When we bought our 2024 Subaru Outback the adm. fee was 279.00 but the salesman added that amount to the dealer discount. That dealer now has a 579.00 fee
I have been thinking about a new vehicle and now I see fees of ( 579 - 785 - 399 - 489 - 698 ). Plus some I look at have dealer added nonsense on top of that. Maybe if they were all with a few dollars of each other it might not be as annoying.
Dealer fees = additional profit
These are ways to advertise a car online for lower than you actually will pay.
Some websites, like CarGurus add that into the price they show.
In many states the doc fee as it’s more regularly known is capped, in WA currency it’s $200 but our Ford dealer only wants tax, title, and registration on top of the sales price. With a recent case before the ftc dealers are supposed to include the doc fee online.
How macmulkin in mew Hampshire does it while selling new corvettes at msro or less
This is part of why many people intensely dislike buying a new car . . . ?
Good luck @VOLVO-V70
It’s all just a numbers game. Just like the independent auto shop down the street. Once upon a time there was parts and labor, and maybe sublet like towing or machine shop.
But now you have waste disposal fees, shop supplies, shipping and receiving fees, 3% credit card processing, etc. I was once on the bandwagon for that stuff, but eventually I realized many of my customers just wanted one final number, so I increased my labor rate and parts markup to absorb all those costs.
New vehicle delivery specialist and technology specialists = sales department expenses.
With the growing complexity of vehicles during the last 20 years, there are people on staff to assist customers in turning off unwanted features like Lane Keep Assist or to teach customers how to place a phone call from within a vehicle or streaming music from a phone.
Ironically, they buy so many new cars.
Yeah I dislike buying a new car but we decided just to order a new Buick and be don3 with it. Surprise surprise, the Gm dealer doesn’t sell Buicks anymore. Second dealer down th3 road doesn’t either. I guess it was Mary’s plan to eliminate dealers thst didn’t want to pay for her ev vision. So we’ll see what the metro folks have but kinda wondering about Toyota or something. No wonder these peopl3 are losing sales.
Buick halved the number of dealers to make the remaining ones more profitable, at least that was the official line. Also to eliminate dealers that couldn’t or wouldn’t upgrade to sell evs. Our dealer and one 25mi away kept Chevy and sell the ev’s dropped Buick. Our dealer you could have parked a Gmc,Buick, Cadillac, and Chevy next to each other if you wanted.
It wasn’t just GM. Stellantis also dropped a lot of dealerships that didn’t sell large quantities. Near me, there was a family-run Chrysler/Jeep dealership that the locals love. They’re surviving as a Massey-Ferguson tractor dealer, and by repairing their customers’ old Chryslers and Jeeps
