FRS Deposit, pre-order, or down payment yet?
 

Have any FRS buyers had any luck putting down some cash to guarantee a car yet? I went to my local dealer with my checkbook, and they had a nice argument with their GM. He wouldn't let them take a deposit or downpayment or anything yet.

Has anyone had any luck with that yet? I know the BRZ folks were able to put in orders already.

I've got $500 down on an FR-S. We will see if that actually means anything once the car comes in. They might just rip the check up and sell it first come first serve.

I just did, and have it in writing as a refundable deposit.

Hey which dealership did you go to? My dad works at the one in Burlingame. As far as I know, he already had a few old customers ask him about the FR-S. All he did was add him to a calling list to be notified when it comes, but I don't think they asked for a deposit. Although I haven't heard anything else than that.

I put my deposit down yesterday. I had to go to 2 dealerships because the first one was just going to sell them on a first come first serve basis. I guess it is being left up to the dealership whether or not they will take deposits.

When I put my deposit down, the salesman I was talking to went to get his boss and his boss actually tried to talk me out of leaving one. As it sits now, I am on the list to have first right of refusal on the ones that come in (basically when they do come in, people on the list will be notified and asked if they want the specific model that came in or if they want to wait on another).

I put a deposit down at one of the dealerships by me. They started taking deposits 3/22 and at 3/26, they already had about 10 people put deposits. They are also doing the call list thing though. If you don't answer the phone when the cars get in, they move onto to the next person on the list, and you lose your spot.

What dealer handleing, doc fees, etc. have you guys been quoted? Due to Pure Price the only negotation point is on D&H and I really don't think $499 on top of $24,930 for doing 20 minutes of paperwork is very cool.

Please share your experience with D&H fees - both good and bad.

Thanks in advance,
k

I went to Scion of Slidell (just north of New Orleans) and walked right up to a guy and said "Im looking to pre-order an FR-S". They gladly told me they would take a refundable $500 deposit, took all my information down, then asked me what color, trim, and transmission I wanted so they could put the order in ASAP. They said there is a chance they wont be able to get the exact car I want for the first shipment, but they will try their best. I was the 2nd person to put down a deposit. First was a chick who wanted a blue automatic. Im going for a red, base model, manual. Was told I would have first dibs on any red manual FR-S.

Interesting. Yeah they wouldn't take a deposit or anything. I'm on a call list though. I guess I'll have to keep watching for news of being able to actually pre-order at my local dealer and just head on over and get in line.

We are taking deposits on the FR-S at the dealership I work at. Also our Doc Fee is only $299, $499 seems a little high to me.

What do people mean when they say trim level. All of them are essentially the same trim level. You can choose color and transmission, that's it. It would be nice if you could build them online right now with a list of all the extras that are available from TRD, but that's wishful thinking.

Heh, tell the dealerships in San Jose to start accepting pre-orders. I'll gladly give them a check. I'll also be there on day 1 with cash in hand.

I've got a deposit in my area, tried to get two but one of the other dealerships is trying to charge a $1200 markup in addition to the scion.com prices.

Standard $500 check, clipped to the folder with the other files with pre-order info.

Apprentely there is going to be a black list, posted on the internet, for Scion dealers that charge above MSRP. Pure Price is their marketing term after all and I'm sure corportate will not like rogue dealers.

k

Your "deposit" counts as a down payment, right? My local Scion dealership wants $1000 refundable to get on the list, but I assume that's $1000 off the final purchase price, right? It's not $1000 on top of whatever it is