Buying A Screw! Need Help Quick!
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Originally Posted by steve3911
The one dealer who said he couldn't beat the deal compared it with and without the Xplan. He was still ending up about $1000 higher then the place I'm buying it from. I figured I must be getting a good deal if two other dealers aren't able to at least match the deal.
~Steve
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08-30-2006, 02:52 PM
Originally Posted by polarbear
One last time for the slow kids.... 
Last year, a good percentage of the boards looked at the employee prices and rebates and came to the conclusion that they shouldn't buy one, but wait until later when the deals got better. That decision cost them a few thousand dollars- and those great deals never came back.
re: X-Plan. If you use X-plan, the dealer HAS to sell it at X-Plan price (yeah, ford polices that). You can't get any retail rebates, so the $500 x-plan money is all that there is out there in combination with the 05. If you honestly believe you can buy a new Screw for less than $600 under invoice (approximate X-Plan deal)- knock yourself out. It'll be a challenge though.
re: discounts in years gone by. Margins got shrunk on '06, and it'll happen again in '07 (% difference between invoice and MSRP), so it's not realistic to expect the same $$$ discount off of MSRP that you got a couple/three years ago, because there's less room to play with in markup. In '07, a 10% discount will be considered a good deal.
re: ordering. You can only order '07's- which aren't part of the $500 plan rebates or 0% incentive. Replay of last year.
Sorry to sound cranky, but there's some really terrible advice being thrown out there tonight.
Last year, a good percentage of the boards looked at the employee prices and rebates and came to the conclusion that they shouldn't buy one, but wait until later when the deals got better. That decision cost them a few thousand dollars- and those great deals never came back.
re: X-Plan. If you use X-plan, the dealer HAS to sell it at X-Plan price (yeah, ford polices that). You can't get any retail rebates, so the $500 x-plan money is all that there is out there in combination with the 05. If you honestly believe you can buy a new Screw for less than $600 under invoice (approximate X-Plan deal)- knock yourself out. It'll be a challenge though.
re: discounts in years gone by. Margins got shrunk on '06, and it'll happen again in '07 (% difference between invoice and MSRP), so it's not realistic to expect the same $$$ discount off of MSRP that you got a couple/three years ago, because there's less room to play with in markup. In '07, a 10% discount will be considered a good deal.
re: ordering. You can only order '07's- which aren't part of the $500 plan rebates or 0% incentive. Replay of last year.
Sorry to sound cranky, but there's some really terrible advice being thrown out there tonight.
You should have no problems at all getting an 06 for invoice minus the rebate.
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