New Negotiation Strategy - UPDATED

[Judge Rufus]

From this thread: New Negotiation Strategy (which was closed due to hijack by a departed member)

I'm going to wait until after the B&P is up and have configured about 50 variations and then settled on my top two, which will likely either be a fully loaded Badlands or Wildtrak. Then I'm going to my local dealer and tell them that they either come down to "invoice" and limited fees (similar pricing to what would have been with X-plan) or I'm switching to one of the longer distance options of Invoice less $1,000 or more.

The extra $1,000 will cover whatever logistics I will end up using to get my Bronco to where it needs to end up.

I'm currently in East Texas, but am likely moving to Colorado Springs next Springs. So, I can either jump on the Texas buy-in or the Granger/Colorado group.

Paying MSRP isn't in my plan.

In the interest of sharing, here's where I stand currently. I was in Colorado (Denver area) this past weekend visiting my son, his wife and grandson. My wife and I are likely moving to Colorado early next year.

I needed to get out of the house for a few hours and dropped by a couple of Ford dealers and to make my pitch. One, flat out threw down the line that they weren't sure how they were going to price the Bronco, but nothing below MSRP. The other one listened to my pitch. They are a large multistate dealer, and from posts by other 6G users, one of their sister dealerships in another state have been open to negotiation. They ultimately agreed to pricing at X-Plan with the presentation of a PIN, even though they understand that the Bronco is not X-Plan eligible. This includes limiting the dealer fees consistent with X-Plan pricing. I've already moved my reservation. They are not advertising this price, so I will not be including the name of the dealer. But am very happy to get what I wanted to achieve.

If you are still struggling to get where you want, there is still time and dealers are willing to negotiate.

Good luck.

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[EvlNvrDys]

From this thread: New Negotiation Strategy (which was closed due to hijack by a departed member)



In the interest of sharing, here's where I stand currently. I was in Colorado (Denver area) this past weekend visiting my son, his wife and grandson. My wife and I are likely moving to Colorado early next year.

I needed to get out of the house for a few hours and dropped by a couple of Ford dealers and to make my pitch. One, flat out threw down the line that they weren't sure how they were going to price the Bronco, but nothing below MSRP. The other one listened to my pitch. They are a large multistate dealer, and from posts by other 6G users, one of their sister dealerships in another state have been open to negotiation. They ultimately agreed to pricing at X-Plan with the presentation of a PIN, even though they understand that the Bronco is not X-Plan eligible. This includes limiting the dealer fees consistent with X-Plan pricing. I've already moved my reservation. They are not advertising this price, so I will not be including the name of the dealer. But am very happy to get what I wanted to achieve.

If you are still struggling to get where you want, there is still time and dealers are willing to negotiate.

Good luck.

That's great you were able to find a deal. Almost every dealer we've talked to so far in NJ and even Eastern PA. says no way anyone is selling below MSRP... And absolutely nothing at x plan price since Ford killed that.

Goes to show the type of a-hole dealers we have out this way.

 

[coolrain]

From this thread: New Negotiation Strategy (which was closed due to hijack by a departed member)



In the interest of sharing, here's where I stand currently. I was in Colorado (Denver area) this past weekend visiting my son, his wife and grandson. My wife and I are likely moving to Colorado early next year.

I needed to get out of the house for a few hours and dropped by a couple of Ford dealers and to make my pitch. One, flat out threw down the line that they weren't sure how they were going to price the Bronco, but nothing below MSRP. The other one listened to my pitch. They are a large multistate dealer, and from posts by other 6G users, one of their sister dealerships in another state have been open to negotiation. They ultimately agreed to pricing at X-Plan with the presentation of a PIN, even though they understand that the Bronco is not X-Plan eligible. This includes limiting the dealer fees consistent with X-Plan pricing. I've already moved my reservation. They are not advertising this price, so I will not be including the name of the dealer. But am very happy to get what I wanted to achieve.

If you are still struggling to get where you want, there is still time and dealers are willing to negotiate.

Good luck.

Because Car dealers don't want to sell more cars....

 

[BrianBormes]

If you tell us the name of the dealer, I will switch right now. It can only help them out!

 

[SamG]

Knowing owners of dealers personally - I tend to dislike them all.
Granger is still the best deal available and I will make that 600 mile drive to save an extra few hundred mainly out of principle

 

[Incognito]

That's great you were able to find a deal. Almost every dealer we've talked to so far in NJ and even Eastern PA. says no way anyone is selling below MSRP... And absolutely nothing at x plan price since Ford killed that.

Goes to show the type of a-hole dealers we have out this way.

+1

Dealers here in Phoenix act like I owe them a paid weekend vacation in Vegas, with free hookers and blow included.


@Judge Rufus , glad you got your deal, but you should let long time CO posters PM for the info.
You are only helping them.
And the dealer will make more of a % on holdbacks as the sold units grows.

 

[Heffe66413]

Knowing owners of dealers personally - I tend to dislike them all.
Granger is still the best deal available and I will make that 600 mile drive to save an extra few hundred mainly out of principle

I can always respect a man with principle!

 

[Incognito]

I can always respect a man with principle!

If you don't like my principals, I have others. ?

 

[BlueBronco]

If you tell us the name of the dealer, I will switch right now. It can only help them out!

The problem with publicly naming a dealership is that there are other direct competitors that lurk on here and they don't seem to have a problem running interference or trying to discredit that dealership or their offer. We have seen it happen out in the open on this forum and we have seen the evidence of it happening behind the scenes. Just ask the boys in NO LA, they found a dealership to play ball and a competitor of theirs cried to their state's auto dealership association just to cause trouble. Best to request the desired info in a direct message.

To the OP, glad you were able to negotiate yourself a deal.

 

[Dads_bronze_bronco]

From this thread: New Negotiation Strategy (which was closed due to hijack by a departed member)

They ultimately agreed to pricing at X-Plan with the presentation of a PIN, even though they understand that the Bronco is not X-Plan eligible. This includes limiting the dealer fees consistent with X-Plan pricing.

Nice job!

 

[lobbs611]

Oh boy, I didn't realize that original post went another 10 pages deep after I last posted on it. Good read lol.

I've been shopping Granger's deal amongst my local dealers. All have balked at coming off MSRP so far.

 

[Headsong]

Just realize that playing nice might get you more than being a PITA. SOOOOOO many people are PITA now, it's really sad. I'm in biz and just fired a bunch of them from being my clients anymore. Just not worth it. So if you become one of those, realize that that dealership has plenty of others to choose from. They have want you want. Telling them you love them will work better than demands.

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