Just canceled my F10 550i and ordered a ........
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Rudy, you should be able to qualify for this Holiday credit, began 11/1/10 and goes thru 1/3/2011 if I read correctly from the bmwusa website. What I am not sure about if if we have to also take the Nivember Lease rates along with the $1500 rebate. Might be a good time to talk to your CA. Also, on the website it states "1500 off MSRP", however if it's anything like the previous holiday credits offered by BMW, it's off the cap reduction cost, not just MSRP.
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550i 'M' Sport!!!
The dealer was not happy
My car was on the boat from Germany when I heard about the 'M' Sport on this forum. Perhaps I should have checked out this forum sooner!
Anyway, when I ordered the original F10, the 'M' Sport was not offered on the BMW site.
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The dealer was not happy
My car was on the boat from Germany when I heard about the 'M' Sport on this forum. Perhaps I should have checked out this forum sooner!
Anyway, when I ordered the original F10, the 'M' Sport was not offered on the BMW site.
Roger
and welcome. Better late than never.PS. Congrats GENEaTALS. I see you have moved up from site whore to Moderator
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The reason I originally accepted that the deposit was 'non-refundable' is that the dealer explained, with the options I had ordered, that the car was carrying a high sticker. I don't think they wanted to have a high speced car in their inventory. I had also beaten them up badly on the discount I expected, so they were not making their usual markup... Normally I would never order a car where the dealer asked for such a large 'non-refundable' deposit.....
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I recently moved from CA to FL and I know in CA, deposits are always refundable.
I assumed (perhaps, wrongly), that the laws varied from state to state?
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Great move and believe me, as long as you are taking another car, the dealer couldn't care less about putting the original one back into inventory. If you canceled all together, he would probably be pretty unhappy. As for the non-refundable deposit, I am, of course, biased in my opinion. If you place an order on a car that is being built to your exact specifications and you cancel all together, I think that the dealer should have the right to keep your money. Unfortunately, we really don't have that right. If you went to a furniture store and ordered a custom living room and went to cancel, they would keep your deposit. Same with just about everything else with the exception of cars. The dealer needs to pay floor plan on the car and incurs expense the day the vehicle arives in his inventory. Some cars are not that easy to sell. I had a customer order an X5 without heated seats and back out of the deal. The car took forever to sell and we had to go well under invoice to do so. It's not always easy.
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Great move and believe me, as long as you are taking another car, the dealer couldn't care less about putting the original one back into inventory. If you canceled all together, he would probably be pretty unhappy. As for the non-refundable deposit, I am, of course, biased in my opinion. If you place an order on a car that is being built to your exact specifications and you cancel all together, I think that the dealer should have the right to keep your money. Unfortunately, we really don't have that right. If you went to a furniture store and ordered a custom living room and went to cancel, they would keep your deposit. Same with just about everything else with the exception of cars. The dealer needs to pay floor plan on the car and incurs expense the day the vehicle arives in his inventory. Some cars are not that easy to sell. I had a customer order an X5 without heated seats and back out of the deal. The car took forever to sell and we had to go well under invoice to do so. It's not always easy.
otherwise signing on the dotted line is worth a toilet paper...