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Originally Posted by AJL13
Lots of speculation in terms of what you are inferring.
Free market economy; a product is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
It's a business, they have to make money. They got a good return, he got a car he wanted. Win-win. No need to be a condescending jerk.
Not every transaction has to be about taking a dealership to the cleaners and nickel and diming them; especially if you want to maintain a good business relationship with them down the road for whatever reason.
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Uh, no... the dealer plainly ripped him. Its not just "making money" - they saw his need and fed off of it when they could have easily sold that car for atleast 10 grand less and they KNEW that too but they saw they could get him to pay top dollar for it and played him into it so they wouldn't have to take the markup. They had already planned to sell it for less but knew they could get every penny from him and milked him when they didn't have to... There's a difference between free economy and plain greed. In "free economy" the demand for the item is the ultimate determining factor of the price and given that newer models are on the road on top of which a higher grade of the same model exists, the demand is simply not strong enough to justify $40k which is why they mark them up because they've been sitting on the lot untouched all year and they're about to take a huge tax hit from them. This was greed at work.
I'm not being condescending I'm being realistic, why would anyone want to pay $40k for a V6 thats already a year old when you could easily have an BRAND NEW SS with the same level of options for the same price especially during the end of year sales? I understand wanting the car and all and thats cool but its not like 2LT V6's below $35k are uncommon at this time of year. I would understand it more if that wasn't the case but you could easily get a fully loaded 2LT for around $33k during end of year sales and if the local dealer doesn't offer it at that price just find someone who does.