Check in if you have a Paint to Sample PTS car on order
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LOVING IT! Obviously, I'm a little biased but still! What color stitching did you go with on the inside? PCCB and silver are perfect since no brake dust. I have platinum and didn't know how much dust the standard brakes shed. If I had spec'd silver with standard brakes, the brake dust would drive me INSANE.
Are you doing ppf and ceramic?
Are you doing ppf and ceramic?
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Question for the group.....What have your deposits ranged from? Dealer asked for 2.5k up front and now that I have an allocation that locks 8/31 they are asking for the difference of whats already paid to get to 10%......and non refundable. Is this standard? or is my Dealer just greedy at this point?
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Question for the group.....What have your deposits ranged from? Dealer asked for 2.5k up front and now that I have an allocation that locks 8/31 they are asking for the difference of whats already paid to get to 10%......and non refundable. Is this standard? or is my Dealer just greedy at this point?
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halfmonkey - Interior stitching is yellow but I went with the black seatbelts, ppf on front bumper only, no ceramic.
thuggo - Zero deposit but this is the 4th ordered car I've bought from same SA.
thuggo - Zero deposit but this is the 4th ordered car I've bought from same SA.
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Question for the group.....What have your deposits ranged from? Dealer asked for 2.5k up front and now that I have an allocation that locks 8/31 they are asking for the difference of whats already paid to get to 10%......and non refundable. Is this standard? or is my Dealer just greedy at this point?
PTS (and maybe LTS), at MSRP, and I've never bought a car from them before, and phoned rather than going in. I understand why they want some surety that Im actually going to complete. Not everyone may want a car with my spec, thats well into base 911 prices, for largely aesthetic options.
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2k deposit here
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I paid nothing until an allocation was there and then it was a 10% non-refundable payment after.
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Question for the group.....What have your deposits ranged from? Dealer asked for 2.5k up front and now that I have an allocation that locks 8/31 they are asking for the difference of whats already paid to get to 10%......and non refundable. Is this standard? or is my Dealer just greedy at this point?
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My deposit was zero until an allocation was officially in hand. After the allocation was secured it was $5k because the car eclipsed $100k. Would have been less otherwise.
EDIT Note that I was a first-time buyer.
EDIT Note that I was a first-time buyer.
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FLCAYMAN, same with me. I also think since that this was my first new car purchased from this dealership and the fact I had just moved out of the authorized sales area for the dealership combined to lead to them to require the $5K deposit. It's just such a long wait, considering that I was on Allocation hold for 6 months too...
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There's no doubt this is a business where prior relationships matter. My SA offered to take just a $1k deposit, lower than normal, since I had bought two 911s from them before plus I use them for service and attend many of their events. But I was worried with the small number of allocations trickling in I wouldn't be taken as seriously as others possible buyers if someone at the dealer making final allocation decisions didn't know me and wanted it to go to a more committed buyer (if their only evidence was the deposit amount). So maybe I am an oddball but I insisted they take their "normal" $5k deposit with my demand order so I was on an even footing with anyone else coming in. it was always refundable though. There was nothing more required when the order locked last week.
The times I have heard of where a dealer required a larger deposit and made it non-refundable was when a car was specced with a unusual configuration, or a super-loaded configuration, where they could have a hard time selling it if the original buyer walked away or failed to get whatever loan/lease they needed. The extra deposit money improved their options to sell the unusual car at a discount later to get it moved, when otherwise they might get stuck with it for a while.
The times I have heard of where a dealer required a larger deposit and made it non-refundable was when a car was specced with a unusual configuration, or a super-loaded configuration, where they could have a hard time selling it if the original buyer walked away or failed to get whatever loan/lease they needed. The extra deposit money improved their options to sell the unusual car at a discount later to get it moved, when otherwise they might get stuck with it for a while.
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Question for the group.....What have your deposits ranged from? Dealer asked for 2.5k up front and now that I have an allocation that locks 8/31 they are asking for the difference of whats already paid to get to 10%......and non refundable. Is this standard? or is my Dealer just greedy at this point?
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FLCAYMAN, same with me. I also think since that this was my first new car purchased from this dealership and the fact I had just moved out of the authorized sales area for the dealership combined to lead to them to require the $5K deposit. It's just such a long wait, considering that I was on Allocation hold for 6 months too...
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Question for the group.....What have your deposits ranged from? Dealer asked for 2.5k up front and now that I have an allocation that locks 8/31 they are asking for the difference of whats already paid to get to 10%......and non refundable. Is this standard? or is my Dealer just greedy at this point?
Second was $1,000 to be first on the list for an allocation. An additional $4,000 when I got an allocation. All refundable.
I think there’s a big difference between the east coast and the west coast on these things.