No house, but a new car

[waterboy]

$14,475 isn’t bad as that is lower than the $14,795 they had advertised in last weekends paper for MSRP of $18,314.

Did you email all the internet/fleet managers in the San Diego area to see if any will give you the $13,850 price? If they won’t do it now I bet you could check with them at end of month and they would.

[Coronita]

[quote=as]Flu, Do you know some dealers in LA? I will give them a call and see their offer.
What is the reasonable price I should accept as my bottom line? 14k+tax and doc fees?
I’ve talked to a couple of dealers on the phone in SD. Boy, they are as cunning as fox, as slippery as eels. I hate to deal with them.[/quote]

I don’t know them personally.

SouthBayToyota has had good deals, but they are kinda slimy

TorranceToyota has pretty good reps, but you have to haggle.

I think you need to modify your approach. You’re doing too much calling and not enough emailling.

Go to edmunds.com,and enter a zip for LA 90501 (torrance for example). Price out your options and notice the invoice price (don’t include the destination charges)

As part of edumnds, you can request quotes from dealers. Do that for all available dealers in LA.
Repeat the same thing for vehix.com and carsdirect.com

Provide an email address (actually ,create a brand new gmail/yahoo email address for this purpose, and use your initials or some cute name (not your real name)). Give them your phone number, but leave explicit instructions to contact you by email.

When dealers start emailing you, ask them for the best OTD price (saying you’re from SD with a sales tax 7.75 and am willing to go to la to pick up the car if it’s priced well) and ask them to itemize the cost of the car. Make sure you are polite. Kiss the dealers butt….Make sure you say things in your email like “you’d prefer to buy from that dealer, because friend XYZ had lots of good things to say about that dealer, and value your friend’s advice” Or that, you’ve read on the internet great sales and service from the dealership, give some sap story about how rude another dealer was. Or that some car enthusiast forum highly recommended your dealership and you wanted to try to deal with them. Or that friend “John” bought a car from them in the past and was happy with the purchase. Never cave and name them your price….Let the offers flow in.

Ignore dealers that call initially.

If a dealers emails back tells you to call them for the best price, politely reply and state a plausible excuse like (you’re in a meeting right now, can you please just send me your best price so I can review)…If they really insist of you calling back, just put those dealers on the back burners (until you get other prices from other dealers).

Once you start getting some named prices, you can see where prices start to fall. Play one dealer off of the other, by lowering each dealers price by $200. Some comments

(1) Never try to play one dealer off of two or more dealers at the same time.Often times, a dealer that feels they are in competition with two or more simulataneously just end up dropping out early and say “well, good luck with those two”

(2) While it’s fine to name drop other dealer, never name the actual salesperson,contact information etc.

(3) Do your best negotation for the first dealer as low as you go. Get the price in the email. (OTD price and list all the pricing). 2-3 email exchanges.

(4) Move on to the dealer you were playing off of the first one, and get the price as low as you can go. 2-3 email exchanges.

Once you have deals from about 3 dealers. Email them back and say, you’ll think about it.

(5) Move on to the dealers that emailed you to call them back. Email them back and say, you’re seeing $$xxx-200 from dealer X, can you provide a better price? I’m from SD blah blah blah. Make sure you extend that nice brown nosing you did before. “You know the pricing is really good at dealer X, but i’ve heard so many good things about your dealership from my friends. Is there anything possibility you can do to about this?…..”

(6) Call back the dealers that called but never emailed you. And tell them you’re interested in purchasing an LE, you’ve gotten an offer from dealer X, and brown nose again (“i’ve heard such great things about ….”)….Just tell them to give them their email address because you want to email the price quote from dealer X. Once you get the saleguy’s email address, you’re good to haggle via email as before.

Closing…

*Get more than 1 dealer to agree to the same price

*Get the final OTD price and list the price breakdown in email

*Request to get the specific VIN number for the car and say you will go there to pick it up on the weekend.

*Arrange the appointment on the same day for the dealer. Dealer 1 in the morning, Dealer 2 in the early afternoon, Dealer 3 in the late afternoon. Deelar 4 in the early evening.

*Bring all email showing quoted prices for each dealer, bring all your documents, etc.

