The Clevite Kid

In Miami-Dade County and Broward County: What are the garbage fees that each Chevy dealer adds? I know by state law, if they charge one customer the fee, the must charge all the customers the same fee. I am eligible for GM Supplier pricing, but GM allows the dealer to charge any garbage fee they want.

So, I would like to compile a list of the fees from all of the Chevy dealers in SoFla for our benefit. Felix Sabates Chevy in Homestead charges $695, which is actually low by SoFla standards - Florida has the highest garbage fees in the country.

As you add your data in this thread I will edit this post to have all the data at the top.

Felix Sabates Chevy Homestead FL $695
Autonation Chevrolet Greenacres, FL $699.95

oh1vette

One of my pet peeves doc fees....

Flame Red

Lorenzo-Bomen is one of those with the high fees. I had a long discussion with the owner about those. Pure Extra Stealer Profit.

Take my advice, forgo the local Stealerships and order what you want from one of the Forum vendors and opt for courtesy delivery or better still, pick it up from the museum, pick it up and drive it home, or have them transport it. In the end it will be a more pleasant experience and cheaper.

Bucknut2006

GM limits the fee to $75I believe if they give you supplier or employee pricing. I know for a fact that the last 6 GM vehicles I purchased had that stipulation. That was across three dealerships and two states.

I believe the "and" in the wording prevents anything beyond $75 in most states.

meyerweb

Dealers are independent businesses. In the absence of any laws to the contrary (or manufacturer imposed contractual limits), they can charge you anything they want, and you can choose to buy the car from them or not, or try to negotiate the fee. Some states do limit the size of such fees, others don't address them at all. If you tell a dealer you won't pay it, and get up and walk out the door, they might find a way to accommodate you.

It's no different than, say, a cell phone bill, where they say your cost is $80 per month, and then add $17 worth of fees and service charges.

The Clevite Kid

"Documentation Fees
Dealers may charge a documentation fee up to the amount allowable by state law. Each dealer is responsible for complying with applicable laws and regulations."

And I forgot to state in my OP, I am buying a Silverado Pickup, so Museum Delivery is not an option. I DID use RC8 for my C6, and highly recommend it, as well as purchasing from Tommy Jr. at McMulkin, who did not even charge the $75 fee then allowed.

67435animal

Autonation Chevrolet Greenacres, FL $699.95

Bill Dearborn

Some of them have to charge the same fee with every Customer. The thing is you can negotiate the amount by having them increase/reduce something else.

Doc fees are a sharp stick in the eye of the Customer and the dealer needs to know you consider them an insult and will walk if they don't do something to make them go away.

Bill

sly-1

I walked away from a deal last year because the dealer would not drop the absurd doc fee. Of course, the salesman called me several days later to see if I wanted to come by and "work something out" but I had already negotiated a better deal elsewhere and had it in my driveway. I guess they thought I was bluffing. lol I have not paid one yet and will not ever. The doc fee is just a back door way of increasing profits so they can advertise lower prices. It is a shady practice that should be regulated by law.

The way I handle the doc fee is I don't ask about it until I have negotiated the actual sales price. When they bring the paperwork in and go through what I will be paying and mention doc fee (they always try to blow through it real quick and act like it is a required fee) I just stop them there and say I don't pay doc fees. They try to give me the "We have to charge the doc fee" and we go round and round. If they won't just mark it off, I tell them to just back it out of the sales price or whatever they have to do as long as my total out the door has the doc fee deducted from the previous total. If they don't remove it somehow, I am out the door.