definitely a lot to think about and some good rationale for sure.
I have had some really crazy experiences wheeling and dealing with dealers over years and I was just like I straight up dont want to even think about the financial part but once. I hate how it interferes with the whole ordering delivery process. So I just came up with something I think was fair to both sides for their first car. the whole process is a big deal to me I remember a buddy of mine got the ship names our GTRs were on and we would track the whole journey. I love stuff like that.
and talking about sight unseen....I never really thought about it before but yeah think every new car ive ever owned was sight unseen besides the cars I had during high school. its bit of a leap of faith for sure but have never had buyers regret yet.
My 2003 Z when it came in it had the light gray interior even though I wanted black. It was a car the dealer ordered but I took it any way as they were hard to get right at first. Now I did technically see my 2007 NISMO before I bought it.. the dealer said they got it off the truck and I went just to look at it with no real intentions of buying it. then I saw it was serial #33 as in "Z33" so I as like man this is a sign and I traded my 03 in on the spot for it pure impulse buy. i remember getting home with it and being excited but sort of sick to my stomach at the same time because I woke up that morning with no thought of getting a new car.
GTRs were a whole different saga and all 3 sight unseen. had to back out of the 09 from a dealer as they tried to charge $15K over at the last minute. ended up getting it for sticker from another dealer but there was a lot of greed on that car back in 2008. Got the 2012 black edition for about $5k off MSRP plus good money on a trade in ( long story the original one I ordered got destroyed in Japan during the Tsunami)
and then the 15 NISMO it was just an crazy story all together. because technically it was my car and not the dealers allocated car I could take delivery of it anywhere I wanted so the actual dealership literally only made like a $500 document fee on the whole thing ( plus some money on the resale of my 2012) but I bought the car for pure cost below invoice below everything just cost. I could never pull something like that off ever gain lol
I have had some really crazy experiences wheeling and dealing with dealers over years and I was just like I straight up dont want to even think about the financial part but once. I hate how it interferes with the whole ordering delivery process. So I just came up with something I think was fair to both sides for their first car. the whole process is a big deal to me I remember a buddy of mine got the ship names our GTRs were on and we would track the whole journey. I love stuff like that.
and talking about sight unseen....I never really thought about it before but yeah think every new car ive ever owned was sight unseen besides the cars I had during high school. its bit of a leap of faith for sure but have never had buyers regret yet.
My 2003 Z when it came in it had the light gray interior even though I wanted black. It was a car the dealer ordered but I took it any way as they were hard to get right at first. Now I did technically see my 2007 NISMO before I bought it.. the dealer said they got it off the truck and I went just to look at it with no real intentions of buying it. then I saw it was serial #33 as in "Z33" so I as like man this is a sign and I traded my 03 in on the spot for it pure impulse buy. i remember getting home with it and being excited but sort of sick to my stomach at the same time because I woke up that morning with no thought of getting a new car.
GTRs were a whole different saga and all 3 sight unseen. had to back out of the 09 from a dealer as they tried to charge $15K over at the last minute. ended up getting it for sticker from another dealer but there was a lot of greed on that car back in 2008. Got the 2012 black edition for about $5k off MSRP plus good money on a trade in ( long story the original one I ordered got destroyed in Japan during the Tsunami)
and then the 15 NISMO it was just an crazy story all together. because technically it was my car and not the dealers allocated car I could take delivery of it anywhere I wanted so the actual dealership literally only made like a $500 document fee on the whole thing ( plus some money on the resale of my 2012) but I bought the car for pure cost below invoice below everything just cost. I could never pull something like that off ever gain lol