what they're actually selling the thing for.
I've heard of plenty of cases (so yeah, anecdata) where a dealer might advertise the car at MSRP, but it's not until you get in there, and actually try to buy it that they reveal they won't actually sell it for MSRP - there's "market adjustments", and mandatory addons and other things.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoPrice obfuscation and outright lies are of course, unacceptable. I think the general advice for years though, has been to email dealerships asking for final price and using Costco as the benchmark for who to waste time with or not. Although, the supply demand situation may have shifted so far into seller’s favor that dealers can abandon even those standards.
- paranoidrobot 4y ago> dealers can abandon even those standards. Again, based on anecdata, They really have. I heard of one person who confirmed a price with a dealer, drove there, then suddenly Salesmanager Bob (who confirmed the price) is suddenly unavailable, and the other sales managers couldn't possibly honour that because there's all these other fees, charges, mandatory addons for it. Their attitude is basically if you want it, and you've spent this much time already trying to buy it - what's another couple of thousand to you.