file.newsgroup.cars.103801 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Mark Monninger)
Subject: Re: Car buying story, was: Christ, another dealer service scam...
In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] (Dan Day) writes:
> In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] writes:
> >
> >before you go in. Find out the invoice prices of the car, add a
reasonable
> >profit for the dealer ($200-$300??), offer them that price and stick to
> >it.
>
> Whoa! Watch your terminology. "Dealer invoice" is *not* "dealer cost".
> ...
That's probably true but it's the closest to it that you're going to get.
The actual dealer cost depends on a lot of things and even the dealer
probably doesn't know exactly what it will be until all the factory
kick-backs, incentives, etc. are paid and that often depends on his volume
at the end of the month/quarter/whatever. It might be a funny munber but
it's all you have to start with, except the sticker, and anyone who pays
sticker price is really being ripped off.
Mark