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In article <20rl#1#.analyst@netcom.com> analyst@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:

>Price Club has a plan where they refer you to a particular dealer for
>a particular make of car. I suppose the dealer kicks something back
>to Price Club.
>
>It worked well for me. At a time when they were in scarce supply,
>I got an Lexus LS-400 that way, at 10% off. A colleague shopped around
>all over town and the best he could do was 5% at that time.

Just as a data point:  the '92 sticker for a LS-400 is $42,200 and the
dealer cost is $33,760.  (Unless you know that the ratio was different
when you bought, let's use these numbers.)  Assuming no additional
dealer markup, 10% off would have brought the price to $37,980, for a
$4220 profit.  It's harder to imagine a production car in shorter
supply than the '93 RX-7, and I got it for $1200 over cost.

I'm admittedly making some assumptions here, but they seem reasonable.
If they are, it looks like CB can save someone about $2500-$3000 more
than the Price Club on such a car.

>In addition the dealer was wonderfully courteous, gave me some good deals
>on accessories, and didn't pressure me in any way to take things I
>didn't want.

Yep.  The Lexus dealers are great.  So was the Mazda guy I ended up
doing bidness with.  Some things can't be measured with $$.


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