What items were you able to get the dealer to throw into your deal?
04-13-06, 07:00 PM
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What items were you able to get the dealer to throw into your deal?
Anyone get a longer period of maintenance included?
I was thinking of asking for ClearBra, Sirius and possibly longer maintenance like BMW. I am negotiating the price tomorrow evening.
I was thinking of asking for ClearBra, Sirius and possibly longer maintenance like BMW. I am negotiating the price tomorrow evening.
04-13-06, 07:11 PM
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Mine wouldn't give anything. Basically, an "if you want it, here's what it costs" approach. They will, however, pick up and return my car for service. Since it is 40 - 45 min. one way, this will save me a fair amount of time.
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04-13-06, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by hguy4x
nothing. I got mine for invoice. The real invoice without dealer holdback. =)
Sure you did! Post a scanned copy of your bill of sale and then I will believe that!
04-14-06, 09:59 AM
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I got three years of seasonal tire changeovers, including mount and balance, from summer to snow tires and back. It's a perk I figure is worth well over $500, even at the prices my local discount tire store charges.
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Just the all season floor mats, Sirius unit, install, and 9 mos. of it. The Sirius is probably a promotion through Penske dealerships but, oh well, it's money I don't have to spend on it. 
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Originally Posted by hguy4x
nothing. I got mine for invoice. The real invoice without dealer holdback. =)
No dealer, none will sell you a car for less than or equal to what it costs them. The only way what you say can happen is:
1. The dealer really took you when you did your trade in and he made a ton of money there.
AND/OR
2. You leased or financed through them and they made up more than the difference to MSRP in financing fees, ineterst, acquisition fees etc.
$$$ off MSRP has no meaning without details about the rest of the deal unless you did not have a trade and paid the whole thing in cash, which probably happens in less than 5% of the cases.
For most of the buyers it is one of many numbers involved in their transaction. What the dealer gives you off MSRP, he/she makes up from the other parts of the transaction that you are not as conscious of as the MSRP since the MSRP is always the highest number involved. Going back to the original post, I asked for annual detailing, oil changes and all-season floor mats. They agreed to take off another $500 beyond what we had agreed on so I was happy. They also gave me the mats at cost.
