Dealer Prep/Doc Fee
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From: east of here
Banned
Joined: Nov 2018
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From: east of here
It is. Boston Mills, in the heart of a huge National Park by my house. Great place to ride. It's a very small ski resort, but a good place for locals to ski and snow board if they don't want to drive four hours to Peak N Peak in West Virginia.
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The dealer is ripping you off with the prep fee. The prep is part of a new bike and is reimbursed to the dealer by the moco. I have never seen a used bike on a dealer floor that had been prepped again. What I have seen is old and worn tires, old fluids, incorrect tire pressures
for a few bucks more, get a 19, no miles and a full factory warranty
for a few bucks more, get a 19, no miles and a full factory warranty
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From: Honah Lee
They had it down to long line of thoes silly numbers and a total. One was an advertisement and another a lot fee that my buddy was trying to get taken out of the total.
Salesman said they were fixed on total. Friend said it was a deal breaker. His wife said she was not leaving without her car.
So you know what happened. Interesting but that list and finial price where no where to be seen on the actual papers that came with car.
Here in VA, there is a standard contract for vehicle sales. It list what is legal. One fee on it is what most call a document fee. And of course tax, title , plates.
What they do is all that sillyness that they add on is just shown as the car then .
Most happy people do just as you said. And nothing wrong with doing that. Last two new vehicles I have purchased, I kept track of their sillyness and got checks backs after the purchase.
What is interesting is after complaning to DMV, and getting a check back, said it would not happen again.
Still happened again but this time, I simply showed the head manager where they were there so called mistakes. They had doubled VA sales tax, doc fee and plate fees. That new car dealership where crooks way past the typical salesman's add on BS. Ever their finiance man was a crook padding his bottom line. It happened again because I didn't add up their totals. They where down to the level of adding 2+2=5 . They finially contributed it to what I had put down I would pay that we all signed and agreed and then them adding it back in again by mistake to their sheet.
Last edited by Jackie Paper; Feb 17, 2019 at 11:08 AM.
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From: Living in a van down by the river
Yep. I don't care if they write up the bike on the bill of sale at a buck and charge me $20k prep and doc fee's. If the price out the door is what I'm looking for, it's a deal.
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From: Ohio
The dealer is ripping you off with the prep fee. The prep is part of a new bike and is reimbursed to the dealer by the moco. I have never seen a used bike on a dealer floor that had been prepped again. What I have seen is old and worn tires, old fluids, incorrect tire pressures
for a few bucks more, get a 19, no miles and a full factory warranty
for a few bucks more, get a 19, no miles and a full factory warranty
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From: anacoco, la
it takes me 45 minutes to an hour just to do the front wheel. how the hell do you manage to do the whole bike, to showroom condition, in that time?