Heard of dealer offering several thousand over what they paid (am guessing invoice or less, maybe MSRP?) To people if they wanted to sell their car back! Supply and demand adjustment. Then he can flip it and make $1-2k. My son had a Telluride in Hail storm last March, took 3 months to find and buy last roof, even bracing under roof panel had to be replaced. 100% repaint,. Hopes to get car soon but body shop closed due to covid. Last cost I heard $21k+. He needs it back so he can have hail damage repair started on his pickup.
What will be markup for maverick when 1/3 of all F150,F250,? Owners decide they want one for daily driver when it costs them $300 +/- to fill up?
One dealer says they can't get a Maverick for test drives, only for customer orders. Therefore, hit an ordered truck with a surprise mark-up and the customer cancels, giving the dealer a truck to play with.
I was thinking about that today. How many dealers are just playing along with retail orders, intending on surprising the customer will a markup later. The dealer wins either way: either the customer who ordered the truck pays the extra, or the next customer does
Or end up with a collection of overpriced Mavericks sitting on their lot
I think there may be something to this. I won’t name dealership or anything as it was a quick casual check to see if any orders/demo/dealer trainers were inbound just to see and sit in one, and a casual ask if they were dealing at all, just msrp, or marking up. No pressing or further discussion or anything to see if they were serious or just playing their game of starting real high. Anyhow, that particular dealer/salesman replied with a pretty hefty markup (along the lines of in stock markups you hear lately) even on an ordered one. This is in SE TX. I bet some of them probably are angling to get the same money in the end on an ordered vehicle they’ve been able to get away with on stock units.
If mine ever comes in, and they do the mark up game, my Honda will stay in my garage. Nothing wrong with it. Will last another 150,000 miles.
Didja tell em to stick it where the sun don't shine?Sunland Ford in Victorville did a 3995 dollar markup on my Maverick XL. AWD with 4k tow .. ugghhh.
I definitely worry about this. But I've ordered Cyber Orange, the least popular color, so maybe they won't want it lol
It's not hard to understand, the dealers are not owned by Ford. The dealer purchases the trucks and the trucks are owned by the dealership, then they can set whatever price they want. The real issue is, why are there people who would purchase a Maverick for 4K over MSRP. This is why ALL the dealerships are so against Tesla....
