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Why everything's expensive in Dallas area?

Discussion in 'Dealers & Pricing' started by krytron, Feb 22, 2011.

  1. krytron

    krytron Junior Member

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    I am thinking about buying Prius II.

    Here in Dallas area, every dealer I talked to wouldn't sell Prius at Edmund's TMV price or average price at Truecar.com :(

    For 2011 Prius Two, the lowest price I was quoted was around $23500 (this is actually Truecar's target price for my zip code) with $25400 OTD. This is blizzard pearl though. And also pretty much all Prius come with too many options so it's very difficult to find one with minimal (hopefully none) options.

    What I found from truecar.com is other states (e.g. Mass or Cali), the target price goes down by $1500-2000. I wonder why Texan dealers are selling these cars very expensively. I found the same thing for other makes like Hyundai...
     
    #1 krytron, Feb 22, 2011
  2. spiderman

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    Sorry to hear about that. Guess it has something to do with the hat size? ;)
     
    #2 spiderman, Feb 23, 2011
  3. frodoz737

    frodoz737 Top Wrench

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    Go to Pat Lobb Toyota of McKinney and ask for Randy O'Connel in Fleet. Tell him the guy with the Blue Prius from Southwest sent you. He is a straight shooter and "will" do you right.
     
    #3 frodoz737, Feb 23, 2011
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  4. krelborne

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    Have you considered getting the 2010? It looks like your area offers 0% financing or $1000 off 2010s, and it looks like Toyota of Rockwall has a bunch of no-frills ones in stock or available in various colors. Even if you took the Prius II price off of their website and took $1000 off, you could still beat $23,500. Of course, you shouldn't do that, because you should be able to argue for a much better price than that.
     
    #4 krelborne, Feb 23, 2011
  5. ItsNotAboutTheMoney

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    Have you looked out-of-state? It wouldn't cost you that much to drive back. ;)
     
    #5 ItsNotAboutTheMoney, Feb 23, 2011
  6. JimN

    JimN Let the games begin!

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    Some of it is the region. South East & Gulf States Toyota regions are notorious for additional markups & Port Installed Options. AAA members can use their buying program.
     
    #6 JimN, Feb 24, 2011
  7. GBC_Texas_Prius

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    I hear you. I really blasted Toyota of Dallas on the follow up Toyota customer satisfaction survey. Okay, I agreed to pay the price, but they could have at least given me good service instead of lying to me about delivery. Over and over they would tell me what I wanted to hear and then give me a story about how the delivery was being pushed out.

    Love the car, hated the experience of buying a Toyota in the Dallas area.

    Like the idea of next time going out of state. Always like a road trip.
     
    #7 GBC_Texas_Prius, Feb 24, 2011
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