Dealer Documentary charges BS?
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Wow that's pretty good. Here there's a waiting list and I got lucky to get mine. They came down off window sticker $300, but there was a $300 doc fee on top of that so it was basically window sticker out the door. That was pretty good because considering I had a guy at another Honda dealership that told me he'd give me $500 over window sticker for it right then.
I know, doc fee's sound like a lot of BS, but the Dealerships have to pay fees to 3rd parties to get some of the necessary paper work done.
I know, doc fee's sound like a lot of BS, but the Dealerships have to pay fees to 3rd parties to get some of the necessary paper work done.
#12
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Originally Posted by Rick
Wow that's pretty good. Here there's a waiting list and I got lucky to get mine. They came down off window sticker $300, but there was a $300 doc fee on top of that so it was basically window sticker out the door. That was pretty good because considering I had a guy at another Honda dealership that told me he'd give me $500 over window sticker for it right then.
I know, doc fee's sound like a lot of BS, but the Dealerships have to pay fees to 3rd parties to get some of the necessary paper work done.
I know, doc fee's sound like a lot of BS, but the Dealerships have to pay fees to 3rd parties to get some of the necessary paper work done.
Terry
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Originally Posted by tbaleno
Easy way to get around it is to be prepared to walk.
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Here in North Phoenix, we found a single dealership with one hybrid. It had a $969 application initiation fee and a $3,500 "market adjustment" added to the sticker. With all their other crap, the dealer had tacked on over $5,000 worth of nothing. It's going to be tough until they start delivering more cars to our area.
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Just wait it out if you can. No reason to buy a car under those conditions unless you are desperate. Hold on to what you have. Let the dealer sit on that car. at a $5,000 markup if someone wants to pay that much for the car let them have it. Its not like honda is going to run out of HCHs.
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Originally Posted by tbaleno
Just wait it out if you can. No reason to buy a car under those conditions unless you are desperate. Hold on to what you have. Let the dealer sit on that car. at a $5,000 markup if someone wants to pay that much for the car let them have it. Its not like honda is going to run out of HCHs.
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Originally Posted by jamriman
My dealer wants to charge me a $129 clerical , equiment usage, dealership online processing charge. Anyone get hit with thiis charge and refuse to pay it? thanks and happy holidays!
A hundred bucks or so sounds *reasonable* depending on what your state requires and whether you're processing a trade and paying off the loan on your old car etc. because there's a bit of paper crunching/administrative stuf involved (as as the margins wheetle lower on a car, it's tough to turn a profit if the retailer has to eat that.
I'd guess it would be easy to NOT pay that on a high-margin item like a Denali and less-so on a low-margin sale like a Hybrid.
"Dealer Prep" (getting the car ready for delivery, putting in a full tank of gas, and having all the (standard) parts installed) is included in the price - Honda pays the retailer for that. But you'll probably have to pay those administrative fees, for the greedy notaries of the world who want to get paid, and for doing the legwork of processing the pay-off on your trade, etc. It's a ton of paper, and somebody has to crunch it.
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Originally Posted by AZMerf
Here in North Phoenix, we found a single dealership with one hybrid. It had a $969 application initiation fee and a $3,500 "market adjustment" added to the sticker. With all their other crap, the dealer had tacked on over $5,000 worth of nothing. It's going to be tough until they start delivering more cars to our area.
Application initiation fee. That's a new one. I've heard the "Market Adjustment" here before too - they did it on that retro truck-thing from Chevy when it first came out (5 grand, handwritten on the sticker) and they're probably still doing it for a new Mini, since there's only 2 stores in the state that sell them new.
The "Application Initiation Fee" sounds like the tactics of the "Buy it Here/Pay it Here" kind of financing. There's usually a scenario in which the dealer keeps one of your keys, held in trust in case of non-payment by some guy named "Kneecaps Charlie" or "Vinnie the Fin"
You'd probably do better by driving to San Diego, getting a hotel room, and buying the car there/driving back.
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Originally Posted by nimbus2k
You'd probably do better by driving to San Diego, getting a hotel room, and buying the car there/driving back.
#20
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Yes I have already taken delivery of mine, and actually I'm pretty sure I've already got it sold to a relative as soon as the one I want comes in. I had a Opal blue one on order but they called me when someone backed out of their Alabaster Silver one. So I should also be taking delivery of an Opal Blue one after the new year when it comes in.
AZMerf, go talk to Louis in Fleet Sales at Arrowhead Honda. We delt with him and it was really a no BS deal.
AZMerf, go talk to Louis in Fleet Sales at Arrowhead Honda. We delt with him and it was really a no BS deal.