I bought a 997 last week from a Porsche dealer (wired payment). The dealer is 650 miles (on the same coast) from me. They agreed as part of the deal to pay for the shipping (and make the arrangements). What is a reasonable amount of time to ship a car from the dealership to my house? Anyone care to chime in? I have no experience in this so I want to be fair and have proper expectations. The dealer just sent me an email saying he is sorry, the transport company hasn't called him back in the last day and that usually the customer arranges for shipping and now he knows why....

 

Ot took 5 days to get my car from ny to Boca raton fl. It depends ifnthey have to fill the transport or it is a single hauler

 

fly there and drive it home

 

+1^

you would have been wise to negotiate the price down and pay for shipping it yourself..they will ship it the cheapest way possible which will take more time and not insure you will get the car undamaged

 

Listen to TT Surgeon. Grab a cheap one way flight and pick it up. You will not regret driving 650 miles. Picked mine up in Atlanta and drove it 2200 miles cross country to the Rockies. Last month drove the car from Montana to Phoenix, AZ and I had a smile on my face most of the 1,471 miles with a couple of hours sleep interruption...

 

Transports are kind of funny. They want a full trailer and sometimes it will take a week or more to even pick it up depending on where the car is and where it has to go.

Either get a cheap airline ticket or a local rental car and go to pick it up and drive home. It will probably end up being cheaper anyway.

--CC

 

+1 for fly and drive. I just did Cleveland, OH to Houston, TX (~1200 miles) in a day and a half. Very fun drive!!

 

Plus depending on when your car is loaded, as they fill the trailer, they move the cars around...and depending on where your car is on the trailer may determine when it's offloaded - LIFO or maybe even first on, last off. Go get it.

 

Not sure, what they mean by 'customer usually arranges for shipping' I purchased mine from San Diego and the dealer arranged everything, I only got a call from the shipping company to tell me the time of delivery. From San Diego to Colorado (~1000 miles) took 3 days. I would assume it's quicker for you.

 

Definitely fly there and drive it home. Instead of having them take care of the shipping cost, have them cover your flight charges and gas to make it home. Now thats a win/win for both.