Yeah.... this is really true. Some of the people on the site who quote those low prices are just bragging about especially good deals they got -- and usually only when they haggled with an individual they bought it from directly, paying in full with cash.
In my own situation, I knew I didn't have the money to pay for one of these cars straight out, and I didn't want to own a total of 3 vehicles anyway. So my only option was looking for one at a dealer and trading in my Jeep. I managed to find a Crossfire that the dealer was originally asking around $22K for, but had JUST dropped the asking price to under $17K. IMO, I got a good deal because this was an SRT-6 convertible w/44K miles on it. But no, it didn't have flawless paint. (Besides some small scrapes on the rear bumper, it has a really odd ring shaped series of scrapes on the top, just to the right of the trunk lid. Looks like maybe a magnetic-mount CB antenna was there for a while and scraped it up...)
Originally Posted by
kalway
stop going to all the cut rate dealerships. You will hear far to many people on this site say that the going rate for these cars are about $5k less than they should be. I would not sell my 2004 Coup for less than $16k and would need well over $20k for my 2007 roadster.
If you want cheap, look some where else.