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From: garys@houxm.UUCP (#G.SEUBERT)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Sticker Price vs. Dealer Cost ...
Message-ID: <737@houxm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Apr-84 07:24:18 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 19 07:24:18 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Apr-84 01:06:39 EST
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The April '84 Auto Buying Issue of Consumer Reports offers (as always)
great tips on new and used car purchases.  They also offer a service
of sending you a computer printout for a particular model domestic car
with the invoice (dealer cost) and sticker prices for the base car and
EVERY conceivable option. The fee is $9 for one car, $17 for two, etc.

I obtained printouts for the 2-door Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme and the
Buick Regal Limited and they are quite nice but here's what they used to
give you for free:

	Sticker Price of base car x .863  = Dealer's cost
	Sitcker Price of option   x .85   = Dealer's cost

Both printouts followed the above formulas to the $ and I assume they
would hold for other Domestic models and manufacturers.

Their suggestion is: "If you can't find a (Domestic) Dealer willing to
sell for $50 - $400 over invoice price, keep shopping"

Gary Seubert   ..!ihnp4!houxm!garys

P.S. I didn't pick either car!