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This site has made for some wonderfull reading. I just got through building an '08 LTD with a couple of options on Edmunds. MSRP w/destination = 36,025. Invoice = 31,705. TMV = 35,943. It is quite obvious that if others in the Tulsa area are actually having to pay within a few dollars of MSRP I will not be buying in the local area. It looks like skydiver 1978 just got a new one for just over invoice in the Chicago area. Right now on ebay a dealership in Hutchison, KS is offering an'08 that has an MSRP (assuming the $660 destination charge is added to the picture posted on the site) of 36,573 for a buy-it-now price of 33,569. Not as good a deal as skydiver's but a whale of a lot better than MSRP. My main concern is if I fly to Chicago or drive to where ever will the local dealership provide the routine maintenance and warranty work on the car? How closely linked are the sales department and the service department or is that a dealership by dealership thing. I read one post from a person in the Atlanta area that said he paid more at a certain dealership because he/she liked their service dapartment more. One last comment - The OTD price for a vehicle doesn't do anything for me. Especially if the local ttl is not broken out to see what the car cost BEFORE all the extra stuff. It is very simple for me (and I like to keep things simple) to devide what was paid for the car by what the MSRP was to get a percentage of the MSRP paid. Skydiver paid about 88% of the MSRP. The one on ebay is about 92% of MSRP. Others on this site have run 88% to in the 90's. Once again, this site has been great reading and I will continue checking out the latest and greatest deals. |
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Replying to: musgrove (Oct 22, 2007 10:24 pm)
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Replying to: musgrove (Oct 22, 2007 10:24 pm) It appears that 10% off Toyota MSRP is the minimum you should get on a Limited. More is possible. And don't count the minor "dealer added" stuff on any additional window sticker - extra wax, polish, stain treatment, even pinstipes - should all be ignored. As always, the service department is more important than the sales dept at any local dealership. You see service all the time, sales only once... unless they want to sell you a newer model. Good luck! 
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Replying to: tjc78 (Oct 23, 2007 4:40 am)
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Replying to: bigmike2 (Aug 26, 2007 9:23 am) Mfr. SRP $35,350 (incl destin. & color) Options $1,468 Total Sticker $36,818 Paid $32,918 + TT&L, no trade-in. Also, purchased the 7 yr/75K mile warranty (zero deductible) for $985. |
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Replying to: baglf (Oct 25, 2007 8:57 pm) |
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Today I got a toyata avalon xl for 2008 for $26,746. I wonder if I have paid too much. The good thing is that I did not drive it out of the lot. So I have chance to change the deal. So now if the price is too high. If so, can I cancell it. IF I do, can I get charged for the cancelled deal. Please help me, I really get nervous and very upset. |
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Replying to: zebra5 (Oct 27, 2007 8:10 pm) A Dallas dealer told me this afternoon that his invoice price on a 2008 Avalon with NO OPTIONS AT ALL is $31,499 and destination charge is $715. So he tells me his total cost is $32,214. He's offering to sell to me for 2% over this, which is $32,858. So you paid $60 more than I'm being offered, and you got $1,500 of options! I need to call your dealer. (By the way, the guy I'm talking with told me to shop around to--his words--keep him honest. So I'll take him up on that. Is the invoice price he's quoting honest?) |
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Replying to: pcomeaux (Dec 04, 2007 4:11 pm)
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Replying to: pcomeaux (Dec 04, 2007 4:11 pm) Their offer to you may not be that far off what I paid. Judge for yourself what you'd pay for these $1468 of options: Distributor (Gulf States Toyota) Custom tape stripe $99 Mud guards $125 Carpet mat set $199 Color keyed door edge guards $99 Vehicle Shield Package $349 Dealer Wheel locks $99 Window tint $199 Moon roof wind deflector $299 Total $1468 Clearly, most of this is fluff, and the extortion tax you pay for dealing with the Gulf States Cartel. The sales mgr. claimed that the price I paid ($32,918 incl destination) represented his invoice price from GST. Edmunds quotes invoice at much less than that (no TDA or other nonsense, and no cost data on most of the above options); I found it to provide little use to me in my shopping experience. I bought this model from this dealer in part because it was the least over-loaded '08 Avalon Limited I could find in stock at the six or seven DFW dealers I shopped. The dealer experience was nice enough. What I really wish is that more Avalon owners in Texas would post their prices paid and buying experiences on this forum. GST greatly detracts from the potential transparency of the sale process in its region. And as I have suggested in previous posts, this particular forum greatly suffers from lack of participation. Perhaps the majority of Avalon owners are too comfortable to worry about things like whether they pay a fair price, or too technology-challenged to contribute their insights in an on-line forum such as this. PS - Thomas Friedkin, founder of Gulf States Toyota, recently made the Forbes 400 Richest Americans, with a net worth of $1.2 billion. Some of that used to belong to me.
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