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wintersun
Dec 14, 2014Explorer II
MSRP is a fiction. Even the dealer's invoice is not an accurate number. Dealers get a kickback or discount from the manufacturers based on the number of units sold during a sales period. They can lose money on a few cars if it puts them into a higher bracket as the discount applies to every car and truck they have sold during that sales period.
When a vehicle is in very short supply I will offer the dealer $1,000 over invoice and 100% of the time they are eager to do the deal. My last truck purchase was in 2011 when I bought a truck a month after the 2015 trucks started to appear. MSRP was over $58,000 and I paid less than $42,000, and I got the dealer to include at no charge a bed liner, chrome side steps, tow mirrors, and a GM diamond plate toolbox.
My neighbor special ordered a 2012 truck with the gas V-8 and he paid more than I did for mine with the diesel engine and he did not get the side steps or other free items.
When a vehicle is in very short supply I will offer the dealer $1,000 over invoice and 100% of the time they are eager to do the deal. My last truck purchase was in 2011 when I bought a truck a month after the 2015 trucks started to appear. MSRP was over $58,000 and I paid less than $42,000, and I got the dealer to include at no charge a bed liner, chrome side steps, tow mirrors, and a GM diamond plate toolbox.
My neighbor special ordered a 2012 truck with the gas V-8 and he paid more than I did for mine with the diesel engine and he did not get the side steps or other free items.
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