Which dealer did you choose?

[UggBoots]

BMW Bellevue, a Sakhir Orange M4 showed up on December 20th with everything I wanted, I picked it up the same day a couple grand under MSRP.

[djhex36]

Originally Posted by UggBoots

BMW Bellevue, a Sakhir Orange M4 showed up on December 20th with everything I wanted, I picked it up the same day a couple grand under MSRP.

Are you in downtown Bellevue a lot? I may have spotted you a few times.

[mdrobc13]

BMW Northwest...3 BMWs later always got a good deal from them. Recent M3 purchase was not over MSRP (no markup) and got a few $$ more on my trade than any other offer.

[Lups]

Originally Posted by mdrobc13

BMW Northwest...3 BMWs later always got a good deal from them. Recent M3 purchase was not over MSRP (no markup) and got a few $$ more on my trade than any other offer.

There is a meet tomorrow, check it out man!

[Serious]

Originally Posted by Lups

There is a meet tomorrow, check it out man!

What kind of deals are people getting these days? Bellevue would only offer 2500 off msrp for an M3. Seattle wouldn't even negotiate when I mentioned people were getting these things within $1000 of invoice.

Haven't contacted northwest or Oregon dealerships yet.

[Bonzer103]

Don't expect much movement towards invoice in PDX either. $1500 off of MSRP appears to be the norm.

[SierraZulu9]

Bellevue BMW. I bought my Austin yellow f82 from Bellevue. ALL of my BMWs have been from Bellevue. Bellevue has been selling their M4s and M3s real quick. I ended up ordering mine with them because I wanted certain options and packages. They had really good set ups there. All the Austin yellow M4s had blacked out kidneys and side grills.

[Lups]

Originally Posted by Serious

What kind of deals are people getting these days? Bellevue would only offer 2500 off msrp for an M3. Seattle wouldn't even negotiate when I mentioned people were getting these things within $1000 of invoice.

Haven't contacted northwest or Oregon dealerships yet.

Hi.

Contact our forum dude golffr. As for the locals I'd still go for Seattle. Show up in a meet and you'll get stories. Bellevue has their own personal hater club.

[Serious]

Originally Posted by Lups

Hi.

Contact our forum dude golffr. As for the locals I'd still go for Seattle. Show up in a meet and you'll get stories. Bellevue has their own personal hater club.

Everyone keeps recommending them but they only offer $2k off and rarely have open allocations correct?

I was offered a better deal than that from local dealerships.

[TTG]

Originally Posted by Serious

Everyone keeps recommending them but they only offer $2k off and rarely have open allocations correct?

I was offered a better deal than that from local dealerships.

Never had a good experience with Seattle's sales department (I do service my cars there though). They think they are doing you a favor by selling you a $80K car.

Contact Alvin at BMW Bellevue and he will give you the best possible deal he can (for further details send me a PM)

I only do EDs and Alvin has always been a great help.

UNFORTUNATELY, Golfers deals do not work WA State folks for the following reasons:

-None of our dealers will do courtesy deliveries which will be required if you order a car from CA and want local delivery (or they want $500-$1K to do so)
--A friend of mine did this and had a horrible experience.

-If you choose to take delivery of your car in CA, you will have to pay full CA taxes and once again pay taxes when you register the car in WA (not sure how this will work with a leased car)

-If you choose to get your car shipped up here, shipping costs do equal to the savings difference between local dealers and Steve Thomas.

If I am missing something, please chime in.

As stated on my previous response, I also had great luck with E. WA dealers in the past.

I have no problem with driving 300 miles to save thousands.

[mdrobc13]

Originally Posted by SierraZulu9

Bellevue BMW. I bought my Austin yellow f82 from Bellevue. ALL of my BMWs have been from Bellevue. Bellevue has been selling their M4s and M3s real quick. I ended up ordering mine with them because I wanted certain options and packages. They had really good set ups there. All the Austin yellow M4s had blacked out kidneys and side grills.

Yeah believe I saw that one there. Said a customer custom ordered it then backed out. Is this it?

[Lups]

Originally Posted by TTG

Never had a good experience with Seattle's sales department (I do service my cars there though). They think they are doing you a favor by selling you a $80K car.

Contact Alvin at BMW Bellevue and he will give you the best possible deal he can (for further details send me a PM)

I only do EDs and Alvin has always been a great help.

UNFORTUNATELY, Golfers deals do not work WA State folks for the following reasons:

-None of our dealers will do courtesy deliveries which will be required if you order a car from CA and want local delivery (or they want $500-$1K to do so)
--A friend of mine did this and had a horrible experience.

-If you choose to take delivery of your car in CA, you will have to pay full CA taxes and once again pay taxes when you register the car in WA (not sure how this will work with a leased car)

-If you choose to get your car shipped up here, shipping costs do equal to the savings difference between local dealers and Steve Thomas.

If I am missing something, please chime in.

As stated on my previous response, I also had great luck with E. WA dealers in the past.