*Don’t put down a security deposit. For high volume cars, it’s completely unnecessary.

*Show up at dealer 1.

Don’t even think about changing the options or renegotating things at that point. Verify the VIN for the car being sold. Test drive the car. Verify the car is ok. Say no to all the add on options, extended warranties, etc. Sign and drive off.

If there is any problems with dealer1, walk out. (make sure you you file a complaint with BBB). Go to dealer 2. And repeat. If there are problems with dealers #2, go over to dealer 3.

If you do close on a car, call back dealers 2,3,4 and tell them you are having car troubles, and need to reschedule because you’re going to be out of town next week. Throw away that temporary email address and never call them bac.

This process is like trying to get dates with 4 people at the same day at the same time via flattery, and then dumping all but one of them at the end of the day, and making sure the rest can’t reach you afterwards.

Good luck

[Coronita]

[quote=as]Flu, Do you know some dealers in LA? I will give them a call and see their offer.
What is the reasonable price I should accept as my bottom line? 14k+tax and doc fees?
I’ve talked to a couple of dealers on the phone in SD. Boy, they are as cunning as fox, as slippery as eels. I hate to deal with them.[/quote]

I don’t know them personally.

SouthBayToyota has had good deals, but they are kinda slimy

TorranceToyota has pretty good reps, but you have to haggle.

I think you need to modify your approach. You’re doing too much calling and not enough emailling.

Go to edmunds.com,and enter a zip for LA 90501 (torrance for example). Price out your options and notice the invoice price (don’t include the destination charges)

As part of edumnds, you can request quotes from dealers. Do that for all available dealers in LA.
Repeat the same thing for vehix.com and carsdirect.com

Provide an email address (actually ,create a brand new gmail/yahoo email address for this purpose, and use your initials or some cute name (not your real name)). Give them your phone number, but leave explicit instructions to contact you by email.

When dealers start emailing you, ask them for the best OTD price (saying you’re from SD with a sales tax 7.75 and am willing to go to la to pick up the car if it’s priced well) and ask them to itemize the cost of the car. Make sure you are polite. Kiss the dealers butt….Make sure you say things in your email like “you’d prefer to buy from that dealer, because friend XYZ had lots of good things to say about that dealer, and value your friend’s advice” Or that, you’ve read on the internet great sales and service from the dealership, give some sap story about how rude another dealer was. Or that some car enthusiast forum highly recommended your dealership and you wanted to try to deal with them. Or that friend “John” bought a car from them in the past and was happy with the purchase. Never cave and name them your price….Let the offers flow in.

Ignore dealers that call initially.

If a dealers emails back tells you to call them for the best price, politely reply and state a plausible excuse like (you’re in a meeting right now, can you please just send me your best price so I can review)…If they really insist of you calling back, just put those dealers on the back burners (until you get other prices from other dealers).

Once you start getting some named prices, you can see where prices start to fall. Play one dealer off of the other, by lowering each dealers price by $200. Some comments

(1) Never try to play one dealer off of two or more dealers at the same time.Often times, a dealer that feels they are in competition with two or more simulataneously just end up dropping out early and say “well, good luck with those two”

(2) While it’s fine to name drop other dealer, never name the actual salesperson,contact information etc.

(3) Do your best negotation for the first dealer as low as you go. Get the price in the email. (OTD price and list all the pricing). 2-3 email exchanges.

(4) Move on to the dealer you were playing off of the first one, and get the price as low as you can go. 2-3 email exchanges.

Once you have deals from about 3 dealers. Email them back and say, you’ll think about it.

(5) Move on to the dealers that emailed you to call them back. Email them back and say, you’re seeing $$xxx-200 from dealer X, can you provide a better price? I’m from SD blah blah blah. Make sure you extend that nice brown nosing you did before. “You know the pricing is really good at dealer X, but i’ve heard so many good things about your dealership from my friends. Is there anything possibility you can do to about this?…..”

(6) Call back the dealers that called but never emailed you. And tell them you’re interested in purchasing an LE, you’ve gotten an offer from dealer X, and brown nose again (“i’ve heard such great things about ….”)….Just tell them to give them their email address because you want to email the price quote from dealer X. Once you get the saleguy’s email address, you’re good to haggle via email as before.

