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Help, Im trying to find the answer to this question..toyota clearly states that the delivery charges are figured into their MSRP however I just purchased a new prius and there is a delivery processing and handling fee from a Gulf states Toyota of 715 the same price that Toyota quotes as being in their price already..and my options were all installed at the distributor not the manufacture..I did not realize this until I was reading on edmounds..these are not delaer charges they are distributor charges..Whats up with the double pricing? or is this customary.
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Replying to: fezo (Jun 02, 2008 6:59 am) I don’t mind the tune that much either, it’s just that I can’t hear the other voices in my head over the music. 
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Replying to: jkinzel (Jun 02, 2008 7:30 am) Now THAT I can relate to! |
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Replying to: hairgal (Jun 02, 2008 7:19 am) Unforrtunately on Prius they pretty much can charge whatever they want - and call it whatever they want. The only thing it achieves is that "price" is put in front so stupid customer thinks they pay X and "fee" in the back and sneaked in at signing, at which point stupid customer is too committed to walk out. Firm OTD is pretty much the only way to combat that. I'm, still in owe that Toyota allows them do it. Seems like they have such a strangle hold on the distribution (an ironclad 100-year contract or something like that) that there is nothing we can do short of buying something else or going 1000 miles to buy from other distributors. |
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Replying to: hairgal (Jun 02, 2008 7:19 am) ..Whats up with the double pricing? or is this customary. I’m not sure that you are going to like the answer but we’ve learned right here that this is your “reward” for buying a Toyota in the SET area (Southeastern Toyota). As a new owner of one of these prized machines you'll have to tell us (yay or nay), if this "premium cost" is worth owning a Toyota in this area. I have said all along that if I lived in the SET area I’d fall in love with another brand unless everyone else’s price is the same for the equivalent machine but that’s just me stating my opinion and everyone here knows what that is worth. jmonroe
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Replying to: jmonroe (Jun 02, 2008 8:05 am)
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Replying to: jmonroe (Jun 02, 2008 8:05 am)
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Replying to: bigbutr (Jun 02, 2008 10:53 am) Either your hot pants for a Toyota weren’t as hot as the salesman thought or you weren’t listening as intently as the salesman does when he points out the benefit/quietness of the undercoating as he does to other buyers or BOTH. I ended up going with an 08 Accord LX-P since I got a better price with more options as opposed to the LE Camry they wanted to sell me. You may have started a feud between ‘isell’ and ‘mack’ about this decision and the value of it. But, since it was your money, you oughta know.  jmonroe
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Replying to: jmonroe (Jun 02, 2008 8:05 am)
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