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What is the current MF and RV for 06 Limited, 36 months and 12/15,000 miles? Thanks.
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Replying to: corrad (Mar 13, 2006 11:09 am) |
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Replying to: corrad (Mar 13, 2006 11:09 am) Car_man Host Smart Shopper / Prices Paid Forums |
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I've just picked up my 2k6 Avalon XL that was leased 3 years, 45k, w/ just a few extras, w/ 2k total down I netted out a $404 per month lease.(Upstate, Central NY) Is that good?...well, to be truthful, don't think it's any "Bargin"...Although I like the car, I found the whole lease-deal-negotiation to be basically very 1 sided...although I involved 4 dealers, the bottom line for all dealers was basically $5 per month on the lease payment and a nickle here or a nickle there on the "extras"...Basically, I think Toyota dealers basically(but politely) just tell you, "This is the lease payment, if you want the car...this is what your gonna pay" Before I did the deal, I heard every salesman cliche' in the book "What do we have to do to earn your business?" "We're very aggressive this time of month" "I'm gonna go to work for you" Yeah...right... When the pen hit the paper those turned into: "hey...we're only making $151 dollars profit on this deal" What a load of bunk...what do these guys think we/I are..fools?...No business stays open selling a 30k product for only $151 profit, but you know..they sit there w/ a straight face and proclaim this as fact... finally, I just looked at dealer # 3 and said "Alright..enough BS about your profit margin, why don't you just acknowledge you have a 3k hold-back and stop trying to think I'm a fool"... That dealer/salesperson was shocked 2 days later when he caught me on the phone and I told him I had leased the car at dealer #4...I just told him, "remember Bob (not his real name) I told you what I wanted to pay, I told you I wasn't believing the BS about the profit margin....Remember?...I told you, THAT WAS YOUR CHANCE to "make your deal"...You didn't do it...Bob...so...have a nice day..." I realize this may seem a bit angry, but having Leased, Honda's, Chrysler's, Pontiacs and Suburu's all in the past 12 years, I'd never felt as little "play" in a car deal as I got w/ this one. What I got was a good car....what I got was the "Toyota Salesperson handbook" read back chapter and verse 4x over. If I didn't like the car so much I woulda gave up on Toyota after dealer 2, but the damn quality of the car kept sucking me back in. In the end I'm pleased w/ my car, just in the future I hope Toyota adds a few pages to the salesmans handbook of negotiation so at least I can having a FEELING that I made a deal....Instead I just bought a car. |
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Replying to: kyfdx (Mar 13, 2006 3:57 am) |
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Replying to: fadil (Jun 07, 2006 1:13 pm) Looks like a good car to buy but not lease. Please tell me what I'm missing. I'm also going through these numbers today.
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Replying to: fadil (Jun 07, 2006 1:13 pm) The reply above correctly notes the $400. charge and the 6.6% effective interest rate as questionable. The residual value, some 54% of MSRP, is probably OK. Check your area for lower interest rates on the lease and try to drop the $400. fee. How much do you want the car? Are there others or is this it? Good luck.... 
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Carman, Can you provide the latest lease rate and money factors for the Avalon? Thanks, Bob
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Replying to: fadil (Jun 07, 2006 1:13 pm) Car_man Host Prices Paid Forums |
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