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Invoice - 1250 and 0%
Actually, I also got the $250 coupon from miata10. Thank you again.
Salesman did not counter, so I could have probably gotten it for even less if I wanted to.
-Ken
Why? Every Mazda dealer wants to do your service as they make money off it. Where you buy your car and where you get it serviced have nothing to do with one another. It's an old wive's tale that somehow the service will be better if you bought there. Bah. Dealerships don't make jack off the sale of a car. It's used cars, parts and service that make up the majority of a dealership's revenues.
I think blueguy has a good point in theory but it might not always work out in the practical sense.
There has been lots of conversation about this sort of thing on the Smart Shopper board in the past ... that's a good place to find some of our very helpful salesfolks members to ask directly.
No point in buying a car from a dealership just because it has a good service setup.
My view:
Buy it from where you get the best deal.
Service it from where u get the best service.
Car is supposed to be built the first week of October. Very happy to get the manual tranny and the options I wanted. Hope to use a $250 Rev It Up coupon + incentives at delivery. Final pricing to follow.
Also, someone mentioned above that one should be able to get an '03 now for $1500 below invoice. How is that possible? The best I have found is $500 over invoice.
Thanks in advance,
Wayne
If the car has a $2000 rebate, then you'd start negotiating from about $2500 below invoice. It's that simple. The dealer will obviously not go for it right off the bat but they need to make a sale.
Selling a year old 2003 Mazda6 for $500 over invoice is an insult as the dealer will make over $2500 on that car. $500 profit is decent. $1000 extreme. $2500? That's like they raided your piggybank.
Check www.mazdausa.com for full details.
And what's with the new 1LX Luxury Package? Includes leather seating with heated front seats (formerly LS1 plus 1CO) which makes sense, but also includes "electroluminescent gauges" (formerly in the 1SE Sport Package). What the heck do those gauges have to do with a "Luxury Package?
Thanks,
Wayne
I got one for $11, just in case I decide to buy a 6. If I don't, I'll turn around and sell it to some one else.
The car should be sold at or below invoice before subtracting rebates.
I specifically asked about dealer fess and he gave me the $195. I also quoted the invoice from edmunds.
blueguy - In your world all the dealers will be out of business soon and we'll buy all our cars from you. At thousands below invoice of course!
I'm in Texas and my local Mazda dealer has been advertising their 6's with a dealer discount that places the sales price at invoice and then they subtract the rebate.
??? I don't sell cars. And yes in my ideal world, most stealerships would go out of business. I detest dealerships and everything they represent. I'd much prefer not to have to deal with them - that's one reason I almost did Euro Delivery on my car. I'd be even happier if I could do a Euro Delivery or American Port delivery and never have to deal with those snake oil salesmen.
just for fun sake, consider this statement:
my dealer is sooo good, i feel he should make my car, not mazda.
No. everybody cannnot do everything. the operations would be humongous....make that gargantuan.
find that out and make your decision.
my dealer is sooo good, i feel he should make my car, not mazda.
No. everybody cannnot do everything. the operations would be humongous....make that gargantuan.
I get it's a pipe dream. But I still like to dream the dream that dealerships will no longer exist as we know them with predatory prevaricators lurking among plastic and sheetmetal. Oh that'd be so nice...sigh.
Let's get back to Prices Paid and Buying Experience here in this topic. Thanks.
This car has the standard options except it comes with the Sport Automatic Transmission.
MSRP 22640
Invoice 20872
TMV 21524 (may vary with region)
Invoice minus the $2000 rebate is $18872, so what you're saying is they're offering the car for $86 under invoice. Yes it's a good price, but watch out for a bait-and-switch or bogus add-on fees. I smell a sucker play. How much is their doc fee?
MSRP 22640
Invoice 20872
TMV 21524 (may vary with region)
Invoice minus the $2000 rebate is $18872, so what you're saying is they're offering the car for $86 under invoice. Yes it's a good price, but watch out for a bait-and-switch or bogus add-on fees. I smell a sucker play. How much is their doc fee?"
The doc fee was high, about $118. How much should the doc fee cost? One dealer had a doc fee of $50, so I know this is not a standard fee. Should I pay this at all?
But like I said, watch out for a bait-and-switch or bogus add-on fees. They'll sucker you in with a good price and then hit you with the extra stuff after you've gotten excited about driving home in your new car. You know, extra dealer prep fees, extended warantees, credit life insurance, protection packages, clear coat, fabric protection, etc. I'm assuming that what they have quoted you is all just verbal. Check the paperwork real good.
Doesn't this belong in another discussion?
Happy to join the club of mazda6 owners. Just bought one tonight.
Metallic Red Mazda6 i AT
With options:
Sports package
Comfort package
Premium package
Bose audio package
Moonroof
Black leather seats
ABS
Side air bags/curtains
ULEV Emissions
Final price not including tax and license fee ($191) and document prep fee ($45):
$20,850
I combined the $1000 rebate for sports, $500 recent grad discount. Apparently, the rebate is $2000 for non sports package.
I thought the price was decent, what do you all think? I'm paranoid that they pulled one over me...
thanks!
Question is this: Edmunds claims that in order to get the Security Package one must buy either the 1SE sport package w/rear spoiler or the 2SE package w/o spoiler. This conflicts with Mazda's pricing sheet (on its website), which does not mention an option to buy either one to get the Security Package. Anyone know if Edmunds is wrong about this? If not, perhaps the Edmunds moderator might point this out to the people upstairs and ask for the straight dope.
Other SoCal places have been less than straightforward (some have not even emailed me back), so I'm dealing primarily with the Internet Manager for Anaheim Mazda. Now if only the car tax weren't shooting up tomorrow *sigh*