Hi all - I’m in the market for a new lease and noticed autonation dealers tend to list each other’s inventory across the whole state it seems. Talking with one dealer, he was willing to have the car brought from a different city but couldn’t arrive at a deal. Is it possible/advisable to shop the same car across different autonation dealers to see if any bite given their willingness to bring that car to you?
Yes, just don’t give all of them your name/phone number, they might have access to the same system and then they’ll see that you’ve been calling around.
It would make the most sense to negotiate with the dealer that has the car on their lot as it costs money to transfer cars between stores and the manager of that store might be more willing to discount further to make room on his/her lot