I (soon I hope us) need you: I’d like to establish a Denver Cayman buying group. If you are ready to purchase at the end of this month (November 2006) and are in Denver or willing to purchase a car in Denver – please join me, we can negotiate better deals together!

Cayman owners I/we need your input: considering what you know today, having already gone through the buying experience, in retrospect what would you have negotiated with your dealer? Examples: I will hope to negotiate a free rental car with service visits – including warranty work, and have it written into the contact. I will request that the dealer leave their name off my car. I might have the dealer install a set of horns for free. – Those are easy negotiation points; please add any insightful ideas!

And, perhaps you have other great ideas on what might be done before, during and just after a Cayman deliver! I (we) want to know!

Finally, tell me/us how much you put down in the form of a deposit when ordering a Cayman.

Thank you in advance!!!

I shopped all 5 of the Denver area dealers and had the best luck in Colorado Springs. The two city dealers wouldn't consider discounting back in April. Boulder was about to be acquired by a different owner. Fort Collins didn't have 2006 allocations. That said, Colorado Springs was very accommodating. I was asked for a $2000 deposit which was never charged to my credit card, though I think this was an oversight. My salesman had a major heart attack days after my contract was signed. Excellent delivery experience as well. They are a new shop and are anxious to prove themselves.

Andy

Mitchell,

I suggest you re-read my response on the second page of your prior topic:

The Price You Paid

From your prior posts you were going to buy a car in San Francisco back in April of 2006, which would make sense since that's the area where you live. Now suddenly you haven't bought a car but are going to do a group buy in Denver instead? That's seems very "odd" to me, especially since your IP address still shows you in San Francisco, California.

Does this seem "odd" to anyone else???

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K-Man S

Ken - I live in Denver now; moreover, I am quite genuine about a Cayman buying group in Denver! Additionally, I thought the concept was now permissible since I have seen you allow buying groups since you last sympathetically admonished me against the practice.

I am a straightforward person. My IP address is 67.190.101.19 – my telephone number in Denver is 303/955-9229; if anyone wishes to discuss a Cayman buying group (in Denver – or perhaps elsewhere) please don’t hesitate to call.

Ideas…?

Thank you!

Mitchell,
Group buys are done by our advertisers and sponsors here, so my prior concern was that some Porsche dealer was "getting around" being an advertiser or sponsor by having someone come onto the site and try to drum up sales for them, hence a "group buy". If you want to get together with other buyers in the Denver area and try to negotiate a better deal on a car that's fine. It won't be an advertised group buy here, but you can request others contact you to form a group to try and achieve greater buying power. I hope that helps explain the concern, etc. We recently had to expose a leasing company in Houston that tried to subvertly advertise their leasing specials here without being an advertiser/sponsor of the site. I'm sure you understand I must error on the side of caution. Best of luck finding others in your area to approach a dealer with, let us know how you make out.

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K-Man S

Thank you - I will let everyone know what I/we find....

Thanx Andy - I'll look more closely at the dealer in Colorado Springs....

My dealer said rentals were free for life for any reason and I didn't even have to ask him that. In fact, the one time I was in their for something, even though it was for an hour or so, they were just about begging me to take a free rental.

Take their name off the car??? What dealer puts their name on a Porsche Do you mean the tag frames. My dealer wasn't even going to give me one because nobody wants advertising on their Porsche

I thought the car came with horns?

I think maybe you need to set your sights a lot higher ... like free floor mats (lots of luck) or reduced rates on aftermarket services. For example, I find out AFTER I had the work done that my dealer offered a reduced price on Clearbra from the exact same installer if bought when you buy the car. The same might be true for Lojack as Carmax offers reduced rates from the real rate if you buy from Lojack. Since these kinds of precedents have been set, you would need to find out what the dealers ALREADY offer and then try to reduce them further. BTW, the installers charge the dealer full price (as I was told) and the dealer is sucking up the extra fee but its NOT part of the Porsche MSRP.

The end of the month is coming - I am surprised I have not heard from anyone else in regard to approaching Denver Metro Dealers on a Cayman group buy; by myself it looks like I can get a 2007 Cayman S (order) at 3.5% above invoice... however, I think WE can do better....

Mitchell,
It could be that the email you registered with here kicks back (some Rocketmail account) so you might want to update your email in your profile using the control panel and allow others to send you email.

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K-Man S

Not only an hour before you made your request I had already updated my email here; accordingly, that's how the Cayman Club system reached me via email; my rocketmail account is down and Yahoo (owners) can't/haven't fixed it since it crashed Saturday.... Thanx.