Closing…

*Get more than 1 dealer to agree to the same price

*Get the final OTD price and list the price breakdown in email

*Request to get the specific VIN number for the car and say you will go there to pick it up on the weekend.

*Arrange the appointment on the same day for the dealer. Dealer 1 in the morning, Dealer 2 in the early afternoon, Dealer 3 in the late afternoon. Deelar 4 in the early evening.

*Bring all email showing quoted prices for each dealer, bring all your documents, etc.

*Don’t put down a security deposit. For high volume cars, it’s completely unnecessary.

*Show up at dealer 1.

Don’t even think about changing the options or renegotating things at that point. Verify the VIN for the car being sold. Test drive the car. Verify the car is ok. Say no to all the add on options, extended warranties, etc. Sign and drive off.

If there is any problems with dealer1, walk out. (make sure you you file a complaint with BBB). Go to dealer 2. And repeat. If there are problems with dealers #2, go over to dealer 3.

If you do close on a car, call back dealers 2,3,4 and tell them you are having car troubles, and need to reschedule because you’re going to be out of town next week. Throw away that temporary email address and never call them bac.

This process is like trying to get dates with 4 people at the same day at the same time via flattery, and then dumping all but one of them at the end of the day, and making sure the rest can’t reach you afterwards.

Good luck

[Coronita]

[quote=as]Flu, Do you know some dealers in LA? I will give them a call and see their offer.
What is the reasonable price I should accept as my bottom line? 14k+tax and doc fees?
I’ve talked to a couple of dealers on the phone in SD. Boy, they are as cunning as fox, as slippery as eels. I hate to deal with them.[/quote]

I don’t know them personally.

SouthBayToyota has had good deals, but they are kinda slimy

TorranceToyota has pretty good reps, but you have to haggle.

I think you need to modify your approach. You’re doing too much calling and not enough emailling.

Go to edmunds.com,and enter a zip for LA 90501 (torrance for example). Price out your options and notice the invoice price (don’t include the destination charges)

As part of edumnds, you can request quotes from dealers. Do that for all available dealers in LA.
Repeat the same thing for vehix.com and carsdirect.com

Provide an email address (actually ,create a brand new gmail/yahoo email address for this purpose, and use your initials or some cute name (not your real name)). Give them your phone number, but leave explicit instructions to contact you by email.

When dealers start emailing you, ask them for the best OTD price (saying you’re from SD with a sales tax 7.75 and am willing to go to la to pick up the car if it’s priced well) and ask them to itemize the cost of the car. Make sure you are polite. Kiss the dealers butt….Make sure you say things in your email like “you’d prefer to buy from that dealer, because friend XYZ had lots of good things to say about that dealer, and value your friend’s advice” Or that, you’ve read on the internet great sales and service from the dealership, give some sap story about how rude another dealer was. Or that some car enthusiast forum highly recommended your dealership and you wanted to try to deal with them. Or that friend “John” bought a car from them in the past and was happy with the purchase. Never cave and name them your price….Let the offers flow in.

Ignore dealers that call initially.

If a dealers emails back tells you to call them for the best price, politely reply and state a plausible excuse like (you’re in a meeting right now, can you please just send me your best price so I can review)…If they really insist of you calling back, just put those dealers on the back burners (until you get other prices from other dealers).

Once you start getting some named prices, you can see where prices start to fall. Play one dealer off of the other, by lowering each dealers price by $200. Some comments

(1) Never try to play one dealer off of two or more dealers at the same time.Often times, a dealer that feels they are in competition with two or more simulataneously just end up dropping out early and say “well, good luck with those two”

(2) While it’s fine to name drop other dealer, never name the actual salesperson,contact information etc.

(3) Do your best negotation for the first dealer as low as you go. Get the price in the email. (OTD price and list all the pricing). 2-3 email exchanges.

(4) Move on to the dealer you were playing off of the first one, and get the price as low as you can go. 2-3 email exchanges.

Once you have deals from about 3 dealers. Email them back and say, you’ll think about it.

