Don't pay that much!

I could have bought my 2006 Prius for $500 over invoice, but I didn’t like the Sales Manager’s attitude so I told him to keep his car. I then proceeded an hour up the highway, walked in and ordered my Prius for $700 over invoice. It was worth the $200 to walk out on the other dealer. The General sales manager still called me the next day and said that he still wanted a chance to earn my business at the $500 over invoice price.
I don’t know how you buy your cars, but what I do is decide exactly what I want and then e-mail every dealer within 150 miles stating that I will be buying this car. I state that I don’t mind ordering and waiting for it, if necessary. If you are interested please let me know within two weeks. Also, please state every thing included and the out the door price so that all I need to do is show up with my money. I e-mail each dealer individually and do not mass e-mail everyone at once.
Granted, out of about 25 dealers, 10 won’t reply, 10 will, because I’m such a nice guy, give me the pleasure of only paying MSRP….. But so far (twice, different dealers) there has always been at least two who want to sell me my car. I just felt like I needed to put this out there. Not to mention that I just became a member and I needed to see if I could put one of these out.
Roger and out

 

Jack 06

I live in Myrtle Beach South Carolina and I’m sure that in Ca. there is a larger demand. Although it seems like there would also be more cars and with the large population, more dealers. I cannot say if it worked for me because of the way I worded the e-mail or because I may have sent more e-mails to small dealers than someone else. There is no way of knowing. Bye the way, I didn’t mean to mislead you: there was no mention of what I would or would not pay in my e-mails. Simply that I was going to purchase the Model, color and options stated.

Are there only 15 dealers within 150 or 200 miles? One of the things that you are trying to exploit is the competition between big city dealers and little podunk town dealers. Small remote dealers love to steel customers from under the noses of the big dealers. In fact if I lived right next door to a big dealer, I would exploit that also. In this case I did purchase from a Toyota dealer in a little bitty town about 1 hour from a big city. But that is not always the case.

One last thing, remember that this is like a Resume, the less you say the better off you are. If they know all there is to know up front, it doesn’t let their curiosity get the best of them. They need to want to steel your business from there competitors.

Have you really had 1741 Posts since October 05? That’s between 4 and 5 posts a day, when do you have time to drive your car?

John

 

Must have flunked math!!!