I'm trying to buy a SuperCrew in the Nebraska/South Dakota
area.
The dealers I have so far talked with want MSRP (or close to it).

Where do you guys find dealers that will sell for a few hundred
over Invoice?
Thanks for any advice. Airial

 

Start with what you can know. Visit edmunds.com if you haven't already. Ditto for any number of the online car "vendors" like
autobytel. For some of them, you can at least get some ballpark costs. Trading in a vehicle too? Then go to kbb.com and get a ballpark figure so you have an idea of trade-in's worth. When you have the general stuff in your head, and it's time to buy, it time to Go to the dealers. But Forget the salesmen for awhile. Find several specific trucks you would want to buy at two or three different dealers. Copy everything down on the sticker. Then go home and figure out the invoice costs for each truck you like. Then it's just a matter of sucking it up and going to each dealer and getting the deal. Frankly, I found my best help from carbuyingtips.com. Great website and lots of info -- Gives you all the games salesmen play and how to avoid them. The site even gives you a spreadsheet (free) you can download to help. While others have had success with the online car buying services, I did not. The "Fleet" salesmen that I was supposedly talking to turned out to be regular sales guys half the time. Just do your homework, and stick to your guns. You'll do fine. Remember to ask the sales guy: "Which would you rather have? 50% of something, or 100% of NUTHIN'?" Good luck!!

 

As the avove message stated, edmunds.com is great. I went to my local dealer and gathered all the info from the sticker, and then compared that to edmunds.com and it is exact. My local dealer, which is one of those hassle free, no dicker sticker places has all supercrews about $600 over invoice which is great. When buying any car you need to control the situation, let the salesman know that he is working for you, tell him that you are willing to pay invoice for the car. Dealers still make thier "holdback" which is 3% at a ford dealer, plus any dealer cash incentives at the time. I would not pay more than about $500 over invoice for a supercrew. Again, edmunds.com will tell you exactly what the invoice is, but be sure to add any options that you want to get the real numbers.

 

I just did what the earlier poster just mentioned when I bought a 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee. I used CARSDIRECT.COM to find exactly what we wanted. We called the dealer to see if they had one and if they would match the price (carsdirect quoted us a price that was less that factory invoice). The dealer said they would beat it. We find exactly what we wanted, although the carsdirect quote didn't include two things that were on the car - heated seats and a CD changer. The dealer pointed out that the quite from Carsdirect says "ABOUT THIS PRICE" that was there negotiating price. Another tip: go at the end of the month and even better if its at the end of the quarter. Good luck!

 

I just purchased a Supercrew that stickered $29,695, worked out a deal for $4000 off MSRP. The deals are out there just have to find them. Good Luck.