Taking Delivery at a Different Dealership
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I have not made this request specifically but just generally speaking buying a car from BMW (even the higher end models) is infinitely easier and much less fraught with attitude. To the point above my friend took delivery of a Corvette at his house and the process was super smooth. Just feels like Porsche operates differently is all.
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The dealership you order from gets the sale and commission. Unless they do a trade which is extremely rare and typically for their vip repeat customers. Im sure they would ship the car to you for a fee.
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I have not made this request specifically but just generally speaking buying a car from BMW (even the higher end models) is infinitely easier and much less fraught with attitude. To the point above my friend took delivery of a Corvette at his house and the process was super smooth. Just feels like Porsche operates differently is all.
Corvette is entirely different. GM has an arrangement with all franchise dealers on how those are handled. One wouldn't get the same treatment if buying a Malibu from the same dealer. The closet thing that Porsche has for a VIP delivery experience is if you chose to pay the extra $2K to do PEC delivery which happens to be by South Bay and not Newport.
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At some point many dealers of different brands will probably go the Tesla route. Bought my kid a Tesla on the app after filtering what we wanted, setup funds transfer on it as well which was done in minutes. Then they told me when to pick it up. I didn't like a couple scratches on the bumper during the walk around, so they put in the system to ship one/install at my convenience. Then one signature accepting delivery and drove off.
I even asked the guy a couple times if "this was it?" We're talking maybe 10 minutes total.
I'm somewhat anti-games. Just get me in and out, I'm busy. Between work, kids sports, etc.. I have other stuff to do.
My first Porsche experience took hours. I told them after a couple hours that I was about to leave with my wife and kids to go feed them, and sure enough I did because they said it would take a little bit longer as their finance office guy had a few people waiting ahead of us and that we had plenty of time to go eat dinner. Then as we're waiting on our food I got a call that they're ready for us and that we needed to hurry because they close in 30 minutes. Sorry, but I don't have 4 hours to blow in the evening. We were there before 5, and planned to get dinner after we bought the car. Had the kitchen wrap our food in to-go boxes and the kids ate on the way back to the store. Given I was excited about the car, I didn't even eat.
I even asked the guy a couple times if "this was it?" We're talking maybe 10 minutes total.
I'm somewhat anti-games. Just get me in and out, I'm busy. Between work, kids sports, etc.. I have other stuff to do.
My first Porsche experience took hours. I told them after a couple hours that I was about to leave with my wife and kids to go feed them, and sure enough I did because they said it would take a little bit longer as their finance office guy had a few people waiting ahead of us and that we had plenty of time to go eat dinner. Then as we're waiting on our food I got a call that they're ready for us and that we needed to hurry because they close in 30 minutes. Sorry, but I don't have 4 hours to blow in the evening. We were there before 5, and planned to get dinner after we bought the car. Had the kitchen wrap our food in to-go boxes and the kids ate on the way back to the store. Given I was excited about the car, I didn't even eat.
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Why the hell would you expect a completely differently owned business to want to work for free?
Man some people are clueless.
Unless this is a franchise and even then, you think some sales guy wants to prep and hand over your car for no commission?
Youre buying a Porsche, its safe to assume youd understand the stores are generally individually owned?
Man some people are clueless.
Unless this is a franchise and even then, you think some sales guy wants to prep and hand over your car for no commission?
Youre buying a Porsche, its safe to assume youd understand the stores are generally individually owned?
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I have not made this request specifically but just generally speaking buying a car from BMW (even the higher end models) is infinitely easier and much less fraught with attitude. To the point above my friend took delivery of a Corvette at his house and the process was super smooth. Just feels like Porsche operates differently is all.
Get over yourself
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It can be done , and I have done it multiple times
say you buy the car from dealer A and want delivery to dealer B
dealer A will enter in their system destination to dealer B . Has to be done early enough in the process so the car will arrive at the proper port of entry , and routed to dealer B by truck
Dealer B receives the car and does the PDI .
Dealer B send dealer A the invoice for the work .
