GIR the better you are repaired you are the better deal you will get and NEGOTIATE you dictate what you want to pay and never make a deal based on a payment also have your financing taken care of before go in there and if you have good credit you are in the drivers seat. when i bought my truck i took the extra 1000.00 rebate from ford motor credit and refinanced with my credit union and if they tell ya that you have to finance Thu fmc for for x amount of months ignore it as you can finance the next day if you want too they will tell that b.s. glad to hear you are coming back from overseas i work at edwards afb on f-16s good luck

 

I tried Costco and the closest participating dealer to cinci was 2 hours...

 

what you do is call that dealer find out the costco price and have other dealer beat the price NEGOTIATE NEGOTIATE if ya got sams around call them.

 

I would look for one on a lot, there are plenty. You should get 12-15% off with rebates for a total of 8-12 grand off. I was looking at an FX4 for 43k with invoice pricing and rebates it was about 34k. I would also look at the backup camera and the Sony sound system. I prefer 3:73 gears and the FX4 locker. MSRP minus rebates is not a good deal, there is another 3-4 grand in the sticker price you need to get.

 

get invoice price, then get all the rebates/incentives from the manufacture.

They are still making 3% holdback off you and 1.25% if they are a blue oval certified dealer.

document fees should be no higher than $75.

 

jetech, I had bad luck trying the CostCo member purchasing program...they were only able to get me a 5% discount and I ended up getting a much better deal by negotiating the purchase myself. My thoughts are that CostCo is good for folks who don't want to negotiate with a dealer - but you (at least in my case) will pay substantially more. No offense implied - just sharing my experience with the CostCo Member program - you may have had great luck with them

 

Gir - didn't receive anything from you Shoot me a PM if you are still interested in talking with my friend.

 

I just bought a 2010 FX4 loaded minus some of the smaller bed accessories through www.encs.com I saved 18% off retail. I looked into getting the extra $500 off for the student incentive bit it required using Ford Financing. I forget Ford's borrowing rate but it was a lot higher than the 5.18% I got through USAA. When comparing the price to USAA's buyers plan they couldn't beat ENCS. I also went with ENCS because the entire sale was completed over the internet and email and it was very easy. I am currently still on deployment but due to return just before Christmas. I didn't want to have to haggle over price of a truck when I got back especially when I learned about the sales tax tax deduction currently good through the end of the year. If time permits I will pick up my truck the day after I get back. Merry Christmas to me! I probably could have saved more if I wanted to spend the time and effort haggling with the dealers when I got back but I wanted to get home and pick up my new truck stress free and take it easy. The one thing I did not want to do is get home and "work" trying to find the "best" deal I could find.