Canadian 1997 pricing (was: 104 octane boost)

From: Stephen Pchajek (swpc@gwl.ca)
Date: Wed Oct 02 1996 - 15:55:27 EDT


Would you share what you know about Canadian pricing with us, please?

At 08:55 1996-10-02 PDT, you wrote:

>BUT, more important than that, I couldn't wait until the 97 Dakota's arrive
>in Victoria. It's at least two weeks before the dealers (so they say!) get
>to see them. My wife was in Vancouver last week and had a good look at one,
>so yesterday, I ordered mine through our local auto broker:
>
>1997 white 4x4 clubcab, V8, auto, SLT.
>
>I should know in a few weeks when to expect delivery.
>
>It's interesting, out of the three dealers that I approached with exactly
>what I wanted (using the WWW Kelly Blue Book codes ... which are the same
>for the Canadian model), only one was prepared to give me a price. Once got
>all hostile, gave me his dealer cost (with some errors) and suggested that I
>make an offer when I was ready to buy. The other (from Vancouver),
>contacted through the web, said he didn't have the price books, but would
>soon get back to me. It's amazing that these guys can sell cars at all!
>The one price that I got from a dealer was signicantly higher that the auto
>broker, plus, it was only from the salesman, which means they're not
>committed to it.

=====
Steve

 



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Jun 20 2003 - 12:07:25 EDT