This is Insane!!!

[Wanted33]

I don't know anything about the current market for this car, but dealers are not greedy just because they have a seemingly very high price on a car. Either they will sell the car at that price or they won't. They may have to accept less if they want to sell it. The market is the market.

If you owned this car and could sell it for that price, you would be an idiot not to take it. You wouldn't consider yourself greedy, or a bad person, because you didn't sell it to a buyer for less money. You would take as much as you thought the market would pay you for it.

edit: I guess most people selling their own cars should be accused of being greedy because most will price it above the current market in hopes of getting someone to pay that price, but then fully expecting to have to negotiate it down with a potential buyer.

I gotta agree here. This Republic runs on capitalism. It's the dealers car, he can ask anything he wants for it, and then it's up to the consumer to decide. Is it greedy, yes. Especially this one Jesse posted. Is it wrong, no.

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[Schmack B]

i completely agree that if someone owns something they can ask whatever price they want for it. If u can get it , get it. This absolutely should not be true for car dealers. Me and you cannot go to ford and buy a car directly from them for MSRP or invoice, only a dealer can. They paid less than msrp for it, but can ask whatever they want for it before its available for the general puplic to buy. BULLSHIT. They should be held to a standard.

So if i build a gt500 right now on the B&P and send it to my dealer to be sent for build, the price of the car i built is null in void and the dealler can hold my car hostage if i dont give him 50 grand more than the price Ford agreed to sell it to me for. I did not agree to buy a car from John Doe, just John Doe Ford as a representative for Ford. BULLSHIT. This should not be allowed to happen.

 

[Schmack B]

For the people that don't think this is wrong, what if every dealer in the country got together and said from now on every car we sell will be at 500% above MSRP no matter what. according to u this would be perfectly legal and Moral, and u would have no problem paying 120k for a Chevy Cruz because thats what the owner wants for it.

 

[DrewBronc21]

For the people that don't think this is wrong, what if every dealer in the country got together and said from now on every car we sell will be at 500% above MSRP no matter what. according to u this would be perfectly legal and Moral, and u would have no problem paying 120k for a Chevy Cruz because thats what the owner wants for it.

no, that’s actually illegal Price fixing.

 

[JimmyDean]

one down the street from me has a 50k markup as well. w t h.

 

[mpeugeot]

Saw the exact same thing in Georgia on Saturday. $50k markup.

In 2012, I paid less than the dealer markup for a 1997 Ferrari F355 Spider 6 speed. I would still do it again today, rather than pay a $50k markup on the GT500 (which yes has better performance and reliability than the Ferrari in every way). The GT500 is a cool car, but it's not $150k cool!

 

[kodiakisland]

Wow. The markup for Shelby GT 500s is less than $20K here. The local dealer has two sitting in the showroom, one for $122K and the other for $103K.

 

[Tdifonzo]

Imagine spending $150k on a Mustang instead of an Acura NSX, Audi R8, or basically any other $150k car. Lol

 

[abe]

For the people that don't think this is wrong, what if every dealer in the country got together and said from now on every car we sell will be at 500% above MSRP no matter what. according to u this would be perfectly legal and Moral, and u would have no problem paying 120k for a Chevy Cruz because thats what the owner wants for it.

That would be illegal. Colluding together to fix prices is 100% illegal and wrong.

 

[BrentC]

That would be illegal. Colluding together to fix prices is 100% illegal and wrong.

Yep. Anti-trust laws exist to prevent this very occurrence from happening.

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