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Is the arrival date on the buyatoyota.com site accurate?

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by paulisme, Apr 11, 2004.

  1. paulisme

    paulisme New Member

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    Okay, so buyatoyota.com says my Prius is arriving at my Toyota dealer today. I was wondering how accurate that date is, or if sometimes they're late. Unfortunately my Toyota dealership is closed today (something about a guy rising from the dead on the third day and saving the world or some nonsense) so I can't call to see if it's arrived. Should I expect it to be there tomorrow morning, or should I not get my hopes up? I'm getting kinda anxious over here.
     
    #1 paulisme, Apr 11, 2004
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    mikepaul Senior Member

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    Can't say. My car showed up without my knowing if it was on that list or not. I'd given up looking, since no previous updates had told me anything new...
     
    #2 mikepaul, Apr 11, 2004
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    How do you use buyatoyota.com to track such a thing??? I'm expecting mine in a week or so and would REALLY like to track it...
     
    #3 lawrenceingalls, Apr 12, 2004
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    http://buyatoyota.com/ will show you dealer inventories in the SouthEast only. Most dealers have a webpage that links to a New Car Inventory, and looking for Prius in that inventory (seems like one database for the whole SE) will let you know when the cars are due...
     
    #4 mikepaul, Apr 12, 2004
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    What I've been doing is going to the buyatoyota.com website, typing in my ZIP code, and clicking the link to my Toyota dealer. Then I click the Prius and it says if they're expecting one or if they have one available. I doubt this is very reliable, since it doesn't say if they're pre-sold, etc., but it did get me my Black Package #7 I was looking for. I sat at my computer for a couple hours typing in different ZIP codes from my state and states around me until I found one I wanted, then called and asked if they'd be willing to do a dealer trade for the one my dealer was getting. It took about 10 phone calls to finally get one locked down.
     
    #5 paulisme, Apr 12, 2004
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