Maryland dealer just asked for $10k over MSRP to build me a TRD PRO that they have allocated

Need a thread on crazy dealerships. Maryland dealer just asked for $10k over MSRP to build me a TRD PRO that they have allocated. I told him I just saw a Pro on the lot and a Capstone and several other Tundra hybrids in Virginia for MSRP and wasn't interested. He ran off to find the next sucker...

 

Sounds weird. That's the first I've heard about a dealer charging markups

 

Ya it’s been like that for years now lol

 

The solution is what? An educated buyer?

 

But bro its totally worth >MSRP. Just pay it

 

10k doesn't sound as bad as that Rav4 Prime at an Oakland dealer with 40k over MSRP, Listed at 95k last year...

 

Bell Road Toyota in Phoenix was chatting $20-30k for the TRD Pro at one point. I post about them whenever I can. Scumbags.

 

Toyota corporate’s fault. They love taking all that positive equity that you’ve built up in your old tundra/Toyota when you trade it in for a new one. So new gens get unnecessary $15k msrp increases and f/u markups

 

The solution is (was) to preorder. I waited 13 months for my 22 TRD PRO and paid MSRP to the penny.

Demand > Supply

 

Good old Capitalism! Dealers will charge it if people will pay it. If enough people won't pay it, prices fall. That simple.

 

Have more money than the next guy who wants it.

 

I had a dealer in Alabama tell me it was a $5000 deposit to get on the list, and then a $10,000 market adjustment because I was not in state. If I lived in Alabama, then it was only $5000. If the vehicle hit their lot, then i did not want it, then I would lose the deposit. Before then, they would refund it. They said they had been burned several times. Like that vehicle I decided I would not want would not sell in 24-72 hours if they put it on their website as available.

I told them they are too greedy.

 

lol

 

Fomo pay it lol just move on everyone it will change

 

It’s still kind of funny how buyers have been conditioned to think MSRP is now a good deal.

 

Right? In 2020 I paid almost $9K less than MSRP….and was told it was a “good” deal - and mine wasn’t the best deal I’d seen! LOL

 

Pretty simple but in Canada we like to ban and make everything illegal.

 

https://www.tundras.com/threads/202...e-website-www-markups-org.99185/#post-2527956

 

That’s crazy.

 

This guy wants $10k over MSRP for a 23 pro. Pfffft.

Steve Jaeger
Internet Sales Manager
Koons Arlington Toyota

 

The only half saving grace is trade in/private party values for trade ins are so much higher than they would normally be so it sort of equals out the bottom line. If you don't have something to trade, you are just screwed lol.

 

well from what i have seen, trade in values have tank in the last few months. mine went from 42.5k to 40.5k and now its .... kbb lookup .... 37.5k as of today.

and we have only put 1100 miles since nov-4-2022.

 

No thanks, I'll take a freer market any day. No one is required to buy a vehicle from x, y, or z dealership that's marking up prices, and there are plenty of dealers selling at MSRP, and even a few willing to drop some of their fees for good customers, inconveniences, etc.

 

ya trade values are dropping like a rock.

 

It’s what got us here in the first place. And wait till the market drops, is dropping and they are left holding a huge negative equity. Now those that traded a 2 year old truck for the new shiny toy has to wait or pay the negative.