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Is the Destination Fee on Price-Stickers Ripping us off?
Here's a topic that I think deserves some discussion...I haven't seen a lot of it in this forum. On many, but not necessarily all, new vehicles today, part of the final MSRP on factory window-stickers (irrespective of a second-sticker dealer-price-markup) will include a destination fee, which on today's new vehicles, is now often well above $1000.
Of course, it costs money for auto companies to ship new vehicles from the factories to the dealerships....which is usually done by truck-transporters, freight-trains, or, across oceans, by cargo-container ships. Fine, I get that.........money doesn't grow on trees. Trucks, trains, and ships use a lot of fuel. Nor do truck-drivers, train-engineers, and ship-captains work for free. Nor can new vehicles drive themselves from the assembly-plant to the dealerships (although you might not be able to convince Elon Musk of that LOL) . What I DON'T get, though, (and here may be the interesting discussion-part) is why all new vehicles from the same plant, no matter how far away the plants are from the dealership, have the same delivery-fee. Everyone who buys one of those new vehicles, irrespective of location, pays the same Destination Charge if your dealership is only a couple of miles from the plant or if the vehicle has to be shipped halfway around the world from a plant in Korea or China. By having only one fee, in effect, those who live very close to the factory (or buy their vehicles from a dealership close to the factor) are, as I see it, subsidizing the costs of shipping them long distances across the country or across the ocean.
Anybody got any comments on this? If so, Fire Away, Folks.
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Here's a topic that I think deserves some discussion...I haven't seen a lot of it in this forum. On many, but not necessarily all, new vehicles today, part of the final MSRP on factory window-stickers (irrespective of a second-sticker dealer-price-markup) will include a destination fee, which on today's new vehicles, is now often well above $1000.
Of course, it costs money for auto companies to ship new vehicles from the factories to the dealerships....which is usually done by truck-transporters, freight-trains, or, across oceans, by cargo-container ships. Fine, I get that.........money doesn't grow on trees. Trucks, trains, and ships use a lot of fuel. Nor do truck-drivers, train-engineers, and ship-captains work for free. Nor can new vehicles drive themselves from the assembly-plant to the dealerships (although you might not be able to convince Elon Musk of that LOL) . What I DON'T get, though, (and here may be the interesting discussion-part) is why all new vehicles from the same plant, no matter how far away the plants are from the dealership, have the same delivery-fee. Everyone who buys one of those new vehicles, irrespective of location, pays the same Destination Charge if your dealership is only a couple of miles from the plant or if the vehicle has to be shipped halfway around the world from a plant in Korea or China. By having only one fee, in effect, those who live very close to the factory (or buy their vehicles from a dealership close to the factor) are, as I see it, subsidizing the costs of shipping them long distances across the country or across the ocean.
Anybody got any comments on this? If so, Fire Away, Folks.
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DRIVING IS BELIEVING