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I'm sure others have received better deals, but I wanted to pass along a nice buying experience. After studying Edmunds, I decided to make inquiries through internet sales departments, rather than going to the lot directly. I live in the Minneapolis area. I received many replies, about half were actual price quotes, the rest were an invite to call or visit the lot. I'd been pretty specific about the vehicle and options I wanted, so there would be no reason not to just give me a price. One dealership, Walser in Hopkins touted it's no-negotiation "we just give you the lowest price" way of prices. After talking with some other dealerships and comparing what they actually could get in stock, Walser did, in fact, turn out to have the lowest price on the vehicle with options I wanted. The internet sale manager did not try to sell me options I didn't want, or talk me into a higher priced vehicle. He treated me with respect, and did not say anything dumb like "you really look good in that car". (Being female, that has happened in the past, to which I reply, I really don't care how I look in the car, I care about the car). I decided to buy the vehicle at a bit more than $6000 below MSRP. It was a few hundred below what Edmunds TMV pricing was for the Pacifica with the options I wanted. They played no games with my trade-in... their appraiser looked it over while I was test driving the new car. The price they offered was a few hundred above what Edmunds site estimated, and about what I thought a dealership would offer me based on Kelly Blue Book and condition of the car. They explained their offer, and what they would be doing to my trade in to sell it. Everything they said was exactly what I would have done to the car had I kept it. Their offer was separate from the deal on the new Pacifica. That is, even if I didn't buy the new car, they would write me a check and buy my old car if I wanted to sell it to them. The finance manager was cordial, no pressure. I asked him about extended warranty. (I brought it up.. not him. I've had horrible experiences with guys practically trying to bully me into buying the extended warranty). He gave the price, a brochure, and said I could purchase it now, if I wanted, or anytime within the 3 yr regular warranty time frame. I apologize for the lengthy posting, but this was the most no pressure, pleasant car buying experience I've ever had. The internet salesperson (I know I'm not supposed to mention names) and the finance person were professional, straightforward and a pleasure to deal with. I was expecting this to be an ordeal, and it was great. If my experience with the car and servicing is just as great, I'll be one happy camper! |
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We recently went to Carmax in Atlanta (about 7 hours from us) to purchase our '04 Pacifica in midnight blue with the following: 17" Chrome Clad Aluminum Alloy Wheels Navigation System w/GPS Power Glass Sunroof Rear Seat Video System Leather Seats Infinity Intermezzo Surround Sound System 6-Disc In-Dash CD/DVD Player Heated Seats Group Power Liftgate Quick Order Package MSRP of $38,410 ... our price was $30,569 (with $3k rebate). We shopped at local dealerships for weeks, and ended up completely frustrated at the time we wasted there. We sold our van at a used Carmax dealership near our hometown, flew to Atlanta the next morning, signed the papers and drove our new car home. It was a breeze. When I told the local dealers about the deal we were going to get, they practically made fun of me for believing it ... they said it was too good to be true. I'm so tempted to drive my new car into one of their lots along with my buyers invoice just to show them! Does anyone else have a Carmax buying experience? |
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| just show your dealholes the CarMax website. | |
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Looking at AWD Pacifica. This Pacifica has leather seats, power moonroof, power liftgate, Infinity Intermezzo sound system, 6 disc cd changer and chrome, alloy wheels. This was the owners demo and should have about 4-5,000 miles on it. List is $37,310, invoice is $34,586 and dealership's first offeris $29,995 after rebate, plus taxes and fees. |
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| The offer looks high. Seeing that most new awd pacs are selling for about 7k atleast under msrp with rebate and his car has 5k miles already on it. I would say you should look for around 27500 would be a good deal, might get them lower. | |
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As I see it now you can get $4000 cash or $1000 and 0% financing. Didn't it use to $2000 plus 0% financing? So now it is worse than is was before? Hmm! |
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I bought my Pacifica at the end of April and I was able to choose from $3000 cash OR 0% OR $2000 and 0.9%. I don't think they ever offered $2000 plus 0%. But 0.9% sure isn't bad!
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Replying to: hillfla (May 12, 2004 11:50 am) |
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We were in the market for a Honda Pilot, and decided we just couldn't plunk down $30K for a new car right now. Just when I'd given up hope of getting a good vehicle, I bought a Midnight Blue Pacifica - but there's a story behind it... I found a New, 2004 Pacifica in Michigan with 326 miles on it. However, it'd been dinged in the passenger's front (broke the headlight, bumper, and fender). Turns out, someone got into a fender-bender WHILE TEST DRIVING the car! Since the car dealership realized they couldn't sell it as a "new" car anymore, they explained it to the insurance company, which totalled it, and sold it for salvage. This car still had the window sticker in the window ("R" package with the MSRP of $31,230). It still had the tab on the glove box ("Your manuals are in here!"). The price? $12,600.00 I have to get it fixed, but the parts actually aren't that bad (except the healight assembly), and I've got friends who do body work. I figure, after it's all fixed and painted, I'll have about $16K or $17K in it. I'm so excited I can't sleep - I test drove one at the local dealership (it had 343 miles on it...haha), and just loved it. It's technically going to be my wife's car, but I can see us taking LOTS of road trips in it (since she likes for me to drive when we're together, and being a control freak, so do I...LOL). I know that, since the car will technically have a salvage title, I get no warranty on it - that's the only part that sucks for me. The TSB's and Recalls still have to be fixed by the dealer, and I'll just have to put aside what I saved doing it this way to cover any unexpected mechanical breakdowns.
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