Costco, AAA, purchase services

[SH66]

Anybody have any experience with Costco, or AAA purchasing services or things like TrueCar? Could you share what you think. Also should there ever be a marketing or advertising fee the Hyundai tags onto the Monroney invoice. I once purchased a Toyota that had no charge for marketing on the window invoice, yet they tagged on $500 for advertising. I called AAA, not sure the person really knew, but they said it was legit. Did the dealer in this case just make another $500 in profit. Thanks

 

[thane11]

Anybody have any experience with Costco, or AAA purchasing services or things like TrueCar? Could you share what you think. Also should there ever be a marketing or advertising fee the Hyundai tags onto the Monroney invoice. I once purchased a Toyota that had no charge for marketing on the window invoice, yet they tagged on $500 for advertising. I called AAA, not sure the person really knew, but they said it was legit. Did the dealer in this case just make another $500 in profit. Thanks

With AAA and Costo you don't get the price from them. They have a salesman from the dealership call you. I prefer Truecar because you get the price directly from Truecar and the price was lower than Costco and AAA.

Also, if you're a Consumer Reports subscriber you can get their price as well. They use Truecar as their engine but the price was lower than going directly to Truecar.

Finally, I'd use Truecar as a starting point. And ask for something lower knowing you can always fall back to the Truecar price.

 

[Analog]

Best deals can be had through Hyundai Circle. Let us know if you need more info on it. Biggest downside is you have to take delivery from what's in stock.

 

[lobsenza]

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