E-tron: possible combination of discount, incentives & no sales tax in NJ (looking for feedback)

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Hoping to be respectful to everyone on the forum as I am looking for your feedback if my thinking is correct. So when I approach the dealers in my vicinity, I don’t sound like an idiot, which I have been told multiple times now, that I am.

I got an email from CostcoAuto (I am a Costco member) that Audi would give employee pricing which can also be combined with other available incentives.

Here is what I am looking at:
Gray P+ with driver assist
36 months
7500 miles

MSRP $76390 (which I priced on Costco’s website)
Employee Pricing $68751 (after a 10% discount)

As per Edmunds, the numbers for July are:
.00173 MF
$7500 lease cash
P+: 50% residual.
$6000 dealer’s market allowance

Here is the calculator and cost is $635pm. I am using following values:
Acq. Fee of $895,
Govt Fee of $300,
Dealer/doc fee of $300,
Drive off/DAS: $2130 (1st/AF/GF/DF, etc)
Sales Tax: 0.00 (there is no sales tax in NJ on EVs.)

Now, if I add 9 MSDs (which Audi allows, the monthly cost comes down to $593) with a refundable deposit of $5400.

Questions for the community:

  1. Do these numbers make sense? Anything I am adding to make it more attractive for myself, but not the dealer?
  2. Shall I share this analysis with the dealers for negotiation or not?
  3. How realistic it is to squeeze in an additional discount on MSRP? I personally have not been able to. I tried to get help from professionals and that didn’t work out either.

Looking forward to learning back from the community.

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Out of curiosity how many dealerships have you tried?

And what does the latter statement mean?

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It means he tried the rest, now he is trying the best, ie vhooloo

4

vhooloo sez your calculations and logic are sound but
a) There is very little 2019 etron inventory
b) Dealers will pretend Costco and 6k marketing allowance do not exist.

5

I have tried more than a few dealers so. Whenever I want to understand the numbers, response is, “you have no idea how lease works.”

I connected with a few brokers and the lease monthly cost keeps going higher as we get closer to ink the deal.
Any question I ask means, I am judging their honesty, integrity, and unfair to them as they try to make their living.

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I think that is correct vhooloo. Dealers generally don’t go all out in first go and then they make it a nickel and dime conversation.

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Depends on where you’re located.

At the time of this post, Audi San Diego alone has 34 of them sitting there.