BTW, I live close to Stoddard. I might be able to look at it for you if you are at a distance.

 

Stoddards just had their swap meet / car show last week end. the car is in the show room and i was looking at it. looks real nice. if you want me to stop by and have a closer look just let me know.

 

So the Stoddards sales team was willing to drop down to $60k WITHOUT the CPO... I guess they haven't CPO'd it yet. I told them $57,500 without CPO or $59,500 with CPO. My luck someone else will buy it but if it's me then it will be in the high 50's or no dice. Plenty of turbos to choose from nowadays.

 

It's probably been bouncing around because the dealerships are into it for too much money to begin with. Given this current TT market, it seems strange that they'd want to sit on a non-negotiable price point when faced with a viable potential buyer. These guys have mortgages too....and from what I've seen with some local Porsche dealerships is that there hasn't been too much action in the sales department.....the service departments seem to be providing the most income.

 

Dealers don't look at the prior history.... they've just acquired it, and no doubt they are getting alot of interest- phones ringing, emails flying. They think that SOMEONE will come up to their offer.

And they might.

But there are many to choose from. 59-60k cpo is a good price.

Room- check out the 'rules' on CPOing a car. I seem to recall that the dealer must make at 'cpo or not-cpo' decision within a certain number of days of acquiring the car? Something like that. Not sure if that matters in neotiating, I think they can off load it to an affiliate and back to their books to get around it anyway.

CPO costs them around $2500 I would guess- all of it pretty much the cost of the warranty with PCNA.

Good news is that fall comes early in Cleveland- once summer gets long, they will change their tune. When I bought mine in Wisconsin, the prospect of fall/winter triggered a price adjustment of dramatic proportions!

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