(5) Move on to the dealers that emailed you to call them back. Email them back and say, you’re seeing $$xxx-200 from dealer X, can you provide a better price? I’m from SD blah blah blah. Make sure you extend that nice brown nosing you did before. “You know the pricing is really good at dealer X, but i’ve heard so many good things about your dealership from my friends. Is there anything possibility you can do to about this?…..”

(6) Call back the dealers that called but never emailed you. And tell them you’re interested in purchasing an LE, you’ve gotten an offer from dealer X, and brown nose again (“i’ve heard such great things about ….”)….Just tell them to give them their email address because you want to email the price quote from dealer X. Once you get the saleguy’s email address, you’re good to haggle via email as before.

Closing…

*Get more than 1 dealer to agree to the same price

*Get the final OTD price and list the price breakdown in email

*Request to get the specific VIN number for the car and say you will go there to pick it up on the weekend.

*Arrange the appointment on the same day for the dealer. Dealer 1 in the morning, Dealer 2 in the early afternoon, Dealer 3 in the late afternoon. Deelar 4 in the early evening.

*Bring all email showing quoted prices for each dealer, bring all your documents, etc.

*Don’t put down a security deposit. For high volume cars, it’s completely unnecessary.

*Show up at dealer 1.

Don’t even think about changing the options or renegotating things at that point. Verify the VIN for the car being sold. Test drive the car. Verify the car is ok. Say no to all the add on options, extended warranties, etc. Sign and drive off.

If there is any problems with dealer1, walk out. (make sure you you file a complaint with BBB). Go to dealer 2. And repeat. If there are problems with dealers #2, go over to dealer 3.

If you do close on a car, call back dealers 2,3,4 and tell them you are having car troubles, and need to reschedule because you’re going to be out of town next week. Throw away that temporary email address and never call them bac.

This process is like trying to get dates with 4 people at the same day at the same time via flattery, and then dumping all but one of them at the end of the day, and making sure the rest can’t reach you afterwards.

Good luck

[Coronita]

[quote=as]Flu, Do you know some dealers in LA? I will give them a call and see their offer.
What is the reasonable price I should accept as my bottom line? 14k+tax and doc fees?
I’ve talked to a couple of dealers on the phone in SD. Boy, they are as cunning as fox, as slippery as eels. I hate to deal with them.[/quote]

I don’t know them personally.

SouthBayToyota has had good deals, but they are kinda slimy

TorranceToyota has pretty good reps, but you have to haggle.

I think you need to modify your approach. You’re doing too much calling and not enough emailling.

Go to edmunds.com,and enter a zip for LA 90501 (torrance for example). Price out your options and notice the invoice price (don’t include the destination charges)

As part of edumnds, you can request quotes from dealers. Do that for all available dealers in LA.
Repeat the same thing for vehix.com and carsdirect.com

Provide an email address (actually ,create a brand new gmail/yahoo email address for this purpose, and use your initials or some cute name (not your real name)). Give them your phone number, but leave explicit instructions to contact you by email.

When dealers start emailing you, ask them for the best OTD price (saying you’re from SD with a sales tax 7.75 and am willing to go to la to pick up the car if it’s priced well) and ask them to itemize the cost of the car. Make sure you are polite. Kiss the dealers butt….Make sure you say things in your email like “you’d prefer to buy from that dealer, because friend XYZ had lots of good things to say about that dealer, and value your friend’s advice” Or that, you’ve read on the internet great sales and service from the dealership, give some sap story about how rude another dealer was. Or that some car enthusiast forum highly recommended your dealership and you wanted to try to deal with them. Or that friend “John” bought a car from them in the past and was happy with the purchase. Never cave and name them your price….Let the offers flow in.

Ignore dealers that call initially.

If a dealers emails back tells you to call them for the best price, politely reply and state a plausible excuse like (you’re in a meeting right now, can you please just send me your best price so I can review)…If they really insist of you calling back, just put those dealers on the back burners (until you get other prices from other dealers).

Once you start getting some named prices, you can see where prices start to fall. Play one dealer off of the other, by lowering each dealers price by $200. Some comments

(1) Never try to play one dealer off of two or more dealers at the same time.Often times, a dealer that feels they are in competition with two or more simulataneously just end up dropping out early and say “well, good luck with those two”

(2) While it’s fine to name drop other dealer, never name the actual salesperson,contact information etc.

