Fair Price for Dealer Trade for Color Preference?

[robinb]

I'm ready to buy my car very soon. My local dealer has a Mazda5 configured the way I want it, but it is a black car and I don't care for black cars. They said that they could get a green, a red or a carbon gray car from another dealer for me. I've cheked the Mazda inventory site and these cars appear to be from out of state. Usually, I would consider the cost of a dealer trade to be part of getting my business. However, we have the S-Plan so the cost of the car is fixed and the dealer is not making a whole lot on the sale. Is there a fair price for a dealer trade?

FWIW, we are also willing to go to other non-local dealers that have cars with colors we like. However, I would probably prefer to stay local rather than drag my trade-in everywhere.

 

[HFD45]

find the car w/ the packages you want at another dealership & just have the dealership you want to deal with transfer it...thats how i recieve my MSP. Saw it at one dealership didnt wanna do business with them, so i went to another & had it shipped up, no problem. Dealers will do anything NOT to lose your business to another branch

edit: I live in New York & my car i found in Pittsburgh, so search around its out there waiting for ya

 

[Puckpimp71]

IIRC we paid our d-trade driver $100-$150 for most trades. If you're set against black, then don't settle. That kind of money is cheap to get something you want and will be happy to drive for a few years.

 

[HFD45]

If you're set against black, then don't settle.

amen...dont settle for something you honestly dont like

 

[robinb]

IIRC we paid our d-trade driver $100-$150 for most trades. If you're set against black, then don't settle. That kind of money is cheap to get something you want and will be happy to drive for a few years.

Thanks . I "settled" on my last two cars because they were used and such good deals that I felt I didn't have a color choice (silver and very dark blue). So, $100 - $150 is a fair amount to pay for a dealer transfer? I don't know if they're going to ask me to pay but I want to be prepared ahead of time. I really don't mind paying a bit more for my color choice as I plan on driving this car for many years to come.

 

[Puckpimp71]

As long as the drive can be made in a day (round trip) I think it's fair. See what the dealer tells you about trading out for a color you'd prefer. Understand, too that unless they flat bed it (which can push the price up substantially) thet there's going to be a few miles.

 

[meackerman]

like anything with a dealer the price for the trade is negotable. Don't give them the $100-150, make them bargain for it. When we were buying our Honda, a couple of years ago, we got everything settled, and they then told us there was a $200 charge for the dealer trade, we asked them where they were getting it from, and then got up and started to walk out. The $200 was forgotten pretty quickly when they realized we were going to make the drive to the other dealer ourselves.

So in the end you might have to pay it, but don't think it's not negotable.

 

[was98strat]

I'm ready to buy my car very soon. My local dealer has a Mazda5 configured the way I want it, but it is a black car and I don't care for black cars. They said that they could get a green, a red or a carbon gray car from another dealer for me. I've cheked the Mazda inventory site and these cars appear to be from out of state. Usually, I would consider the cost of a dealer trade to be part of getting my business. However, we have the S-Plan so the cost of the car is fixed and the dealer is not making a whole lot on the sale. Is there a fair price for a dealer trade?

FWIW, we are also willing to go to other non-local dealers that have cars with colors we like. However, I would probably prefer to stay local rather than drag my trade-in everywhere.

Dealer trade is irrelevant to your purchase. If your dealer does not have the car you want in the colour you want. It's up to them to negotiate with the other dealer for the car. This is done completely seperatly from your purchase negotiations. At least that's how it was when I purchase my 5. We negotiated a price ( dealer didn't have ANY 5's on the lot, they're really fast sellers in Canada) He had to trade another dealer for one that was in there inventory. No price adjustments or negotiations occured from my end to get the vehicle from another dealer.

Unless the vehicle has milage on it. It doesn't matter what dealer it came from. Your only concern is that it is delivered to the dealer you negotiated with.

Pierre

 

[DurhamProPhoto]

Hey Piere,
What part of Ajax are you from? I am above the 401 off Westney.
My 5 is a Carbon Grey what is yours?

Any way back on topic, my dealer had to have mine shipped from
Vancouver, which if you know Canadian geography is on the west
coast. Ajax is near the middle of the country near Toronto, and it
did not cost me any more than the negotiated price. It is IMHO
up to the dealer to get you the vehicle that you want.

Cheers,
Robin

 

[was98strat]

Hey Piere,
What part of Ajax are you from? I am above the 401 off Westney.
My 5 is a Carbon Grey what is yours?

Any way back on topic, my dealer had to have mine shipped from
Vancouver, which if you know Canadian geography is on the west
coast. Ajax is near the middle of the country near Toronto, and it
did not cost me any more than the negotiated price. It is IMHO
up to the dealer to get you the vehicle that you want.

Cheers,
Robin

PM'd you!

Currently I've Tinted and I'm trying to fit a sub of some sort into the interior! The factory radio is too thin sounding for my taste!

 

[Puckpimp71]

you missed the part where this poster is s-plan. There's no price to negotiate. That's the point of S-plan. Anyway, they may try to charge for the trade if it's a long distance away.

 

[was98strat]

you missed the part where this poster is s-plan. There's no price to negotiate. That's the point of S-plan. Anyway, they may try to charge for the trade if it's a long distance away.

Sorry I don't see the difference. The original poster wants to purchase a Mazda 5 in a specific colour. The dealer doesn't have one in sotck. It's the dealers issue to deliver the vehicle to the customer. Whether the dealer gets it from another dealer or orders it from the factory is not the clients issue. It's up to he dealer to make arrangements to deliver the vehicle the customer wants. Maybe you guys buy cars differently in the States from Canada. But If I walk into a dealership and want a car in a specific colour, the dealer is going to get it for me, Whether they order from the factory or can get it from another dealer is not my issue. now if they offer a substantial discount for take aonther colour that they happen to have on the lot I might consider that, but that's different issue. To me it sounds like the dealer doesn't really want the business.

Of course Mazda 5 sales seem to be much better in canada. At least in TO, trying to even find a 5 on the lot is a bit of a challenge!