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Originally Posted by sterlingnotes
That doesn't even make any sense to me. There are mark-up's on new vehicles because people want the new model and are willing to pay for it if they don't want to wait for the market to stabilize. And the "shady" dealerships aren't the ones selling for supplier prices, they are the ones marking up the cars. I agree that it really sucks for the salesman to sell a car for next to nothing in profit, but it's still a sale and money in their pocket.
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the shady dealerships are the ones trying to sell the car at above MSRP... here's an example: in 2001, I went down to buy a 2002 WS6 TA from South Point Pontiac in Austin, TX... they had a $5995 "market adjustment" added onto the window sticker in a modification slip... they also had "paint sealer" and "window etching" on that same modification slip, even though both of those were on the actual window sticker of the car... the same sticker that GM gives them to put on the car... when asked what the "market adjustment" was, the salesman told me that they had added paint sealer to the car... when I pointed out that that was also on the modification sticker, he tried to tell me that it was for the window etching... again, I pointed out that that was both on the MSRP window sticker as well as the modification sticker... after being proved wrong twice, the guy then tells me that its just on there so that they can sell the car at a fair market price... needles to say, I said, "but I have GM supplier discount" and he told me that they would not honor that and that
nobody in the Austin car market would honor that on any 2002 f-body... after I bought my 2002 Z28 less than a month later for $500 less than "supplier discount" price, by using my GM supplier discount paperwork and combining that with a GM customer loyalty discount, I went back to South Point and told the salesman and his sales manager that they were both morons.
dealerships adding
anything other than shipping or modification charges to a pre-tax car's price is called "gouging" and it should be illegal... if you dont want to sell the car for less than MSRP, then tell your customers that service after the sell will set you apart from the rest (and there are salesmen and dealerships that will deliver on this promise) and that the money they pay to get the MSRP will be returned ten times over in loyalty to that customer... if you are trying to sell the car above MSRP, then you are a shifty salesman and you're guilty of trying to screw over the consumer... period. end of discussion.