Given your low level of motivation you're doing the right thing by waiting. This current market requires a whole lot more from potential buyers. I'm hopeful that those paying ridiculous ADMs are doing so out of necessity rather than stupidity as sometimes you have no choice. You're lucky that you have options and are smart enough to exercise them.
In my case, a vehicle purchased out of state in Ohio was registered in that state with a one month temporary registration which cost me $35. Once home, I needed to re-register the vehicle in New York within the 30 day window. That was taken care of during a trip to the the DMV where I also needed to pay the New York sales tax. If not universal then close to it, sales tax is not due to the state of purchase but instead the state of residence.
Not necessarily. The paperwork is not eliminated, it's just somewhat different. The title still has to be transferred and the vehicle registered even if it is a temporary registration. While sales tax likely must be remitted by the buyer to his home state, the dealer no doubt must file some paperwork with his state as to why they are not remitting it. It might be possible to roll the sales tax into the financing with the dealer paying the buyer's home state, I cannot say since mine was a cash purchase.
I was going to buy a car in Georgia, and the (litteral) stealership was trying to add a doc fee to the price. Added on Doc fees are BANNED in Georgia! Says so right on their official state Consumers Affairs website! The advertised sales price must be the actually selling price of the car. They tried to ring me up for an extra $499! So, if they advertise a car at $15,000, then the finally selling price of the car must be $15,000. Not $15,000 plus tax, tag, and doc fees.
We have the same rules in Canada. Dealers cannot sell above the list price and addons are not allowed either. If a dealer here tries that you just need to contact the car companies head office and they will tell the dealer to remove the add on. It is ver y easy here in Canada to get any vehicle at list price.
Doc fees are not illegal in GA. It only matters if they advertise a specific vehicle VIN online or paper print that the advertised price must include this and not be added on when you get to the dealer to purchase that particular vehicle. It does not apply to anything else and a dealer can add the doc fee on ANY vehicle at their dealership lot or in transit on top of the selling price on ANY VIN not advertised online or in print to anyone coming to negotiate a car via email, telephone or in person. THAT is the actual fact.
That's almost exactly what I said. If the dealer advertises it at one price, then that's the price they are required to stick to. They cannot go in and add doc fees and other crap to that advertised price, and if they do and the state finds out about it, they can be fined $5,000.
Georgia law does not require the advertised price to include tax. title and registration. It would not even be possible to do that. Tax is variable depending on whether a buyer has a trade and what the trade value happens to be. Registration too--whether or not you are transferring plates and have a registration credit from a trade makes that variable as well.
If you paid the $799 on top of the advertised price, you got got. And the thing of it is, I'm sure the vast majority of people don't do their homework, and don't realize that this is the law, so the majority of stealerships do constantly get away with it.
Nope.... The car wasn't advertised in the first place. I found it on the web site, called and negotiated a deal. There isn't anything illegal about the dealer adding an admin fee. Just the way its done in Georgia. Same thing happened with my '20 Frontier. The fee varies from dealer to dealer but they all have one.
Except in a downturn/recession, then you'd be surprised how fast some of those fees disappear when they need to sell a car.
