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Prices Paid: Buying & Leasing Experiences Lexus IS 250 / IS 350 Prices Paid and Buying Experience
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Replying to: Gamus (Jan 17, 2009 5:00 pm)
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Replying to: aldyt (Jan 18, 2009 9:48 pm) I bought this is the Bay Area in Nothern California. I had been looking for one since November 2008. Couple of things that almost made this purchase impossible: One, very few dealers respond via email or even give quotes. Secondly, I even went through Costco and got 34K plus TTL and last of all even showing up in person to did really nothing to improve the opportunity as they all politely told me to take a hike at 32.5K OTD for just NAV. So at 35Kish for the whole package I guess it did not seem unreasonable and like I said 08 was 35.1K OTD. Here go my tips on buying a Lexus, no expert but this is my short experience with it. If you get a dealership to respond via email, keep the correspondence going regardless of where you are at in the buying process and continue to assure him it is going to happend ( you buying the car) but are hung up on pricing and avail. Keep grinding the price down when you have his attention and hold a "no profit or a loss" price point as they will keep telling you, you arent even close. When he understands you will be buying soon because you are indicating through your emails that you want to close he will get more agressive; at the sametime I went to different delaership to throw out a OTD price to gauge their reaction to see if I was close. I never was close when I went in person. This is when I got fed up with the sales cycle and told the internet guy we are not even close and told him to give me a realistic price that would make me jump into my car and close it today. He gave it and we grinded it down some more, not much but still and then made real agressive phone calls to see where the deal was since some dealership had my contact already. No dealership would touch his price and were holding their ground at 34.5K plus ttl. even though I said I would buy it TODAY. So done deal on my end with the internet guy. Lots of stress as once they throw out a price , they give you til end of day to close-makes you feel you have to close it, but he had done it before and I never jumped. That's what I felt, horrible feeling even though you might say they can do that price anytime. The dealership said they lost money on the deal, but they have to move a set amount of cars a day. So look or try to deal with a large dealership who can take losses in today market to survive and possibly look forward to larger allocations of the IS convertible that is coming out where they can make money on. Non volume dealerships are a joke to deal with as they want to maintain 2007 margins in today's market. Even now, I don't even know if I bought at a good price but it is done and can live with it. |
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new 2008 IS 250 RWD base model in Black $29,191 plus license fees (from car broker). car has the Premium pkg. which includes the heated and ventilated leather seats and floor mats with trunk mat. I am thinking it needs to be around $27,000 since it is a 2008 and once I drive it off the lot, there goes the depreciation! Thoughts? Am I way off base here? |
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Replying to: Gamus (Jan 17, 2009 5:00 pm)
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Replying to: Dirtywater (Jan 20, 2009 11:07 pm) I got the smokey mica granite with the combo interior as I didn't want all black interior. Did you get yours in the Bay Area also? And just curious how did you like the buying experience? And what you thought about the price paid?
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Replying to: Gamus (Jan 24, 2009 12:26 pm)
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Replying to: Dirtywater (Jan 24, 2009 9:13 pm) I'm in the market for a 2008 IS350. Would you know if your SoCal Longo delaer has it? and your internet sales contact? Thanks.
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Replying to: bobetp (Jan 25, 2009 8:54 am) I dealt with Jim Brown, and really liked him. He is a straight shooter, no bs. I hope things go well in your search. |
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Gamus and Dirtywater, Can you please post the exact items you got and what price you paid. It will be helpful to me and others..be sure to mention if it includes taxes and other fees... thanks |
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