Dealers are still stupid

[RCSignals]

After the Oregon Chapter meeting today, i decided to take a drive down to one of the local L-M dealers.
They have one Black 300A still, with over 230 miles, and a new Silver with about 3 miles.

Both have "sale" signs, the Black says $33,650, the silver says $33,860. Both are noted after rebate. They are obviously still adding a premium to MSRP

[RF Overlord]

I popped in to my dealer last week to visit the black 300B they've had on the lot for the last 3 months...A big orange sign in the windscreen said "was $34,495, now $28,999"...no mention of rebates, but I'd be willing to bet they were included in that new price...only had 39 miles on it...

[Bigdogjim]

Last time I stopped at the dealer I found one with a vinyl top :bs:
Now my doctor told me to stay away from the dealership:alone:

[jgc61sr2002]

Originally posted by RCSignals
After the Oregon Chapter meeting today, i decided to take a drive down to one of the local L-M dealers.
They have one Black 300A still, with over 230 miles, and a new Silver with about 3 miles.

Both have "sale" signs, the Black says $33,650, the silver says $33,860. Both are noted after rebate. They are obviously still adding a premium to MSRP RC - That dealer will have those MM 's for a long time. That's less than $2,000 off sticker.

[UncleLar]

I remember when the Buick GNX came out there was a dealer in Arlington Hts.,Il that had one. They had it roped off in the showroom with a second sticker alongside the original sticker showing a dealer markup in price,I was sort of astounded ,as near as I can recall it was a $20 or $30K markup on top the MSRP. There were only 500 GNX's made,some of the Mercury dealers think the Marauder is the same type deal and a chance to make a killing. The Honda dealers were marking up the S2000's by 3-5K over MSRPin California,my son bought one here at MSRP and they threw in some extras.My cousin just went to look at a new Mitsu Evolution out of curiousity,the dealer had added a bunch of cr_p to it to drive up the price and refused to let him sit in it or even open the hood for him.He could've wrote a check and driven out with it if he'd wanted. Every dealer is different,some think a new popular car is a license to take people to the cleaners,some are pretty square shooters. They can only pull that markup stuff if someone lets them. My best friend just bought a top of the line 2003 Harley 100th Anniv. Edition and paid 2-3K more for it cause he could get it in 2 weeks instead of 2 months where I can get deals on Harleys,we all told him he was goofy,he knows he overpaid,but he's happy so we all dropped it. We pays our money and makes our choice.

[JohnnyB]

A LM dealer in my area still has the original MM they received in June 2002. Been on the lot for a year!!!

[jgc61sr2002]

My local dealer has 5 300A's the newest built 9/02. One still has a hand written sticker asking $ 1,500 over MSRP (sticker). These cars are beat from laying in the lot for almost a year.

[merc]

I was just at my dealers lot this weekend and they have the same two 300a M/M's from 9/02/. Now they have over 150 miles on them. Damn, I was the only purchase in over 9 months and the only one sold. This is starting to look like my 401K. Hope this car becomes a collectable before I do.


I know what you're thinking. Did he have a six cylinder or a supercharged eight cylinder? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a Mercury Marauder, the most powerful 4 door Sedan in the world, and would blow your bumpers clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?

Dirty Merc

:rasta:

[RF Overlord]

merc:

ROFL!!

All three of us were laughing: me, Smith, and Wesson...