Who's seen the most egregious price gouging?
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From: SF Bay Area
My sticker had a $7K markup over MSRP. They even had it written to look like the red/black leather was dealer installed when it's just part of the package. My deal was about $100 over MSRP when you consider the trade in for the accord.
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From: Las Vegas
Coutesy in Henderson NV
On lot 8....
$2500 in the window "market value adjustment" (pure markup)
+
$1295 "Desert Protection Package" (armor all)
+
$3792 "Dealer Installed Options" (nothing you would want certainly not at the inflated prices)
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$7587 in total markup......
Additionally, the sales folks were genuinely uninterested in discussing the car with me. Could be I look like a bum, or maybe they just don't give a darn and have a take it or leave it attitude.
For now they are the only dealer for a 120 mile radius, though there are ads for a new dealership comming this fall about 30 miles away. We'll have to see....
On lot 8....
$2500 in the window "market value adjustment" (pure markup)
+
$1295 "Desert Protection Package" (armor all)
+
$3792 "Dealer Installed Options" (nothing you would want certainly not at the inflated prices)
---------
$7587 in total markup......
Additionally, the sales folks were genuinely uninterested in discussing the car with me. Could be I look like a bum, or maybe they just don't give a darn and have a take it or leave it attitude.
For now they are the only dealer for a 120 mile radius, though there are ads for a new dealership comming this fall about 30 miles away. We'll have to see....
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From: Socorro, NM
Not many dealers in NM, either
My folks wanted to get a look at the RX-8 when I told them I had ordered one, so they went to a dealer in Santa Fe and saw it listed with a $5000 "market value adjustment"
NM is a big, mostly empty state like NV, but luckily there is more than one dealer within a 120 mile radius...!
NM is a big, mostly empty state like NV, but luckily there is more than one dealer within a 120 mile radius...!
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From: Lenexa, KS
$5,000 to $10,000
Some Kansas City dealers are charging on average $5000 over sticker. A dealer in IL - just over the river from St Louis said I could have one for $10,000 over sticker. I thought he was joking - but he wasn't. He also said that the $10,000 they were asking was a non refundable deposit. So if you didn't like the car you were SOL and the $10,000.
The sales manager then got on the line and said that is the price take it or leave it. I left it.
Went to a St. Charles Mazda dealer and got my car in three days at sticker.
The sales manager then got on the line and said that is the price take it or leave it. I left it.
Went to a St. Charles Mazda dealer and got my car in three days at sticker.
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