Anyone else being turned off by greedy dealers?

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camden944

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I know these are somewhat of a demand right now, but charging more than MSRP is price gouging. Anyone else really turned off by Kia for allowing dealers to do this?

 

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ucinn

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Any dealer will do that regardless of make if they have a desirable vehicle. Ford dealers do it with the Bullitt Mustangs and the GT500's. Dodge did it with their hellcats for a while and their Demons. It's not a Kia thing, but who would have ever thought that Kia would ever have vehicles that they could do that. Used to be they would have a BOGO offer...lol

 

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Dozer81

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ucinn said:

Any dealer will do that regardless of make if they have a desirable vehicle. Ford dealers do it with the Bullitt Mustangs and the GT500's. Dodge did it with their hellcats for a while and their Demons. It's not a Kia thing, but who would have ever thought that Kia would ever have vehicles that they could do that. Used to be they would have a BOGO offer...lol

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Harley did it for years too, charged a big premium over MSRP and made a lot of money. Kept production artificially low and drove the prices up. Not so much anymore, you can negotiate price on any bike they make these days. We all know dealers are there to make money, they're gonna charge whatever the market will bear. I guess the choices are wait until production catches up to demand or go somewhere else...

 

ucinn

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Yea, the problem is that dealers wouldn't do that if it didn't work. There are those out there that pay asking price...it's boggling. I sold cars for Chrysler dealer when the PT Cruiser was coming out. I made a great deal on preorders of those. People were paying over MSRP without even seeing one first much less driving one.

 

CaptinKia

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The only company that regulate this is MB.

 

scott88

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ucinn said:

who would have ever thought that Kia would ever have vehicles that they could do that. Used to be they would have a BOGO offer...lol

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haha so true

 

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The dealer near me is asking MSRP - Kia incentives... I am getting eager to pull the trigger on that deal considering with KIA incentives the price does fall below MSRP.

 

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ucinn

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Too late, the only incentive left is the rebate for financing.. the military, loyalty, and conquest are no longer it seems.

 

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Looks like all incentives are gone from Kia website.... Guess will have to wait and see if with the launch of Hyundai Palisade and Ford Explorer if Kia launches anything again. Anyone following Kia from earlier know how long before they provide any more incentives ?

 

ucinn

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It's usually monthly

 

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ucinn said:

It's usually monthly

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Apologies for my ignorance, does that mean they might have incentives for April.

 

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Let me tag @MurlinatoR in this thread, since he works for Kia he can share upcoming incentives.

 

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ucinn

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They brought back the military, loyalty, and competitor for April..so everything remains the same.

 

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ucinn said:

They brought back the military, loyalty, and competitor for April..so everything remains the same.

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I don't see it on Kia website... :/

 

ucinn

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It's there, do a build, then click on the payment calculator and you will see they are back there. They usually update the calculator on the build page faster than anywhere else. It shows they are now good through April 30th

 

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ucinn said:

It's there, do a build, then click on the payment calculator and you will see they are back there. They usually update the calculator on the build page faster than anywhere else. It shows they are now good through April 30th

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Thank you for the information.

 

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Looks like they updated the interest rate think better now and reduced conquest by $500

 

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The downside of allowing dealers to charge $5-10k over MSRP is that it'll turn away first time buyers.

 

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I agree, especially since it seems that many interested buyers are brand new to the Kia brand.

bob_lob said:

The downside of allowing dealers to charge $5-10k over MSRP is that it'll turn away first time buyers.

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MacStikki

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JDoggery said:

I agree, especially since it seems that many interested buyers are brand new to the Kia brand.

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Both the Stinger and the Telluride have attracted a lot first time buyers like myself. I can tell you after having owned Audis for the last 10 years, the dealer experience was a major turn off for me and I almost left without buying. Kia really needs to focus on training their dealers to operate more like a luxury brand if they want to compete in this segment.