Who got the best deal on there YARIS?

[Toryn]

Originally Posted by otterhere

That's a ridiculously low price for a fully loaded '09; just how did you manage that???

I shopped around and made the dealers bid against themselves via email...it took about two days and really pissed off the sales people, but once I made it clear they couldn't get me into the dealership without a firm bid through email they were willing to work with me.

After about 2 days, one dealership got frustrated enough of counter-bidding to call me up and ask me what I wanted to buy the car...I made the offer and they took it.

Not to hijack the thread but here was a typical exchange with a sales guy I mentally called " Slick Willy":

Wed 11/19/08 10:31 AM

Hi XXX,

I'd like your quote for two different packages:

1) 2009, 3 door Yaris, manual with the powerpackage
2) 2009 3 door Yaris, with the allweather/convenience package.

The best quote I currently have is 14,400 for the powerpackage and 13485 for the allweather/convenience package.

Best,

Drew

Here is his first reply to me...

Wed 11/19/08 11:41 AM

Fantastic come on back in when you are ready to put down a deposit. I can match or beat your best numbers, but I won't play the best price game on email. Open until 9pm tonight. Can only guarantee that you will leave happy.

XXX XXXX
636 XXX XXXX

Since he was trying to play games and didn't include a quote, I just ignored him. He knew that I was in the market since I had test driven a Yaris at his dealership though...

About 2 hours later, Slick Willy wrote me back....

Wed 11/19/08 1:49 PM

I wasn't in the office earlier. I am now and have access to all the figures.

Again the point I was trying to make is that we aren't messing around here at Pappas Toyota. We are going to make you the best deal possible. Now with access to the figures I can again tell you that we will beat the prices that you have received.

without the power package I can beat them by $63, 13422 is invoice price and that is what you will pay

with power pack, I can beat them by $169, 14231 is your price

When can you come back in?

Thanks again

I ended up using that quote to bring down the price on the powerpackage further and then used the $400 from Toyota's graduate discount to get the powerpackage for 12,800 (13,600 with dealer delivery fees though...).

He kept calling me, texting and emailing me...a real high pressure attempt at selling (I'm in a PhD program and look young so they thought they could get me in and screw me at the dealership...) We had this exchange of emails...

> Did you find a car yet?
>
>
> Wanted to know if we are still in the running or if I should delete
> you from my files
>
>
> XXXX

Since he had been trying to play games for the last three days and I knew that he was trying to be slick I sent back:

> Hi XXX,
>
> You were about two hours too late when you finally gave me a number
> and I left to buy the Yaris from another dealer.
>
> Thanks for your followup though,
>
> Drew

Which was true, I had left on the 19th to buy the car a few minutes after using his quote to lower the price on the powerpackage. He replied...

I guess that means you paid a little more huh?
Oh well

enjoy the Toyota

XXX

Not quite...I'm glad that the other dealer beat his offer...I met the guy in person and he was an ass.

The moral of the story for me was that it pays to play the dealers against each other and not let them pressure you...shopping around for the right salesman was also important as the one we eventually did business with dealt with us fairly at all the other stages of the transaction (trade-in, financing etc).