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Replying to: alamocity (Jun 03, 2008 11:02 pm) I actually dealt with a crooked Honda salesman last week. He accept my more than fair offer which included, by the way, a built in profit. I faxed him an offer with the numbers broken down including the profit for him. Yes, the offer was slightly below invoice including destination charge, but not by much, about a hundred below However, the offer was well more than I have seen others pay on this forum. Long story short...he accepted the offer via voicemail.and said it was "more than an acceptable offer and very doable". It was an honest and fair offer not intended to "rip off the dealer". Then when I called him back he retracted his acceptance making up some lame excuses about the car being the only color in town as well as some other ridiculous excuses which included "five speed manual transmissions in the 4-door sedans are in demand so he couldn't let it go for that price". I am sure any honda salesman on this forum will concur that this is not true. I have owned three 5 speed manual hondas in my lifetime and I know that dealers do not carry many of them because they are harder to sell in the 4 door sedan trim vs the 2 door coupe trim and harder to sell than any automatic transmission. I also had another dealer (the other one that accepted the same offer) tell me that he will sell 30 automatic sedans before selling one manual sedan. Funny thing is that this place I was dealing with had 4 manual sedans on the lot and they still have all four as of today. This salesman was very young and obviously "wet behing the ears" in experience. I assume he wanted the deal, but his sales manager didn't. I was not falling for those lies and games especially after he accepted the offer. So I told the guy that I wasn't playing games, I made him a fair offer that was also accepted at another dealer in town, and that I didn't appreciate the lies. He copped an attitude. So that ended my business relations with that dealer. It just wasn't worth it the hassle and aggravation. He lost my trust at that point. I called the sales manager and the GM to complain about what had happened and left it at that. There are some reputable dealers out there who will bend over backwards to help you, like the NEW dealer I am working with now...who also gave me a fabulous price (lower than my original offer to the other dealer) which I jumped on promptly. He was even willing to search for the color I wanted and do a dealer transfer. Excellent service! And there are some that deserve to lose customers like the guy above. So you see, it was not me who tried to "squeeze" every nickel out of the dealer, it was the dealer who was trying to play games and fool me into paying more. So to those of you who thought I was being "unfair" and a trying not to allow for a profit, I hope this will clear the air and show otherwise. Good luck Honda shopping!!! 
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Replying to: hhun (Jun 05, 2008 11:09 pm) |
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Replying to: cb007 (Jun 05, 2008 1:38 pm) |
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Hi guys, I just started shopping for my new Honda and wanted to hear your opinion on price quote which I just got from a dealer in Rockville, MD: "Accord EX-L 4cyl Sedan Automatic the price is $22,750.00 plus fees which comes out to be $25,116.10 "out the door". No hidden fees or surprises when you come in." Thanks for your comments.
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Replying to: lance_mcb (Jun 06, 2008 8:46 am) Can you breakdown the addtional fees. The price of $22,750 seems to be excellent
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Replying to: twotonetommy (Jun 06, 2008 8:58 am) that is what he wrote me about LX-P yesterday Accord LX-P --------------------- Vehicle - $19,450.00 Freight - $635.00 Processing fee - $100.00 Tax 6% (MD) - $1,211.10 Tags (MD) - $222.00 -------------------------- Total - $21,618.10 I didnt got break-down for EX-L yet, but i guess it should be close
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i just did the math and it look like this Vehicle $22,750 Freight $635 Processing fee $100 Tax 6% (MD) $1,409 Tags (MD) $222 Total $25,116 |
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Replying to: lance_mcb (Jun 06, 2008 9:03 am) 
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Replying to: parviz (Jun 03, 2008 11:35 pm) Oh yes they would...you have to ask for it! My dad has a dealer friend who says "you can refuse to pay any dealer installed option if you don't want it and didn't ask for it". Those options are marked up at least 100%, so if you decide you want the options, negotiate some. Good luck.
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Replying to: hhun (Jun 06, 2008 9:49 am) I have always found it to be a lot easier to just avoid dealers who add crap-o-la to every car on the lot. It just makes it easier to deal with and no hassles. There are plenty of dealers who only add stuff to the cars at the customer's request. Deal with those and no problems. Dennis
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