If I had bought a Prius Prime a few months back I could have gotten $1000 cash back from Toyota, plus a $4500 federal tax credit. Right off the bat I would have beat your haggle by $1500. What a haggler I would have been!
But seriously-- if we're comparing "no haggle" to "haggle" then it doesn't really make sense to include the manufacturer rebates in your total. You'd presumably get those even if dealerships didn't exist.
Fair... It was $800 cash back from subaru and a $200 charity match. however the dealer just tossed in the $200 for the match so they could make the sale and pump up their charity numbers. So $800 of that $4k was a thing you would have gotten anyway. So I only dropped the price $3200. Still a good hourly rate.
Yes. But that's like the Mitch Hedberg joke where he sees stacks of Sam's Cola at Sam's Club for 25 cents and suddenly in his mind he's become a soda salesman.
"Hi, would you like to buy a can of soda for 50 cents? It's warm, because this is a half-ass deal..."
Heh I was referring to the fact that used 2019 models with 40k miles on them currently will sell for MORE than MSRP for a brand new car, because the used one is on the lot and available, the new ones are 6 months out.
But seriously-- if we're comparing "no haggle" to "haggle" then it doesn't really make sense to include the manufacturer rebates in your total. You'd presumably get those even if dealerships didn't exist.