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Re: $20,000 over sticker for Chevy Volt is simply supply and demand

>> "So you think the Chevrolet Volt electric car will cost too much? Tell

>> that to the Chevy dealer who has already decided to charge $20,000 >> over the sticker price. >> >> That's right. Months before the first Volt lands on a showroom floor, >> there's enough excitement that the dealer -- who earns a living >> calculating what the market will bear -- is charging nearly 50% more >> than General Motors' asking price for the revolutionary car. > > VW did that with the new BUG and Toyota would too if they made anything > worth buying. Doesn't last long for any of them.

Toyota has made cars "worth buying", and dealers have charged over sticker. One of the more recent examples I can think of was the 1991 MR2. "ADMU" (Additional Dealer Mark Up, a dealer's "fee" for actually having a car on the lot) was $1700. Prius' were going for $2500 or more over MSRP.

Ooops...sorry for shooting your post full of holes.

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Hachiroku
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You got me but vonsumer gouging doesn't last long (excretions like feeding free money to bankers has always amazed me but I guess it's like crank to some) and Leaves a permanently bad taste in consumer mouths.

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homey

I had an '85 Corolla GTS in '91 when the 'new' MR2 came out. I was passing a dealer and saw one so I stopped. The salesman said, "but there's an ADMU on that car".

No there isn't

Yeah, I think that car has an ADMU

No it doesn't.

He yells across the floor "What's the ADMU on an MR2?" and gets an answer of $1600.

Yeah, thyere's a $1600 ADMU on that car.

Maybe, but I'm not paying it. I'll pay sticker and not a penny more.

So we went over the numbers and just couldn't get to the payment I wanted, so I walked away.

What really killed him was when he asked me if I wanted to drive the car.

No.

But he kept trying. I pointed to my wife and said, maybe she will.

Off they went. 10 minutes later they come back.

This is the REAL killer:

I looked at my wife and said, What did you think?

She shrugged her shoulders and said, "Eh....."

The poor guy looked crestfallen. That's when we started talking about monthly payments but we just couldn't get it to where I needed it.

Ah, well. I still have the Corolla.

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Hachiroku

Nissan pulled that business on a friend of mine for a GT-R. He wanted the car so badly that he offered $5000 over sticker, and they refused. They wanted $15000 admu.

That convinced to never consider another Nissan.

I tried to buy a new Z car at a different dealership just a few weeks after that, and was treated so poorly that I would never consider a Nissan either ...just because of the behavior of these people.

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hls

I tell them I'll pay sticker, not a penny more.

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Hachiroku

He must have been an imbecile even to over 5 large over sticker. I might pay sticker if I had a real hard-on for a vehicle...but not a penny more.

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Sharx35

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Jane Galt

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