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Replying to: lilduke99 (Jun 04, 2005 4:15 am) Many if not most dealers have an internet department. I did all my negotiations through e-mails and a couple of phone calls. I took one trip to a dealer that was 100 miles from my house to pick-up the car that I had already agreed to purchase (subject to a test drive) and had already negotiated the out-the-door price before going to the dealer. I also knew they had 4 cars in the trim and color I wanted (EX-4cyl AT, graphite pear) by looking at their inventory listed on their website. I was in and out of there in about an hour / hour and a half. My strategy was to go to carsdirect.com first and find out prices in different areas I was willing to travel to go get my car. I live in San Diego, CA and very quickly found out that local dealers were selling for $800-$1000 higher than dealers in the Los Angeles area (100 miles). Had I been willing to travel to San Francisco area (450 miles) I would have been able to save an additional $700 on top of this. I contacted dealers in those areas by e-mail and their quotes were similar to the quotes from carsdirect.com. So, I closed the deal with a dealer that was located five minutes from where I was dropping off my old car and saved $1,000 in the process (I ended up buying from Riverside Honda, which is about 100 miles from San Diego). This worked great for me, but I realize some people don't want to drive 100 miles to get their cars. I guess the bottom line is that with the internet one can save a lot of time and effort by getting the information sent directly to the comfort of your house or office (as opposed to physically having to go to dealers to get it). This way, one can find out very quickly the dealers that are willing to give the best prices, and the ones that aren't. The added benefit (to me anyway) is that I did not have to put up with any aggressive salesman and their tactics to confuse you. Perhaps the downside is that it makes the whole car buying experience a little more impersonal. Good luck. |
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Replying to: bluewolf (Jun 04, 2005 10:26 am) It has been a week or so now since i was actually negotiating price with the dealers. Last quote I got for an LX-auto was $17,800, PZEV. Also, the doc fee is $45 and $15 for 1-way-out-pass. Be sure to have your price negotiated with the protection package: gravel guard, trunk tray, and wheel lock. They all pre-install it and will try to hit you for a few hundred at the end of your negoriation. This is normal at Spirit, you just have to stand tall and say, THROW IT IN... So, you should end up at $800-$1,000 saved on your deal, depends what you count the value of the acessories at, if at all. The gravel guard is a must have here in PHX as there are damn stones everywhere, I always here them rattling around in my wheel wells. Also with the financing, be sure to tell them about it upfront, then do all the papers over fax and Fedex as needed. I personally would not wait to do it at the closing. We cant post names of sales-people on here I am pretty sure. But at Spirit there is a very polite and responsive young lady that handled my discussions, her manger then tried to land the protection package sale on me, in the end it was included. I think they are the only 2 in the Internet Dept. You will need to tag it right away when you get back, the CA tag you get only gets a one-way trip, and the trip has to be written out in the documentation before you leave the dealer. I can get you the names of the sales-people I dealt with in email. |
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Replying to: csl1 (Jun 03, 2005 7:08 am) They give you the following info: MSRP Dealer Invoice (not hard to find anywhere else of course) Any current consumer rebates Holdback Dealer incentives (if any are known) And in the end they give you a dealer "wholesale price" that is below invoice prices found on the Internet. I also found their trade in info very useful as it helped me negotiate a good deal for my trade in after one dealer completely low balled me by about $2000. The $12 I spent easily paid for itself when I bought my EX v6 AT. |
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Replying to: mqqb1 (Jun 04, 2005 4:05 pm)
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Replying to: csl1 (Jun 04, 2005 6:00 pm)
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I am ready to seal the deal next weekend. Does anyone know if Honda makes any black Accord EX coupe w/black leather?
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Replying to: ready2buy2 (Jun 04, 2005 7:49 pm)
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Replying to: temj12 (Jun 04, 2005 9:35 pm)
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| I recently bought LX with Tint, Mudgaurds, wheel opening mouldings, stripe, paint and fabric protecant for 18,500 (includes destination charge) before TTL. Did I pay too much? Please let me know | |
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Replying to: k2ji (Jun 04, 2005 10:03 am) |
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