I bought my truck through the Internet too but I used autobytel.com instead
of carpoint. I e-mailed my request on Saturday afternoon and got a call
from a local dealer Monday morning at my office. He didn't have what I
wanted in stock but called me back in the afternoon after finding one at
another dealer. He faxed me the invoice and offered me the truck at cost
plus the other dealer's holdback. I faxed him a credit card for a deposit
and the next day the truck was in.
I never actually met anyone at the dealer until I went to pick up the truck.
Roger
'98 SLT CC 4X4 Light Driftwood 5.2 Auto
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Steve
> Lambert
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 1:30 PM
> To: Dakota List
> Subject: DML: Re: Swimming among the sharks...
>
>
> >The sharks I am referring to are the Car Dealers! (They all want to be
> >my friend, then stab me repeatedly in the back. Or hand me a jar of
> >Vaseline and ak me to grab my ankles!)
>
> I've bought more than 30 cars in the past 30 years, and this too has
> always been my experience... but when I bought my '99 Dakota last month I
> went to www.carpoint.com where I was referred to an area Dodge dealer. I
> don't know if every carpoint.com dealer's policy is the same, but I was
> treated courteously, immediately shown the invoice and offered the truck
> straight out at $149.00 over invoice- more than $1000 off the $16,000
> list price. Add in the $500 Chryler rebate and I was $351 BELOW invoice
> or more than $1500 below window sticker. All of this in less than 10
> pleasant minutes handled courteously over a complimentary cup of coffee.
> A half hour of paperwork later and I was driving home in my new truck. No
> hassles. No haggling. No sales manager. No offers. No deposits. No
> negotiations. No counter-offers. No vaseline!
>
> The dealer said that their internet sales have gone from nothing to a
> significant percentage of their business in less than a year and they
> expect a day to come when the vast majority of sales will be pre-arranged
> via the internet. The interaction between dealer and cusotmer will simply
> be signing a few papers and picking up the vehicle. I will definitely buy
> my next vehicle off of the internet. No- I'm not in any way connected
> with carpoint.com- just a "happy car buyer"... which is traditionally an
> oxymoron.
>
> Steve
> '99 Solar Yellow Sport
> '97 Suburban 4X4
> '95 Miata Triple Black
>
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