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Still unimpressed with these guys who are transporting my car from Watertown, MA to Cincinnati, OH. The car was picked up from the dealer on Friday, but apparently sat somewhere near Boston over the entire weekend. They said it's leaving Boston today (Monday) and I'll have it tomorrow. I'm skeptical to say the least. I've told them many times that I need to have the car before I go out of town. The one thing they were quick to do however was to charge my credit card! I didn't shop around but used the recommendation of the dealer. Other's should shop around.

My car from Watertown MA is on its way to OH as we speak! I thought I'd relay an interesting story ... when I was trying to buy around Cincinnati/Dayton, I couldn't get nearly the deal I was getting from Massachusetts. One saleslady in Dayton was particularly rude, saying that I was lying for claiming I could get the car for what I was getting it for, and implying that everyone else here was lying too about buying below invoice. So once my deal was closed, I e-mailed her the VIN and my purchase price and said (basically) "stick it!" Well, a few days later I had a voicemail from the dealer here in Cincinnati, and he said "You'd better call me, I have some bad news for you about Lexus of Watertown. I think you're going to be unhappy to hear this." I had a brief moment of panic. I called him back, and he said that the dealer in Dayton contacted him and then he looked up my VIN and said "They sold you a car without the nav package, that's why it's so cheap." I told him that I had the window sticker as well as a bill of sale which both listed the nav package/NV, so if the car came without it I certainly had grounds to go after Watertown, and he said "fine". I then went back to look at my e-mail to Dayton an noticed that I mistyped the VIN (the last 6 numbers are one number off from an important date for me, so I typed that instead). Funny that these two dealers a) talked to each other, b) were so concerned about whether I was getting the right car or not, c) didn't make one effort to try to match Watertown's price, and d) are obviously scratching their heads trying to figure out how Watertown is doing it!! I'll post again when I have my car between today (Sunday) and Tuesday.

All, to recap, here's my deal: The MSRP is $48,259. The invoice should be around $43,000. The price is $41,525 + $369 doc fees. I'll pay $700 to ship MA to OH. The paperwork arrived Monday by Fedex and will be back to them this morning, so officially the car is mine! (as is the debt). jrnyman6 - although it looks like options are a-la-carte, it is typical for factories to bunch them into certain configurations. If everything were possible one-by-one, there would be thousands of possible ways of putting the car together and they would have to predict what people want (plus manufacturing would be more complicated). When I got my Corolla 12 years ago, there were no options, it was VE, CE, or LE, (low, middle, high) and that was it. It looks like there are 3 main configurations (no package, package A, package B) that they are coming in, with some variability with the little stuff (remote start, cargo package, etc.). The packages however seem slightly different for different parts of the country (if you go to the website and put in different zip codes you can see how they are shipping them to different areas) - I noticed that the package B for my dealers here in Cincinnati is different than the package B from the dealer in Boston where I'm buying the car (a little).

I didn't believe sqb2003, but it seems he is right. After reading his post about getting a car from Lexus of Watertown (Massachusetts) and having it shipped to N.J., I e-mailed the dealer last week and got a not-so-good offer by e-mail. I replied to the e-mail on Friday and said "I heard you can do better than that," and while I was out of the office over the weekend they left 5 voice messages! I called them on Monday morning (yesterday) and over the phone they offered me a great deal - much like his - and e-mailed me a pdf of the car VIN and configuration. The MSRP as equipped is $48,259 (I verified it on Edmund's) giving an invoice of roughly ~43k, and they are selling it to me for $41,525. There will be $369 of doc fees, my local sales tax of course (6.5% for Cincinnati, OH), and then I'll do the registration/DMV stuff myself. The shipping company they recommended to me will charge about $700 to ship it to me. I went to my local dealer armed with this info, and they said they couldn't come close, even with the extra $700 I'm spending to ship it. They felt the $700 was reasonable since they recently shipped one from OH to CA for ~$1200. I'm still slightly dubious, but they are supposed to fax and then overnight the sales paperwork to me tomorrow (Wednesday) so I'll see if there's a hitch (hidden amounts). Either way, I'll post back once all is done and said. I don't know how they are doing it (neither does my local dealer) but there it is.

I live in Cincinnati, OH. The better lease deal was along the East Coast and as close to me as West Virginia. These were through LFS and as advertised on the dealer websites.