Live in VA, but in MD?

[Anonymous]

If I can get the same price at either dealer, VA or MD, I’m thinking it’s better to go to MD because the ‘processing fees’ are less there.

But is there an additional cost to then register it in VA afterwards?

[Anonymous]

Sorry, the title should read buy in MD not but.

[Anonymous]

No dealer has to charge you the processing fee, its their choice. Negotiate. MD has a $300 limit, VA has no limit.

[Anonymous]

The dealers are sneaky and have the processing fee hard-printed on the form.

What I did with a VA dealer that had exactly the card I wanted is to have them drop the price by $300 at the last minute, pointing out I could go to MD and buy it without that.

It helped that they had a deslaership in MD also (Koons) so I had a pretty good argument in favor of dropping it, as I could walk to the dealer in MD and buy the car that's sitting on the VA branch's lot from there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The dealers are sneaky and have the processing fee hard-printed on the form.

What I did with a VA dealer that had exactly the card I wanted is to have them drop the price by $300 at the last minute, pointing out I could go to MD and buy it without that.

It helped that they had a deslaership in MD also (Koons) so I had a pretty good argument in favor of dropping it, as I could walk to the dealer in MD and buy the car that's sitting on the VA branch's lot from there.

You should try and get quotes from dealerships far and wide over the internet even before you show up somewhere. Make sure the quotes are for out of the door price. You might discover that a dealer in VA might be able to give you better out of the door price than one in MD.

Our dealer in VA would not budge on the 700 doc fee but did knock the price down to $1K below the best number in MD.

[Anonymous]

Nope you can absolutely do this. Just tell them to title it in Va for you. No need to pay the dealer processing fees.