The ad in this morning's paper, in Hyannis, MA, by the local Toyota-Scion dealer, offers a $500 discount on any new Scion. Last time I went by they had one xB and several xAs in stock.

 

what is their website?

 

shorberg'

website is HYANNIS SCION

 

are they allowed to offer incentives like that? not that i think it's bad, but doesn't that conflict with 'pure pricing'?

 

Clair Scion did that too... Its a Scion "sponsored" thing to help dealers get rid of their overstock...

 

Usually any leverage the dealership has is the so-called "documentation fee" which can run anywhere from a couple hundred to 900.

 

ah yes. ok that makes sense.

 

Dealer here is giving a $300 gift card for parts.

 

a dealer is free to set their own pricing on everything. you can sellit for whatever you want as long as it is the same for everyone, and posted on your website and in the showroom. we could charge $50 grand for xB's as long as all the xB's we sell are $50,000

 

from what i heard a dealership can lose their privilage of selling scions because of something whatever. so unless its a scion thing. well u kno

 

no, dealerships can lose 30% of their allocation for being in breach of compliance with the scion dealer covenant. this includes the pure price element which only says that the dealer must charge everyone the same price for the same thing, i/e/ cars, accessories, interest rates(per credit score) etc. we can charge whatever we want, as long as we post it in the showroom and on the website and make sure everyone gets the asme deal, be it more or less than MSRP. Scion legally cannot tell a dealer what to sell a car for, but they can regulate how it is sold. this is how pure price came around. almost all dealers use the MSRP as the price to sell cars for, but some choose to sell it for another price, and as long as they sell it to EVERYONE for that same price for whatever designated timeframe they choose, they are good to go!

 

If it is indeed overstock sale how much were the original ones sold for "not the discounted $500 off ehh"
So everyone didn't get the same price now follow!

 

no no no , lol.

basically it has to be "all automatic xB's cost $xx,xxx from such and such date to such and such date" . then anyone who buys a car from this day to this day gets it for this price, make sense?

 

but then... that would let them just say that today xB's will be sold for 14k and the next day they're sold for 16k.

doent seem very fair imo

 

i agree........ dosent seem fair but hey life is never fair.....lol

 

basicly they are taking some of the tacked on fees off of the end price of the car, IE shipping, paperwork fees, sales tax, if they allowed you to choose where that $500 off went, I'd choose taxes every time, mine were 1700 for a base model with cruise

 

as long as all of their advertising, websites and prices in the showroom match, they can charge whatever they fell like. technically they could negotiate on anything if they really wanted to but would be penalized by scion if they caught it in an audit . . .

 

another dealer scam

 

technically I do believe that the dealerships have to sell you the scions for the price that the scion website gives you