how much did you get off yur g sedan with premium pkg? anyone buy it in halifax or ottawa?

 

Bought my coupe in Halifax last May. The dealer doesn't discount much as there is no other dealer within 600-700 miles.

 

My friend paid invoice plus a 12-er of Molson and 2 quarts of Maple Syrup.

 

Just threaten to go to that dealer 600-700 miles away, I did. It got me $1852 off.

 

we are just 3 hours from halifax, so should we phone them up and give em an offer (1500$ off mayb...)then tell them we'll go to ottawa if they dont accept...first we gotta sell our damn '99 honda accord....asking 14,800$..... dealer only offered 12,500 on trade

 

That's pretty good.
I don't make threats I don't plan to keep. I actually know both the owners and sales management as some of my best customers so I felt it inappropriate to haggle and I didn't have to anyhow. I'm very happy with the first offer they extended to me.

 

You shouldn't have any trouble getting $1500 off if they know you're a serious player. Ideally you could do a convenience deal where the buyer of your car privately buys from O'Regans so you save paying the tax on that amount because of trade in. I did that with our '99 TL since they wanted to give us around 14.5 and we sold for $18.5last May.
$12,500 is actually not bad if you're saving tax on that as that amounts to 1875 which is close to the 2300 difference you're looking for. So unless you can find someone to do a convenience deal it's a no brainer saving you a lot of headaches. In fact anything over $12,925 through the convenience deal gives you more than the $14800 you want because of the tax savings.

Good luck

 

we have plans to put the G sale, and used honda sale through the books at our local honda dealer on pei, so the infiniti dealer sells to honda dealer then to us....so we only have to pay pei taxes...just where to but it ottawa or halifax.....we're going to make an offer to o'regans soon...

 

I planned on executing the threat. The dealership 600-700 miles away was going to truck me the car, which was an additional $300 dollars out of their pocket.

 

That's cool.

My post explains why I didn't bother nickel & diming, or worse buy elsewhere to jeopardize my client relationship.

 

I understand, I didn't want to buy elsewhere and have a strained relationship for maintenance or warranty work.

But...

They would only do $500 off take it or leave it, knowing they are the only dealership in town. Quote: "They are moving so fast we don't need to move on the price". $500 -> $1850 isn't nickle and diming, IMO.

 

Yeah it's a shame they take that attitude but it doesn't surprise me. I guess no competition will do that to you. I can understand your feeling since they only offered you $500 off which isn't much; so you needed to bring in some heavier artillery with the other dealer option.
On the nickel and diming don't take it the wrong way as it was a reference really to me and not you. I agree that another $1350 is worth negotiating on since they took so little off to begin with. Fortunately likely because I knew them, they offered me a good deal to start and I took it as opposed to even haggling at all so that's what I meant. You had to do what you felt was right for your situation. As I said before that's cool.
Enjoy the G.

 

$12,500 is actually not bad if you're saving tax on that as that amounts to 1875 which is close to the 2300 difference you're looking for. So unless you can find someone to do a convenience deal it's a no brainer saving you a lot of headaches. In fact anything over $12,925 through the convenience deal gives you more than the $14800 you want because of the tax savings.

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15% tax in Canada. Ouch, eh?

 

15% tax in Canada. Ouch, eh?[/QUOTE]

It's different for each provinces just like you have for the states but we have the federal portion of 8% as standard and then the provincial part can vary although 15 points is the norm. Alberta has no provincial tax. My province has 7% for total of 15%. We're taxed to death here whether it's income, sales, gas,licenses whatever.