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Originally Posted by jschulz79
I really envy all of you guys in California with tons of dealerships with huge inventory who need to move units. Based upon my review of this thread, it seems like everyone is getting 8-12% off MSRP plus incentives. Meanwhile, here in Michigan with our three dealerships with limited inventory, the situation is ridiculous.
I recently decided I wanted to trade-in my 2016 YMB M3 for a new M340i xDrive. I found a few vehicles at two local dealerships I was interested in. The experience was...different from everyone in this thread.
Dealer No. 1: At first he wouldn't give me any information at all, kept telling me to come into the dealership. I kept pushing him. So finally he emailed me with this for a $63,120 MSRP car. $2,500 due at signing, $825 per month (including 6% Michigan sales tax). Lol. This was in response to my offer of 10% off MSRP, which would have been around $595 per month with no money down. When I responded that this made no sense, as it appears that you'd have to go ABOVE MSRP to get to $825 per month, his only response was "how do you want me to proceed." When I told him that I wanted an explanation of how you could possible come up with those numbers, he simply stopped responding to me.
Dealer No. 2. Never even got to talking price, because I wanted to get a ballpark estimate of the trade-in for my M3. They said depending on condition, they would offer $35,000 - $36,000. KBB is $42,000. Again, when I asked for why so low, given that they would turn around and sell it for $45,000, no response.
The lack of customer service here is crazy. Apparently they have a line of people begging to get ripped off. I guess my only choice is to wait until the spring and sell the M3 myself, then go outside Michigan to find a new car. It's a shame. Anyone else have similar Michigan experiences? Everyone I see in here seems to be from California / East Coast.
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Check out Leasehackr.com or there are a bunch of dealers on this website that will sell you the car for a fair price and you can have it shipped to you or go for PCD (Performance Center Delivery) which is in South Carolina and you can fly there, have some fun at the PCD and drive the car home.
There's nothing wrong with buying from out of state - some can even bill you for the right taxes and register your car in your state (usually that works for dealers in states close to you).
I live in VA, bought my car from a MD dealer
