Originally Posted By: MrCritical
Just wondering how the big metro dealer was able to offer over $2k less for the exact same car with less than $2k markup on it.
Not saying it didn't happen, mind you. Was there a trade involved? Metro, small town, it doesn't matter. They all pay the same price for the car.
The place I got it from had every inch of their lot crowded with new vehicles, so I'm guessing they work on volume of sales instead of markup on each sale. There were a LOT of other people around buying new cars when I was buying mine. From what my salesperson told me, they were trying to reach a certain volume of vehicles that month. This was a marked change from the local dealers who had plenty of idle sales staff when I set foot into the door.
Also, my car wasn't on their lot very long. They got it off the truck, did the PDI, then I drove it off the lot 4 days later with 7 miles on the odometer. 2 of those days were me waiting for my vacation day to pick it up. I didn't order it, they happened to have just received it when I was contacting them. I guess it was a set of fortuitous circumstances all around that led to me getting the car for substantially less than anybody around me.