Dealer fees are OOC: "Good luck"

Ceramic coating is the biggest BS they all add now. Thieves

The M5 E60 with the V10 is one of my favorite automobiles ever produced.

What a beast...

Simply don't pay them and they will remove them. This is not rocket science.

He was about 2-3K high on price already.

I told him, " Thanks and good luck".

M5 Competitions w/ sunroof and not the carbon roof are a bit hard to find, but not impossible.

He's probably got 82-83 in it and looking to make 10 on the deal.

He can hang on to it.

BMW's age like milk.

Not doing a subtle brag, honestly.

I was pretty impressed to see that much of a fee structure on a used car.

quote:

---

Ceramic coating is the biggest BS they all add now. Thieves

---

Friend of mine owns probably the largest auot mod place here in town and he said it's absolute garbage and an utter waste of money.

Id walk just because if the 8 bullshite

In car pricing, ending a price with 8 is a common practice rooted in psychological pricing and cultural influences:
Psychological pricing ("charm pricing")
Prices ending in 8 (like $28,998 or $35,888) feel lower than a round number. The brain processes $28,998 as closer to $28,000 than $29,000, even though it's nearly $29,000.
Chinese cultural influence
The number 8 is considered extremely lucky in Chinese culture because it sounds like the word for "prosperity" or "wealth" (?, fa). Dealerships — particularly luxury brands like BMW, Mercedes, and Lexus — often use 8-endings to appeal to Chinese-American buyers or in markets like China, where an 8-heavy price can be seen as auspicious.
Industry-wide convention
It became a standard convention in auto pricing, so even dealerships without a specific cultural motivation use it simply because competitors do — and because it works to make prices feel more calculated and less arbitrary than a round number.
Differentiation from retail
Unlike most retail goods that end in 9 (the classic $9.99 trick), car prices tend to use 8 — giving the same psychological "just under" effect while feeling distinct from everyday consumer pricing.
So in short: it makes the price feel lower, may signal good fortune to some buyers, and has become an ingrained industry habit.

I've got a car inbound that with Carmax that I'm going to likely buy and the listings all have this on the price: "Price excludes tax, title, tags, and $199 CarMax processing fee (not required by law)."

I'm curious about the "not required by law" part. I'm assuming this is just a random fee that they apply and can legally charge it but it's a Carmax not a state-driven fee?

quote:

---

Ceramic coating is the biggest BS they all add now. Thieves

---

Dealerships just use a spray on ceramic during a normal hand wash.

quote:

---

Dealerships just use a spray on ceramic during a normal hand wash.

---

Every vehicle I've purchased in the past 15 years I've asked the dealership to not have their people wash it.

They do a terrible job. And they like to spray that cheap greasy dressing all over everything.

The last truck I bought, the dealer ignored me, and their people sprayed that grease dressing everywhere, even on the floor mats and pedals. So every time I had to stop on the way home my foot kept on slipping off the brake pedal.