Want to get your feedback.
I have sent email inquiry to 15+ dealers in Texas. Most couldn't surf Google if I offered to pay MSRP.
Nothing but hollow canned Marketing emails and spam response.
Once I started adding my ph#, calls started coming in.

Most of the time, they do not reference the truck I inquire about and I have to start a new conversation over and over with the same dealers. This is nearly everyone, or they will finally followup with an email on a truck not even close to the one I want.
Very poor contact rate of return, Dodge corporate should be ashamed.
What gives?
Are they that stupid, or are they holding inventory for the grand poohba?
Do they think every buyer is a moron?
I get the impression they are waiting on suckers to come to them.

I have particular requirements, loaded Laramie, DWB, 4x4, 3.92, etc.
I have found 3 trucks in the state I want via the Dodge site.

MSRP ~48K, all Dealers are 39K with incentives.

p.s. Anyone have a dealer in Texas that can deal better than 10K off?

 

Boerne Dodge. They did the best for me when I bought in 02/09. They had a decent selection too.

 

go in in person to three dealers, get quotes for a factery order.

I have found a huge up size in price for what I can build on line and what is on a dealers lot.

you have three lazy basterds on your wallet, the sales person, new car sales manager and the finance person, you set your price or walk away.

 

When I bought my Ram in October, I sent emails to 9 dealerships, one emailed me back within 10 minutes, we went back and forth and I picked up the Ram the next day. As for the other 8 dearships, never heard from 5 and 3 others emailed me several days later. I sent all them emails with the original text and a picture of me standing next to my new truck. This is the 21st century, people shop online, we don't want to drive all over and sit in a cramped room while some salesman "goes and talks to the manager". Get with the program people!

 

Go play the game on their turf at the dealer, I never was satisfied via the net, at least in person you can get them all worked as they think they are working you.

 

Try Mac Haik Georgetown, they are typically lowest in Austin area. Last month they were doing 11K off.

 

If you knew the sales percentage of e-mail vs walk in customers, you wouldn't even ask. If I was a salesman and had 10 e-mails vs one guy walking in the door, you can bet your *** I would be talking to the guy in the lot.

 

Mac Haik is usually pretty competitive on pricing (bought my '07 there), but a) They really like to play the game in person and b) Boerne was 2k cheaper for me.

 

I dealt with my salesman/owner of Blenheim Dodge while he was on vacation in the Bahamas or somewhere like that. We did it thru email and lastly one meeting to sign the papers. Saw the truck in a photo only and got the window sticker from website so went to a local dealer around here to test drive a similar one. The guy took my Charger that I was 9 months into a 24 month lease , I put 0 down and was paying under 400 a month. Anyway, day after he came back I picked up my truck. Now I don't go there for service since it's too far, would not make sense especially if it were to be towed, I found that if your car is in an accident even if it is towed by a flat bed when it is not up of the ground on 4 tires the farther you go the more damage happens. I know common sense.

 

When I bought my truck I did the whole deal online before speaking to a live person. I found the truck I wanted in inventory at Baker Dodge in Princeton NJ so I emailed them. They got back to me right away and were very interested in moving the truck (this was in Mar 09). Over several emails I got the price of the truck lower than I expected. I also sent them photos and got my trade in value all online. After they came down to my price and up to my trade in value, I got them to throw in a set of tube steps. It was only then that I sent the sales person my phone # and she called me right back. We already had a deal so all I had to do was send in my credit app online. Picked it up a few days later. Drove my old truck there and took the new one home. I kept waiting for something to go wrong. Far better experience than I ever had in person at a dealership. I'm not the best negotiator in person but online I had no reservations about standing firm.