Shredder
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They won't. They'll lowball it like they always do. I got $4k more for my Trade-in simply by walking onto a used Car Lot.
For my '02 BMW 330Ci,they started at the low end and, and then deducted.
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They won't. They'll lowball it like they always do. I got $4k more for my Trade-in simply by walking onto a used Car Lot.
For my '02 BMW 330Ci,they started at the low end and, and then deducted.
Has anyone successfully negotiated a better price with AutoNation?
Try taking it to a used car lot. There happened to be two of them across from the Car Wash I was at so I took a chance. One place offered me $3500.00 over AutoNation, the other was $4k higher. Took all of ten minutes to make four grand. Plus I felt better selling my car to someone who was willing to pay me a fair price. Screw AutoNation. I sent them an email and told them to take their ripoff offer and shove it.I tried and they said the prices only go down, not up. Really a horrible sales pitch.
With that said I am ok with what the offered me but will still try and sell the car elsewhere. KBB trade in is about $18,500, private party around $20,500, they offered $16,200. Realistically I may get $19,500 privately if I put in the effort and find the right buyer, factoring sales tax savings, I get about $17,200 from Autonation. Real difference is about $2,300 compared to private party. Autonation knows exactly where to price cars to give you the lowest number that looks good on paper.
Welcome to the forum. Your homework assignment is to take at least 2 friends/relatives with you on the factory tour.Hi all... just found this wonderful forum.
Ordered my Pearl White Model S85 on Saturday Jan 25th. Confirmed on Monday Jan 27th. VIN is 32890. Wife and I will be picking it up on March 21st then taking the Factory Tour
Ordered P85 on Monday (2/3) early confirm Wednesday (2/5) and got a VIN 337XX today. No specific delivery date yet as it still shows March.
Hope AutoNation gave you a fair quote![/QUOTE
I checked a couple of dealers and was offered 13,800 and 14,300. I knew it was worth more than that. A trade in for another 5353i would have got 15,000 from my local BMW dealership, which was low. I accepted the 15,500 that auto nation offered. It was on the low side I know. But I didn't have time to sell it myself. Until now, I hadn't given it much thought. Driving my new MS has been so nice, I haven't had time to grieve for the BMW.:biggrin:
I didn't tell him that I was already stalking the car.
My car is on the final leg from Vancouver (service center) to Calgary. As I did the official delivery in Vancouver on Monday the App has been enabled so I've been tracking the journey. Might have to go to sleep at some point but I'll be checking it again when I wake up. The truck driver kindly said he would text me at various points on the journey so I would "know where the car is". I didn't tell him that I was already stalking the car.
Agreed gpetti very fun to be a voyeur. Best of luck!
My car showed up (at my house) at 09:00. The driver texted me through the night to tell me where he was (Tesla must have told him I was a tad impatient). This kept me up every three hours but I was pretty excited anyway. My attempts to stalk him were sometimes thwarted by the mountains interfering with reception and sometimes the GPS location seemed a bit off; however, when the driver was within about 15 minutes I was able to turn on the climate control to start warming up the frigid car. It had warmed from -3 to above 10 degrees by the time I received it. I got one glorious drive to take the car to the store that installed my Rial Luganos/Blizzak wheels. It is better than I remember - especially as it is my car.