[kappy]

Almost every Florida auto dealership charges a “Dealer Fee” which is nothing more than additional profit for the dealer after you have made your deal. This fee is just added onto the total of the deal you made. If you lease, the fee is included in the down payment and the monthly payments for the term of your lease.

You can sign a petition to eliminate these fees by going to “Florida Dealer Fee Petition”. The first site that comes up should take you to the petition page. If we could get enough people to sign the petition, I believe that our legislators will take notice and at least put a cap similar to the one in California.

[spring_chicken]

If you make your deal properly, you don't have to worry about added fees. You always deal with the "OUT THE DOOR" figure. Nothing is added to "out the door" and if it is, you walk. Nobody ever HAS to pay these fees.

[Marathon Man]

Originally Posted by spring_chicken

If you make your deal properly, you don't have to worry about added fees. You always deal with the "OUT THE DOOR" figure. Nothing is added to "out the door" and if it is, you walk. Nobody ever HAS to pay these fees.

I agree. I never quite understood the anger about dealer fees. It's on the agreement before you sign. All you have to do is tell them to reduce the price of the car by an equal amount or yo don't sign. Take add-ons away and they simply will up the final price of the car. Some money, different name.

[tcxr750]

In the “good old days” the dealer would add rustproofing, paint sealant, fabric protection, side molding just to name a few overpriced add ons.

[Allegiance]

The way of selling cars is still Antiquated so that the consumers can be overcharged.

Plain and simple.

Dealers need to be essentially cut out of the chain.

[EPutnam1863]

Realtors nowadays are charging $250.00 and up for "administration fee." The last three times the realtor wanted us to pay it, and we said no. It can come out of the commission they get.

[Kerry Azz]

Originally Posted by kappy

Almost every Florida auto dealership charges a “Dealer Fee” which is nothing more than additional profit for the dealer after you have made your deal. This fee is just added onto the total of the deal you made. If you lease, the fee is included in the down payment and the monthly payments for the term of your lease.

You can sign a petition to eliminate these fees by going to “Florida Dealer Fee Petition”. The first site that comes up should take you to the petition page. If we could get enough people to sign the petition, I believe that our legislators will take notice and at least put a cap similar to the one in California.

That’ll never happen. Salespeople hate dealer handling they never see any of that money.

[SouthOfTheBorder]

Originally Posted by kappy

Almost every Florida auto dealership charges a “Dealer Fee” which is nothing more than additional profit for the dealer after you have made your deal. This fee is just added onto the total of the deal you made. If you lease, the fee is included in the down payment and the monthly payments for the term of your lease.

You can sign a petition to eliminate these fees by going to “Florida Dealer Fee Petition”. The first site that comes up should take you to the petition page. If we could get enough people to sign the petition, I believe that our legislators will take notice and at least put a cap similar to the one in California.

My thoughts after reading through this thread......

When anyone signs a contract agreeing to purchase an car at a given price how can they claim to have been "over charged".

We agree to a price, sign a contract to pay that price, and it's ours. if we have buyer's remorse, except for very limited and specific conditions, we can't undo our purchase.

The idea to petition the state to prevent car dealers from charging whatever price they want for their cars is both naive and impractical. Dealers, when limited on the amount of "doc fees", will just adjust their pricing components as much as they feel necessary. The fact that politicians pass laws to limit these fees does in no way insures the average car sale price will be lower than before the laws were passed.

The frustration in this thread understandable, we all want the lowest price. And we all have made a deal or two, that in hindsight, left us wondering if we "paid too much".

So we take our licks and try to be better prepared for the next large item purchase. In today's online world, it is hard to remain an uninformed consumer.

It is the buyer's responsibility to negotiate to what they consider a "fair price" for them. It is not the seller's role to price every item (in this discussion vehicles) "fairly".

If the buyer can't or does not want to do that then hire someone to represent them or pay the piper and move on.

The idea to eliminate the "car dealer infrastructure" and sell direct is an even more naive proposal. We would really be subject to "monopoly pricing". But that is another discussion for another thread.



Don

[birdawg]

Do we pay taxes on dealer doc fees? We do if the increase is on the price of the car