Dr.Duct_Mossburg
Active Member
I've been looking for a Raptor now for almost a year. On the hunt for an Avalanche, no accents, 802a, tech, moon, heated wheel and bench as qualifiers. I've found at least 10 that meet these criteria...I didn't buy new because (ironically) a ford parts driver drove into me and totalled my X5M and the settlement process was an 8-month nightmare so I was stuck in to getting used since I wanted AG and dealer allocations were mostly done. There always seems to be a caveat to the used ones. They're either at dealers that think they're worth more than they are and so they sit (like two I'm currently looking at) or they sell so damn fast I can't even get a deposit down (like one that I'm waiting for tomorrow to see if the guy comes through).
I was talking to a dealer where the guy flat out tells me after a few emails back and forth that essentially... he knows they're too high on it. He see's and understands the comps, but his sales manager won't let him budge on the price. They've had it since the first week of December. Seem's crazy to me that a dealer should allow $60k to be tied up to try and make an extra couple grand if some ol' stupid soul happens to walk across the lot.
Then you have the Koons Sterling Ford of the world that still has new 2017's on the lot because they're charging MSRP plus $10k still.
It's just crazy to me from a business mindset as to what these dealers are doing. It almost seems like they're either chasing that high of making a ton on mark up or that they've bought these trucks from other dealers or at auction so high and now the "willing to pay mark up" bubble has burst so they just sit there to avoid being a negative ROI.
Have a few irons in the fire... Lots of Avalanche's showing up on the market.
I was talking to a dealer where the guy flat out tells me after a few emails back and forth that essentially... he knows they're too high on it. He see's and understands the comps, but his sales manager won't let him budge on the price. They've had it since the first week of December. Seem's crazy to me that a dealer should allow $60k to be tied up to try and make an extra couple grand if some ol' stupid soul happens to walk across the lot.
Then you have the Koons Sterling Ford of the world that still has new 2017's on the lot because they're charging MSRP plus $10k still.
It's just crazy to me from a business mindset as to what these dealers are doing. It almost seems like they're either chasing that high of making a ton on mark up or that they've bought these trucks from other dealers or at auction so high and now the "willing to pay mark up" bubble has burst so they just sit there to avoid being a negative ROI.
Have a few irons in the fire... Lots of Avalanche's showing up on the market.