You collect car at dealer B
problems that I have encountered is dealer B over charges dealer A for the PDI . I have heard numbers as high as 2 k which is ridiculous. Probably actual cost is couple of hundreds but apparently dealer A has to pay it
so that will cut profit margin from dealer A, but in reality they save couple hundred dollars on PDI
Also another issue is the paper work. Can be done virtual, but dealers feel that they have more advantage selling the extra packages if papers are done in person as compared to virtual. Famous pressure cooker with the finance guy
so dealer A have no incentive to do it unless they look at it as moving another unit that other wise they could not move , but this is unlikely with a 911 these days
say you buy the car from dealer A and want delivery to dealer B
dealer A will enter in their system destination to dealer B . Has to be done early enough in the process so the car will arrive at the proper port of entry , and routed to dealer B by truck
Dealer B receives the car and does the PDI .
Dealer B send dealer A the invoice for the work .
You collect car at dealer B
problems that I have encountered is dealer B over charges dealer A for the PDI . I have heard numbers as high as 2 k which is ridiculous. Probably actual cost is couple of hundreds but apparently dealer A has to pay it
so that will cut profit margin from dealer A, but in reality they save couple hundred dollars on PDI
Also another issue is the paper work. Can be done virtual, but dealers feel that they have more advantage selling the extra packages if papers are done in person as compared to virtual. Famous pressure cooker with the finance guy
so dealer A have no incentive to do it unless they look at it as moving another unit that other wise they could not move , but this is unlikely with a 911 these days
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My SA is telling me that I cannot take delivery at my local dealer and must take delivery at his...he's at Porsche South Bay and I requested delivery at Porsche Newport. Not a huge deal just would be better at Newport to avoid the 100 mile or so roundtrip. This seems odd - you really can't take delivery at a different dealer than you purchase at?
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It's not free with Chevy, there is a courtesy delivery fee at the delivering dealer. Look at it this way - a Chevy dealer that gets no Corvette allocations, and thus no profits from them, can make a few hundred dollars delivering a car. Many times they are selling their own cars for a few hundred dollars over invoice, so why not do courtesy delivery. I admit its different in the Porsche world.
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Why the hell would you expect a completely differently owned business to want to work for free?
Man some people are clueless.
Unless this is a franchise and even then, you think some sales guy wants to prep and hand over your car for no commission?
Youre buying a Porsche, its safe to assume youd understand the stores are generally individually owned?
Man some people are clueless.
Unless this is a franchise and even then, you think some sales guy wants to prep and hand over your car for no commission?
Youre buying a Porsche, its safe to assume youd understand the stores are generally individually owned?
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It's not free with Chevy, there is a courtesy delivery fee at the delivering dealer. Look at it this way - a Chevy dealer that gets no Corvette allocations, and thus no profits from them, can make a few hundred dollars delivering a car. Many times they are selling their own cars for a few hundred dollars over invoice, so why not do courtesy delivery. I admit its different in the Porsche world.
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It can be done , and I have done it multiple times
say you buy the car from dealer A and want delivery to dealer B
dealer A will enter in their system destination to dealer B . Has to be done early enough in the process so the car will arrive at the proper port of entry , and routed to dealer B by truck
Dealer B receives the car and does the PDI .
Dealer B send dealer A the invoice for the work .
You collect car at dealer B
problems that I have encountered is dealer B over charges dealer A for the PDI . I have heard numbers as high as 2 k which is ridiculous. Probably actual cost is couple of hundreds but apparently dealer A has to pay it
so that will cut profit margin from dealer A, but in reality they save couple hundred dollars on PDI
Also another issue is the paper work. Can be done virtual, but dealers feel that they have more advantage selling the extra packages if papers are done in person as compared to virtual. Famous pressure cooker with the finance guy
so dealer A have no incentive to do it unless they look at it as moving another unit that other wise they could not move , but this is unlikely with a 911 these days
say you buy the car from dealer A and want delivery to dealer B
dealer A will enter in their system destination to dealer B . Has to be done early enough in the process so the car will arrive at the proper port of entry , and routed to dealer B by truck
Dealer B receives the car and does the PDI .
Dealer B send dealer A the invoice for the work .
You collect car at dealer B
problems that I have encountered is dealer B over charges dealer A for the PDI . I have heard numbers as high as 2 k which is ridiculous. Probably actual cost is couple of hundreds but apparently dealer A has to pay it
so that will cut profit margin from dealer A, but in reality they save couple hundred dollars on PDI
Also another issue is the paper work. Can be done virtual, but dealers feel that they have more advantage selling the extra packages if papers are done in person as compared to virtual. Famous pressure cooker with the finance guy
so dealer A have no incentive to do it unless they look at it as moving another unit that other wise they could not move , but this is unlikely with a 911 these days