(3) Do your best negotation for the first dealer as low as you go. Get the price in the email. (OTD price and list all the pricing). 2-3 email exchanges.

(4) Move on to the dealer you were playing off of the first one, and get the price as low as you can go. 2-3 email exchanges.

Once you have deals from about 3 dealers. Email them back and say, you’ll think about it.

(5) Move on to the dealers that emailed you to call them back. Email them back and say, you’re seeing $$xxx-200 from dealer X, can you provide a better price? I’m from SD blah blah blah. Make sure you extend that nice brown nosing you did before. “You know the pricing is really good at dealer X, but i’ve heard so many good things about your dealership from my friends. Is there anything possibility you can do to about this?…..”

(6) Call back the dealers that called but never emailed you. And tell them you’re interested in purchasing an LE, you’ve gotten an offer from dealer X, and brown nose again (“i’ve heard such great things about ….”)….Just tell them to give them their email address because you want to email the price quote from dealer X. Once you get the saleguy’s email address, you’re good to haggle via email as before.

Closing…

*Get more than 1 dealer to agree to the same price

*Get the final OTD price and list the price breakdown in email

*Request to get the specific VIN number for the car and say you will go there to pick it up on the weekend.

*Arrange the appointment on the same day for the dealer. Dealer 1 in the morning, Dealer 2 in the early afternoon, Dealer 3 in the late afternoon. Deelar 4 in the early evening.

*Bring all email showing quoted prices for each dealer, bring all your documents, etc.

*Don’t put down a security deposit. For high volume cars, it’s completely unnecessary.

*Show up at dealer 1.

Don’t even think about changing the options or renegotating things at that point. Verify the VIN for the car being sold. Test drive the car. Verify the car is ok. Say no to all the add on options, extended warranties, etc. Sign and drive off.

If there is any problems with dealer1, walk out. (make sure you you file a complaint with BBB). Go to dealer 2. And repeat. If there are problems with dealers #2, go over to dealer 3.

If you do close on a car, call back dealers 2,3,4 and tell them you are having car troubles, and need to reschedule because you’re going to be out of town next week. Throw away that temporary email address and never call them bac.

This process is like trying to get dates with 4 people at the same day at the same time via flattery, and then dumping all but one of them at the end of the day, and making sure the rest can’t reach you afterwards.

Good luck

[Coronita]

[quote=as]Flu, Do you know some dealers in LA? I will give them a call and see their offer.
What is the reasonable price I should accept as my bottom line? 14k+tax and doc fees?
I’ve talked to a couple of dealers on the phone in SD. Boy, they are as cunning as fox, as slippery as eels. I hate to deal with them.[/quote]

I don’t know them personally.

SouthBayToyota has had good deals, but they are kinda slimy

TorranceToyota has pretty good reps, but you have to haggle.

I think you need to modify your approach. You’re doing too much calling and not enough emailling.

Go to edmunds.com,and enter a zip for LA 90501 (torrance for example). Price out your options and notice the invoice price (don’t include the destination charges)

As part of edumnds, you can request quotes from dealers. Do that for all available dealers in LA.
Repeat the same thing for vehix.com and carsdirect.com

Provide an email address (actually ,create a brand new gmail/yahoo email address for this purpose, and use your initials or some cute name (not your real name)). Give them your phone number, but leave explicit instructions to contact you by email.

When dealers start emailing you, ask them for the best OTD price (saying you’re from SD with a sales tax 7.75 and am willing to go to la to pick up the car if it’s priced well) and ask them to itemize the cost of the car. Make sure you are polite. Kiss the dealers butt….Make sure you say things in your email like “you’d prefer to buy from that dealer, because friend XYZ had lots of good things to say about that dealer, and value your friend’s advice” Or that, you’ve read on the internet great sales and service from the dealership, give some sap story about how rude another dealer was. Or that some car enthusiast forum highly recommended your dealership and you wanted to try to deal with them. Or that friend “John” bought a car from them in the past and was happy with the purchase. Never cave and name them your price….Let the offers flow in.

Ignore dealers that call initially.

