I’m not getting involved in that. All I said to dealer was you guys are great like Mike said. I guess I should have kept my mouth shut and not said anything.
I never used his deal nor I asked him for advice on getting the car. When I was interested in a BMW in March before COVID. He declined to help in March saying I was being picky and go with his deal. There’s always three sides to every story. He can think I was being a snake but I was using another members deal to get what I want. If I really was being a snake, I would have posted what dealer and salesman helped but not my place as all brokers work hard with dealers
On one hand, I’m happy for you and the deal you got. It’s spectacular.
On the other, if you found out about this dealer because of Mike (and not sheer coincidence, which I doubt given that you dropped his name), the menschy thing to do would be to pay his fee of $649, IMO. Even with that it’s a sub-$600 payment on a 105k car.
Everyone else may feel differently, but that’s what I would do.
No not really. I service my car at the same dealership (BMW X5) and I stopped in to look at cars. Another member on here got his unicorn deal and I was hoping for same. I never showed dealer his numbers or anything. I was just being cordial with the sales manager saying “Mike was right about you guys making this all easy and great to work with”
If he wants to post about he’s mature about not name dropping me, I don’t give two shits. Mike didn’t also state that we got 4 cars from him last year with all broker fees paid to him. I could have gone to the dealer directly to get same deal but I just referred my family to go through him. Like I said always different sides of every story
Am I the only one here who is confused? You said in another thread that you “didn’t want to end up with two cars” and that you had ordered an X3 M40i…through @nyclife.
I’m positive it does as I believe the PenFed rebate gets paid out by BMW Financial directly to the dealer. It’s nothing out of their margin. Been done plenty of times by people reporting.
Usually they don’t give a “rando walkin” Especially without prior negotiation,
The same blowout deal they are giving a broker. As they pay a salesman, extract the most profit etc. I have a tough time believing you just mentioned his name
I walked out on their initial offer and was going to go with another dealer in NY. They called me back next day… “here what we will do” type of thing. They had raised money factor at .00139, only 18% off, and laughed at me asking for 20% off.
I actually get my car serviced there and bought my last x5 with them so not a random person.
I didn’t ask for any convincing, I just handed it over to them. Like others said, they probably eating into their profits on the car to make end of the month quota
