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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1417419, member: 31533&quot;]I responded because you used MSRP and the analogy that that would be a good deal because separately the price would be like 3 times more, assuming someone would make their own Toyota at home. Whether a dealership rakes in more money with a service department, overselling services and with high priced aftermarket items is really not a topic I want to get into. I realize that the dealers make money on the buyers that don&#039;t know better and pay at or near (like within 150.00) MSRP as well as some car companies having a policy of no rebates because their cars are hyped as so wonderful. The fact remains that dealerships make money in the front door, the back door, and in the trade in (taking a car in trade for say 800.00 off the price of the new car, putting it through the shop in a day, and then off to their used/pre-owned lot for say 6500.00 or more dollars). Then they also make money on the extended warrenties, and add-ons. They also get paid by the company in being able to have cars put on their lot by how many they sell at the dealership each month. It is a strange world. They actually may make more money on everything other than the profit they want with MSRP vs what the car actually is worth at the moment it is &quot;sold&quot;. I am just not devaluing the profit they make from the sale of the car as insubstantial. They make plenty, much more than they would like the public to believe they made on the car. MSRP is only a value to target what they want to make from their sale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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