If a dealers emails back tells you to call them for the best price, politely reply and state a plausible excuse like (you’re in a meeting right now, can you please just send me your best price so I can review)…If they really insist of you calling back, just put those dealers on the back burners (until you get other prices from other dealers).

Once you start getting some named prices, you can see where prices start to fall. Play one dealer off of the other, by lowering each dealers price by $200. Some comments

(1) Never try to play one dealer off of two or more dealers at the same time.Often times, a dealer that feels they are in competition with two or more simulataneously just end up dropping out early and say “well, good luck with those two”

(2) While it’s fine to name drop other dealer, never name the actual salesperson,contact information etc.

(3) Do your best negotation for the first dealer as low as you go. Get the price in the email. (OTD price and list all the pricing). 2-3 email exchanges.

(4) Move on to the dealer you were playing off of the first one, and get the price as low as you can go. 2-3 email exchanges.

Once you have deals from about 3 dealers. Email them back and say, you’ll think about it.

(5) Move on to the dealers that emailed you to call them back. Email them back and say, you’re seeing $$xxx-200 from dealer X, can you provide a better price? I’m from SD blah blah blah. Make sure you extend that nice brown nosing you did before. “You know the pricing is really good at dealer X, but i’ve heard so many good things about your dealership from my friends. Is there anything possibility you can do to about this?…..”

(6) Call back the dealers that called but never emailed you. And tell them you’re interested in purchasing an LE, you’ve gotten an offer from dealer X, and brown nose again (“i’ve heard such great things about ….”)….Just tell them to give them their email address because you want to email the price quote from dealer X. Once you get the saleguy’s email address, you’re good to haggle via email as before.

Closing…

*Get more than 1 dealer to agree to the same price

*Get the final OTD price and list the price breakdown in email

*Request to get the specific VIN number for the car and say you will go there to pick it up on the weekend.

*Arrange the appointment on the same day for the dealer. Dealer 1 in the morning, Dealer 2 in the early afternoon, Dealer 3 in the late afternoon. Deelar 4 in the early evening.

*Bring all email showing quoted prices for each dealer, bring all your documents, etc.

*Don’t put down a security deposit. For high volume cars, it’s completely unnecessary.

*Show up at dealer 1.

Don’t even think about changing the options or renegotating things at that point. Verify the VIN for the car being sold. Test drive the car. Verify the car is ok. Say no to all the add on options, extended warranties, etc. Sign and drive off.

If there is any problems with dealer1, walk out. (make sure you you file a complaint with BBB). Go to dealer 2. And repeat. If there are problems with dealers #2, go over to dealer 3.

If you do close on a car, call back dealers 2,3,4 and tell them you are having car troubles, and need to reschedule because you’re going to be out of town next week. Throw away that temporary email address and never call them bac.

This process is like trying to get dates with 4 people at the same day at the same time via flattery, and then dumping all but one of them at the end of the day, and making sure the rest can’t reach you afterwards.

Good luck

[macromaniac]

as,

you better by a GM car here or you are going to piss scarlet off something fierce….

[macromaniac]

as,

you better by a GM car here or you are going to piss scarlet off something fierce….

[macromaniac]

as,

you better by a GM car here or you are going to piss scarlet off something fierce….

[macromaniac]

as,

you better by a GM car here or you are going to piss scarlet off something fierce….

[macromaniac]

as,

you better by a GM car here or you are going to piss scarlet off something fierce….

[MadeInTaiwan]

[quote=as]Flu, Do you know some dealers in LA? I will give them a call and see their offer.
What is the reasonable price I should accept as my bottom line? 14k+tax and doc fees?
I’ve talked to a couple of dealers on the phone in SD. Boy, they are as cunning as fox, as slippery as eels. I hate to deal with them.[/quote]

I suggest having everything in place (cash in bank, financing lined up), and call/fax to get the info to a contact at the dealer. Figure out what you’re willing to pay and tell them to get back to you. However you do it, make it clear that you’re ready to buy TODAY. It might help to stop by for a test drive so that you can say “That specific car”. If the dealer does not get back to you, then you’re price is too low. Just because someone got it at a lower price a week ago doesn’t mean the the same deal is available to you. I’ve heard that end of the month helps as dealers want to make the numbers. Don’t know if there is any truth to that.

