LX600 Luxury Pricing (Window sticker)
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Pole Position
The more you sell this year, the more you can sell next year.
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Driver School Candidate
I think you're right about local allocations, just testing that theory here and looking for some confirmation. I've never purchased a car locally, guess I'm traveling again for this one.
Last edited by Cadusom; 01-16-22 at 11:37 AM.
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Driver School Candidate
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Driver School Candidate
Just gonna roll with it for now; if they ask for a few bucks down I’ll do it. Going to explore out of area options and inquire with Lexus corporate about the practice. Reality is my trade in is worth at least $10k more than it should be. If I ever make it to the table, we’ll see how much those post purchase survey responses are worth too.
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Racer
Just gonna roll with it for now; if they ask for a few bucks down I’ll do it. Going to explore out of area options and inquire with Lexus corporate about the practice. Reality is my trade in is worth at least $10k more than it should be. If I ever make it to the table, we’ll see how much those post purchase survey responses are worth too.
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Pole Position
Just wanted to chime in. We've contacted Lexus corporate over the IS500 markups which are ridiculous and they took a major back seat approach and said Lexus of North America is a wholesaler of vehicles and final pricing is set by the dealers. They really don't care, and it sucks
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Pit Crew
Thread Starter
After a classic case of bait and switch my salesperson has indicated that in order to secure the car I have to be the first to show up in order to "buy" it when it switches from "allocated" to "in transit" at their dealership. Essentially participating in a race against other buyers. They also indicated their sales management are marking it up $20k. Quite laughable. This is after they portrayed themselves as an "MSRP" dealer. Needless to say I'm taking my business elsewhere. This was Lexus of Fremont, CA. I have a deposit and am in line at another dealership which unfortunately has no allocation yet. They are luckily the highest volume dealership in my area and currently sell at MSRP. (Lexus of Stevens Creek)
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Thread Starter
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Racer
After a classic case of bait and switch my salesperson has indicated that in order to secure the car I have to be the first to show up in order to "buy" it when it switches from "allocated" to "in transit" at their dealership. Essentially participating in a race against other buyers. They also indicated their sales management are marking it up $20k. Quite laughable. This is after they portrayed themselves as an "MSRP" dealer. Needless to say I'm taking my business elsewhere. This was Lexus of Fremont, CA. I have a deposit and am in line at another dealership which unfortunately has no allocation yet. They are luckily the highest volume dealership in my area and currently sell at MSRP. (Lexus of Stevens Creek)
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Pit Crew
Thread Starter
That's a classic bait and switch, and if you have in writing that they were claiming MSRP before, I would ask to sit down and speak to the General Manager of the dealer. Not of the sales department, the whole dealer. Speaking about our experience in IS land, a couple people have secured Launch Edition IS500s at MSRP at Lexus of Stevens Creek. So I don't expect them to change their stance on that.
They told me it was the first one in California but that may be them attempting to hype it up. I know Lexus of Pleasanton now has one allocated but they are only selling at MSRP to zip codes in their area. Likely in order to generate post-sale service revenue.