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Absolutely you will get a better deal. I run a car dealership and with supply being extremely low and demand being pretty high right now were getting more for everything...lots of new cars bringing sticker. Am I demanding sticker and turning away buyers that wont pay it....hell no. Am I pushing more for it than normal because of the supply issues, yes. Ive also been doing it long enough to know that fall/winter is coming PLUS were in an election year and sales decline every 4 years because of that. I take a guaranteed sale now over the hopes of one tomorrow plus I know inventory will be back in line again soon and we will be discounting heavily again. Deals will be made this fall....dealers saying order now or you wont have a boat for next season are simply using sales tactics that from what it seems are working to scare the hell out of people into paying thousands over retail.
What’s even more crazy is at the end of the year I see dealers offering $6k off and no prep fees. Might be a better idea to wait until the end of next year.
My dealer knocked off the freight and prep charge within 5 minutes of communication. Still working on deeper discounts but freight and prep was easy to get by
Typically when they say that they are just discounting the topline (msrp) unless its a smaller dealership, all of our paperwork has to be right we have a corporate to deal with lol. Not saying that's what they did just what we see from the bigger powersports dealerships.
Typically when they say that they are just discounting the topline (msrp) unless its a smaller dealership, all of our paperwork has to be right we have a corporate to deal with lol. Not saying that's what they did just what we see from the bigger powersports dealerships.
Doesnt matter to me where it comes from. All these people are being quoted MSRP plus Freight & Prep....Im simply letting them know what can be done. A discount is a discount....nobody should be paying thousands over MSRP for anything.
Also, if you want to know what invoice is go to seedealercost dot com and look up your boat. They don’t have 2021s year but the 2020 should be close. Keep in mind that there are some dealer cost that are added to that invoice number but not a lot
Doesnt matter to me where it comes from. All these people are being quoted MSRP plus Freight & Prep....Im simply letting them know what can be done. A discount is a discount....nobody should be paying thousands over MSRP for anything.
Ya, I don’t really care how they come to that number as long as they come to that number. You can charge me $1 for a $61k boat and add $55k in fees and I’ll be happy.
I bought my boat before Covid really hit and was unsure if I should even get a boat. Who would have thought so many people would rush out and get boats. I'm sure Yamaha would not have closed down their factories if they thought sales would do what they did. Back to current situation, no way would I put down non-refundable cash for a boat now. I would roll the dice and wait and see what happens next spring, I have a feeling the market will be really different then. There is always a boat to be found, albeit not always new.
Is that on any Yamaha boat? Not too bad...not great either but a lot better then most dealers. I’m might have to make a drive if they’ll do that deal on a 25ft
The drive might be worth it to those of us that live in high tax states. Here in CA you not only have the state sales tax but then each county adds their own on top of that and then incorporated cities add sales tax on top of that. For motorized vehicles you pay the tax for the area it will be registered. Where I live sales tax is currently 8.75% and other areas with in an hour drive are 9.25%.
The drive might be worth it to those of us that live in high tax states. Here in CA you not only have the state sales tax but then each county adds their own on top of that and then incorporated cities add sales tax on top of that. For motorized vehicles you pay the tax for the area it will be registered. Where I live sales tax is currently 8.75% and other areas with in an hour drive are 9.25%.