You have the money, you have the time, so you can relax knowing that you will get a “good” price if you’re patient. You may hate sales people but they need to eat too. Plus you never know, one of you kids may end up working as a car sales person.

Lastly, I am not sure dealers in LA are any less slimy than dealers in SD. What will happen if they lure you to drive up there and then say “sorry, that car was sold”? Now you’re in their familiar territory.

MadeInTaiwan

[MadeInTaiwan]

[quote=as]Flu, Do you know some dealers in LA? I will give them a call and see their offer.
What is the reasonable price I should accept as my bottom line? 14k+tax and doc fees?
I’ve talked to a couple of dealers on the phone in SD. Boy, they are as cunning as fox, as slippery as eels. I hate to deal with them.[/quote]

I suggest having everything in place (cash in bank, financing lined up), and call/fax to get the info to a contact at the dealer. Figure out what you’re willing to pay and tell them to get back to you. However you do it, make it clear that you’re ready to buy TODAY. It might help to stop by for a test drive so that you can say “That specific car”. If the dealer does not get back to you, then you’re price is too low. Just because someone got it at a lower price a week ago doesn’t mean the the same deal is available to you. I’ve heard that end of the month helps as dealers want to make the numbers. Don’t know if there is any truth to that.

You have the money, you have the time, so you can relax knowing that you will get a “good” price if you’re patient. You may hate sales people but they need to eat too. Plus you never know, one of you kids may end up working as a car sales person.

Lastly, I am not sure dealers in LA are any less slimy than dealers in SD. What will happen if they lure you to drive up there and then say “sorry, that car was sold”? Now you’re in their familiar territory.

MadeInTaiwan

[MadeInTaiwan]

[quote=as]Flu, Do you know some dealers in LA? I will give them a call and see their offer.
What is the reasonable price I should accept as my bottom line? 14k+tax and doc fees?
I’ve talked to a couple of dealers on the phone in SD. Boy, they are as cunning as fox, as slippery as eels. I hate to deal with them.[/quote]

I suggest having everything in place (cash in bank, financing lined up), and call/fax to get the info to a contact at the dealer. Figure out what you’re willing to pay and tell them to get back to you. However you do it, make it clear that you’re ready to buy TODAY. It might help to stop by for a test drive so that you can say “That specific car”. If the dealer does not get back to you, then you’re price is too low. Just because someone got it at a lower price a week ago doesn’t mean the the same deal is available to you. I’ve heard that end of the month helps as dealers want to make the numbers. Don’t know if there is any truth to that.

You have the money, you have the time, so you can relax knowing that you will get a “good” price if you’re patient. You may hate sales people but they need to eat too. Plus you never know, one of you kids may end up working as a car sales person.

Lastly, I am not sure dealers in LA are any less slimy than dealers in SD. What will happen if they lure you to drive up there and then say “sorry, that car was sold”? Now you’re in their familiar territory.

MadeInTaiwan

[MadeInTaiwan]

[quote=as]Flu, Do you know some dealers in LA? I will give them a call and see their offer.
What is the reasonable price I should accept as my bottom line? 14k+tax and doc fees?
I’ve talked to a couple of dealers on the phone in SD. Boy, they are as cunning as fox, as slippery as eels. I hate to deal with them.[/quote]

I suggest having everything in place (cash in bank, financing lined up), and call/fax to get the info to a contact at the dealer. Figure out what you’re willing to pay and tell them to get back to you. However you do it, make it clear that you’re ready to buy TODAY. It might help to stop by for a test drive so that you can say “That specific car”. If the dealer does not get back to you, then you’re price is too low. Just because someone got it at a lower price a week ago doesn’t mean the the same deal is available to you. I’ve heard that end of the month helps as dealers want to make the numbers. Don’t know if there is any truth to that.

You have the money, you have the time, so you can relax knowing that you will get a “good” price if you’re patient. You may hate sales people but they need to eat too. Plus you never know, one of you kids may end up working as a car sales person.

Lastly, I am not sure dealers in LA are any less slimy than dealers in SD. What will happen if they lure you to drive up there and then say “sorry, that car was sold”? Now you’re in their familiar territory.

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