Purchasing a Tacoma with cash

Why is so difficult to purchase any type of vehicle nowadays with cash in hand? I walk into 6 Toyota dealerships from Key West to Miami and was turn down every single time. Finally drove all the way to Fort Meyers in order to get a deal in a 2017 Taco. Why dealership want to finance everything & pass in a sure sale cost you paying the vehicle off?

 

Because they make money on financing and it's hard to pull a fast one on someone when there's nowhere to hide hidden fees. They want to take you for all you got. They don't care if it gets repo'd in a couple months, they got their money.

 

By "cash" do you mean actual currency (paper, coins etc)? Or are you talking giving them a check or certified money order or something else other than financing?
Currency, may make you look like you just walked away from committing a bank heist!

 

We wrote a check for 40 thousand dollars and they took it with great respect and willingness ... I cannot imagine one single dealer let alone 6 of them turning down a sure sale, cash or otherwise.

 

I walk in every dealership with my debt card with the intention of buying a vehicle. Nothing else, no extended warranty, no Lo-Jack etc etc. All I heard was a bunch of BS on why I should never purchased a vehicle out right without financing. Only in America nowadays...

 

Gave my dealer a personal check for $1000 when I ordered the truck ...and then, on delivery, gave them a personal check for the balance - no questions asked. Having purchased several vehicles over the years from them probably did not hurt. I asked how many sales were like this and the response was immediate -'quite a few'. - Clay

 

Perhaps you weren't offering enough cash.

 

Maybe cause I didn't want to purchase all the other bs that they dealership offer.

 

Bank draft did it for me

 

Bank draft did it for me, up in the great white north

 

I understand that, but don't understand why they would turn down a sale, for what you wanted and nothing else.

 

Briefcase of cash in south Florida might not be cool.

 

Fees on debit / credit cards (for them), back end earning on finance and the extra 1% hold back from TFS (if they can hook you there) are all motives for them to attempt to get you to finance.

 

Homestead Toyota had a SR for 29.5 out the door. So I offer 28.9 and I was turn down. Over 600$ Are you kidding me?

 

Me in the 80's.. Today No bueno

 

Don't know what dealer cost is that particular rig. If your offer was within their profit range, I can't imagine they would let you walk

 

I sense there is more to the story. Any store anywhere, if you walk in with money to buy their product they will sell you their product. I paid cash for my truck with 0 argument from the dealer.

 

Anyways I found a good deal down in Fort Meyers & I walk out the door with a 2017 SR5 access cab for 27.5. My gain there lost... I'm glad a got turn down more then a few times..

 

Maybe cause I was wearing my lucky Metallica Shirt...