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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VW gives huge discounts, I wouldn't use costco for this. Always buy at the end of the month. Email all of the local dealers with the car you want including all options and ask for the out the door price. Then email the lowest one and say x dealer will do it for $500 less, can they match it? [/quote]

They won’t match unless they see a written quote. I’ve had some dealers get upset if I try to take quote with me, and one make you come into dealership to get a quote.   Just saying “I can get it cheaper” only works on cars no one wants or already have huge markups

I like the services because they give me a list of dealerships that should be willing to negotiated over email (though I did have some duds that kept pretending they would match the quote but would never send actual out the door price quote on paper). But when I cold call or email dealerships, they just say you need to come in half the time so this saves some of that step.

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I think the advice about emailing all the dealers and then trying to get a price match is no longer as helpful as it once was. This advice from 2010 and probably earlier when people were still going into dealers and less likely to try and negotiate through email. It was also a time when they didn't want to lose a single sale. Now I think they know that if you don't buy there will be someone else and people are now used to pay MSRP or close to it so there is less room for negotiation. [/quote]

NP. Worked for me in 2021. I suspect it doesn’t work for highly in-demand models, but when they have inventory on the lot that they want to get rid of, it’s a good tactic. Saves them time, too, right? Like, if I am trying to move inventory, why wouldn’t I want to do a deal by email with a willing buyer? Time is money.[/quote]

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