I have no problem with driving 300 miles to save thousands.

I can't say anything about the taxes, it would be second hand information and I rather not share that since accuracy is an issue. I can however tell the shit I've gotten.

Now, Bellevue and I are all over this forum and it did not go well. To be fair, I am really friendly person to anyone I think can need one, so blame is on me too for that.

I did go to BMW seattle to get an 335i to the hubby, and I did know the sales people didn't know me there and it was like drawing a car for the first time. The sales person never asked any questions of importance from me, he was kind of waiting for the manager to walk in and tell him this all was an exercise and he was so out when I asked about things I could mod. I would've left with feeling like shit if I had not faced other dealers in this country before this.

I told him in the end that he sucked balls, and that I wouldn't buy a car from him and he smiled and asked what I drive then. His face fell when I pointed to my car.

Now, to the Seattle's service department. They are the best. They know the people, the history, they keep notes, hell, my car? It has it's own mechanic. That man took time from his day and let me explain what was wrong with my car. He took his time to get through my badly worded explanation and he and I work through the lack of knowledge (me) and the lack of vocabulary (me).

So, I wouldn't actually buy a car here, I would go to Golffrr, but I would get everything else handled by seattle.

Ovaries kill me in this country. I had Wah to get me a fucking manual car. that bad.

[Wah]

Originally Posted by Lups

So, I wouldn't actually buy a car here, I would go to Golffrr, but I would get everything else handled by seattle.

Ovaries kill me in this country. I had Wah to get me a fucking manual car. that bad.

Hey it worked out perfectly. You got you car, you got your trip, and you paid less than you would have in WA. So stfu!

[Lups]

Originally Posted by Wah

Hey it worked out perfectly. You got you car, you got your trip, and you paid less than you would have in WA. So stfu!

Ego still in bits remember?!

[Xerxes480]

Originally Posted by TTG

Contact Alvin at BMW Bellevue and he will give you the best possible deal he can (for further details send me a PM)

I only do EDs and Alvin has always been a great help.

I've purchased from BMW of Bellevue before, and overall I've been happy with their service department.

However, back in August when I was shopping M3s they flat out refused to do an ED. Same story at Seattle. Ridiculous. This is why I took my business to Tacoma, and they were awesome to work with.

Funny side note...last night I did the lease return on my 535 at Bellevue. The guy got all affronted when I told him I already purchased an M3 from Tacoma. I had to educate him - next time don't piss off your repeat customers!

-X-

[Serious]

Originally Posted by Xerxes480

I've purchased from BMW of Bellevue before, and overall I've been happy with their service department.

However, back in August when I was shopping M3s they flat out refused to do an ED. Same story at Seattle. Ridiculous. This is why I took my business to Tacoma, and they were awesome to work with.

Funny side note...last night I did the lease return on my 535 at Bellevue. The guy got all affronted when I told him I already purchased an M3 from Tacoma. I had to educate him - next time don't piss off your repeat customers!

-X-

Yep. I bought my e46 m3 and mz4 coupe from them and still only offering $2500 over invoice. Get real, in 2 months the LCI is going to be out and no one is going to want a 2015.

I'll contact northwest and Oregon dealerships to see what they can do.

[SierraZulu9]

Originally Posted by mdrobc13

Yeah believe I saw that one there. Said a customer custom ordered it then backed out. Is this it?

No, But I saw that one sitting on the floor. That was back when BMW had the carbon fiber shortage so Bellevue didn't have any M4s with the CF roof. So I ordered one with it. It should be here in a few days ;-) ... I didnt like the austin yellow until I saw that one in person.

[BMWCAT]

I ended up ordering the car in New York... yea it's kind of far, but they gave me a really good lease rate! And promise to deliver it to my front door

[Lups]

Originally Posted by pups06112003

I ended up ordering the car in New York... yea it's kind of far, but they gave me a really good lease rate! And promise to deliver it to my front door

I drove mine from NJ. Best spent miles of my life.

[lpphreakx06]

BMW of Portland...David Pagladski will take care you of you. The whole staff there is very friendly. My friends and I have bought around 10 cars from him.

[UggBoots]

Originally Posted by djhex36

Are you in downtown Bellevue a lot? I may have spotted you a few times.

I work in the City Center area, so depends on what you call downtown Bellevue. I live over in Sammamish, so my commute is generally 90->Bellevue Way->City Center. I haven't seen another SO M4 in Bellevue (yet) but I have seen a YMB M4 with Seahawks tags and my buddy at work has a YMB M4 as well. I've seen a couple of MW M4s, I don't think I've seen any M3s yet.

If you think you might be spotting me, check the front splitters and spoiler if you can get close enough. I have an SO edge stripe on both the spoiler and the front CF splitters. (And no front plate)

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[HuskyBMW]

I live just south of Portland and ended buying my M3 from Seattle BMW and got the best deal by far. Actually pick car up this weekend. I am paying $4k below MSRP. Ask for Zach, that's who I worked with and he has been great thru the whole process.