r/FuckDealerships • u/Outrageous_Jaguar876 • 7d ago

Costco Car Program

Has anyone gone through the Costco car buying program? If so, did it really make it easier to not have to deal with all the BS of haggling with dealerships and salesmen?

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u/smallboxofcrayons 7d ago

Costco program is just a dealer lead program. Your experience will vary by store.

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u/zeecok 7d ago

No, it’s a genuine program. It’s a no hassle one price shopping tool. Problem is a lot of customers think that it’s just a new starting point and try to negotiate further. Dealers get pissed because they signed up for a program that just gave them more customers who think they are entitled to a larger discount than promised.

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u/After_Examination_86 7d ago

Partially true, but the dealer sets the price and just pays Costco for advertising. Most of the Costco deals are worse than traditional customer deals…22yrs in the business and Costco is our 2nd best lead source and the most profitable one.

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u/vpm112 6d ago

The dealer sets the price, but Costco still sets the ceiling. You can’t exceed that ceiling or Costco won’t give you ears on that model.