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528 messages, Last post on Jul 28, 2008 at 7:29 AM
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| I just purchased a 2008 HCH at list price ($23,235) from Manly Honda, Santa Rosa, CA. This is the best price I could find in the Bay Area. | |
I purchased a 2008 Silver HCH w/Nav for $23,350 at Anderson Honda in Palo Alto. This was the lowest price I could find in the south bay area. They had 6 or 7 on the lot at that time. So far getting 41+ miles MPG and it's raising as I put more miles on.
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| As I write this, I have a customer on a plane from Sacramento to buy my white NAVI Hybrid. She arrives in two hours. | |
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Can anyone tell me their experience buying 2008 HCH's in South Florida. I seemed to contact all dealers in the area and they didn't seem to budge from full retail and basically giving me next to nothing for my trade in. I see the prices in Edmunds being lower and here in the forums people seem to be paying less than full sticker in other parts of the country. What gives? Are Edmunds prices incorrect or delayed? Or are these dealers just playing me along? I got very frustrated and disappointed with the process so I put my plans to buy a HCH on hold. It is even worse with the Prius. |
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Alarti, pardon my web speak, but them's the breaks. As you can tell from the recent posts (last month), the HCH and Prius generally cannot be found for less than list . . . in fact, at least in the San Francisco Bay Area, they are going for $1000-$5000 above list . . . most dealers can't keep them in stock. I am surprised that a recent poster stated that s/he bought the HCH with Navigation for $23,350, as this is $1000+ below list - maybe it really didn't have the Nav? Please note that, from what I can tell, this demand has been relatively recent. A co-worker bought the same car (different color) for less than list 2 months ago - the same dealer now charges $1000 over list. |
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Replying to: alarti (Jun 19, 2008 11:34 am) When gas was 3.50 a gallon, nobody seemed to care but once it went past the 4.00 mark, people went nuts. Giving you next to nothing for your trade? What is it? We can't get anybody to buy cars and SUV's that use a lot of gas to take them. They are already choked with them. As an example, about six weeks ago (before things really went nuts) we had a customer leave because she didn't like what we offered her as a trade in on her Cadillac Escalade. We were going to give her what the local Cadillac dealer was going to give us...not a car we wanted to keep. So, she returned last week wanting to do the same deal. The Cadillac dealer lowered his buy bid by SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS, and he really didn't want it for that price! She left again, shaking her head.
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Replying to: roger1655 (Jun 18, 2008 6:35 am) |
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Replying to: isellhondas (Jun 19, 2008 2:10 pm) That just about says it all. When even the dealers are amazed, you know the market's going crazy. When the entire state of WA has one Civic Hybrid, and Escalades are losing $1,000 per week in value, you know the entire country is changing. I bought a Civic Hybrid in early 2007, when gas dropped back below $3 per gallon. Couldn't find one in 2006 when it was over $3. But I got the car for slightly below MSRP -- $22,912 after TT&L or "out the door" as some people say. After I joined the Edmund's forum, I read about people paying invoice prices for hybrids, and I remember regretting that I paid so much for mine. But not anymore. I'm curious about current prices for trade-ins on hybrids. Maybe "isellhondas" could share some stories about what dealers are willing to pay for '06 and '07 HCHs and Priuses. I'm sure that very few people are willing to trade them these days, but there must be some.
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Replying to: 1stpik (Jun 23, 2008 5:10 am) We just had a customer who was moving out of the country sell us his Insight. We couldn't hardly give them away when we were selling them new but this one sold the next day after, literally dozens of calls from people all over the US. It's nuts and I'm not enjoying this. |
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| Just closed the deal tonight on our 2008 Magnetic Pearl Honda Civic Hybrid. Purchased at Randy Kuehl Honda for $22,400. Secured the deal way back in early May. At closing today they said I am extremely lucky to have gotten such a good deal. Salesman stated they are only doing MSRP or higher now as demand has skyrocketed in the past month. I'm sure glad I secured the deal when I did. Had to wait a month and a half for the car but finally got it straight in from Japan with only 4 miles. I think I paid a bit much for the extended warranty but it is cancellable up to 60 days so I will likely cancel this one and go for the www.bernardiwarranty.com deal. I can't wait to see how this car performs in the long run. Good luck to the rest of you hunting for a good deal! | |
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