jhardy

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.

Icegrill

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. I’m sure they would ship the car to you for a fee.

rasetsu

The dealer experience with Porsche is not universal and can vary greatly from store to store. My first Porsche purchase experience was completed in under an hour at the store which was in stark contrast to the usual 3+ hour ordeals that some other brands have put me through. My second Porsche purchase experience was even easier with everything done via text and email exchanges and the car was delivered to my door. This was for a used car too. Post pandemic changed the dynamics for Porsche where demand has shot up with supplies still being well below the market demand. Aside from the Taycan, Porsche is one of the few brands with nearly every model being in high demand so the dealers aren't motivated to cater to every customer's different requests combined with the fact that they are very cutthroat with each other because the future allocation numbers of limited production and very high priced models is dependent on how many units each individual store closes on. This kind of dealer behavior can be seen nowadays with the high demand/low inventory models of any manufacturer like the Honda Civic Type R and the Toyota Corolla GR. If you really insisted, I'm sure South Bay would be willing to deliver your new car to your home by Newport for you for a fee.

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.

raydog9379

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.

Angryinch

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?

You’re buying a Porsche, its safe to assume you’d understand the stores are generally individually owned?

Angryinch

You should go buy a Corvette lol.

Get over yourself…

pitt911

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

Highline-Autos.com

You'd have a better chance taking delivery at the Ferrari dealership that is owned by the same dealership group than having your delivery at a Porsche dealership outside the dealership group.

dudeoverthere

take the scenic way home. got mine from the furthest dealer 80 miles away and turned it into a 200 mile mountain road trip.

nyca

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.

jhardy

I bet you’re fun at parties. People do this. Believe or not in 2024 people arrange delivery at other dealerships. Apologies for melting your mind.

jhardy

Right that’s what I was hoping for. Pay a few hundred bucks vs a categorical no. Oh well no big deal.

jhardy

Yup I suspected it could be done. Thanks for verifying.

Pointbye

If it’s so inconvenient for you, why didn’t you purchase locally?

jhardy

Lack of allocations. Not really that inconvenient as long as I avoid rush hour traffic.