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6/22/2005
15:18:39
|  RE: Anti-spin dif?
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05 Dak,
Cost is the name of the game.
If we use your $235 as a cost, and add no additiional labor to the installation, extend that over, say 50,000 trucks, the additional cost is $11,750,000. No carmaker is going to eat that level of profit-the cost will be added to the truck, plus a profit margin.
Most buyers go to the bottom line in their pruchase, and the addition of $250 will scare some buyers away. That is why when a dealership buys a vehicle, it will option it out to sell fast at a good profit margin. Rarely will a dealership fully option out a rig-it is rarely profitable for them to do so. 'Inventory Turns' is the way of survival in business, and the more one can 'turn', aka volume, the cheaper the price can become, resulting in more sales,... .
If you can afford to wait a bit, and plan to keep the vehicle a long time, many times it is worth the special order. If you negotiate a good price of the front end, aka agreement to pruchase contract, the wait can be worth the long range fun. The only thing that becomes an issue at the delivery time is the 'value' of your trade. Trades are a profit center for dealerships, so if you can sell your present rig privately, the deal becomes cleaner, and you can come out a bit ahead to cover the aggrivation of selling your vehicle. If you still owe on your present vehicle, and are not 'upside-down', the lendor will facilitate in the pay-off and getting the title to the new owner. If you are, in fact, upside-down in the note, expect to hand out cash to the lendor to make up the deficit.
Long response, but hope this explains a bit why we rarely get exactly what we want from the lot,...
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Subject: Anti-spin dif?