[DeTomaso] NPC - Truck Shopping

Fri Jan 25 00:25:16 EST 2008

Works the same as any other business, the broker buys X number of cars per
year, every XYZ dealer wants to be his source because a repeat customer (
the broker ) is a good thing, the more he buys, the more they deal to keep
him coming back...cause he can always find another XYZ Brand dealer if they
fail to meet his expectations and allow the customer to save and for him to
make money.  The old bird in the hand story.

Michael not in Savannah right now

On Jan 24, 2008 10:37 PM, tony DiGiovanna <tonydigi at optonline.net> wrote:

> So.....were any of these broker sales on new cars?
> I called the local listing for a car broker - used cars only.
> I can't really wrap my head around how there could be such a thing as a
> broker for new cars:  How could the franchise dealership network would
> ever
> stand for it?  Isn't the exclusive right to sell the factory product a
> primary tenant of any franchise retail contract?  It's kind of the basic
> points I'd say.  Even if so, it would seem like a broker was a dealer then
> and would have similar cost/profit structure as a dealer?  I also can't
> imagine a dealer selling cars to a broker with a discount sufficient for
> the
> broker to sell to me at a price lower than the dealer's retail price to
> me.
>
> This is difficult to comprehend.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> To: tonydigi at optonline.net; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC - Truck Shopping
>
>
>
>  In a message dated 1/22/08 18 31 30, tonydigi at optonline.net writes:
>
>
> > I'm shopping for a new V-8 Ford Sport Trac. Currently following the
> advise
> > on www.carbuyingtips.com.
> > Just checking if anyone has an inside track, like an uncle that owns a
> > dealership. Or any other related advise.
> >
>
> I'm not a new-car-buying kinda guy.   But several friends have utilized
> the
> services of a car broker, and have saved astounding amounts of money above
> and
> beyond the best possible internet deal available.
>
> I don't really understand exactly how it works, or rather, WHY it works.
> But these car broker dudes apparently do such volume business that they
> are
> afforded the opportunity to buy cars at a deep, deep discount.   You just
> go
> to
> them and tell them what you want, and how specific you are.   If you're
> flexible
> on color, or whatever, that gives them more wiggle room.   But you can be
> as
> exact as you like.
>
> Rick Moseley was very specific indeed.   He wanted a new Toyota pickup
> truck,
> a certain model, with certain features, and only in black.   He actually
> found one that suited his tastes locally.   The dealer wouldn't come down
> on
> price
> and was offering him peanuts for his trade-in (a very nice, also black and
> only a few years old Toyota pickup).
>
> So, Rick went to the broker.   The guy took down all his information and
> his
> wants, and went to work.   A couple of days later, the broker called him
> back
> and said he could get a truck that ticked all the right boxes, for X
> dollars,
> and would give him Y dollars for his trade-in.   As I recall, the broker
> price
> was at least 2-3 thousand dollars less than the dealer's 'best offer' and
> the
> trade-in on his old truck was higher too.   So of course Rick jumped at
> it.
>
> As it happens, the broker was delivering literally the same truck; he got
> it
> from the local dealer and handed it over to Rick.   And for his services
> he
> charges a flat fee, something like $500.   Money exceptionally well-spent!
>
> (Ironically, the day after Rick took delivery of the truck, the dealership
> phoned him, trying to reel him in to come back into the store and continue
> dealing on it--Rick had to (gleefully) announce that he was at that very
> moment the
> owner of the truck they were trying to sell him--and that he'd paid a hell
> of
> a lot less for it!)
>
> Look up 'auto broker' in your local yellow pages, then give one of them a
> call and see what he has to say!
>
> Mike
>
>
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