Well put . . . when the Speedsters brought a $100,000 ADM my neighbor quickly bought one for his daughter . . . as long as a buy exists . . . hurray for the dealer.
I do appreciate that dealers need to be sensitive to the folks who have bought 9 Porsches in the past as to not make them feel "screwed" as the dealer realizes these opportunities. It's just a "hey , we have 9 folks interested in 2 cars . . . one way to allocate the 2 cars is to set the price as a point where 7 bail out". I'd bail, by wife (who has had 9 Turbo variants) would not)
I'm kind looking, don't need, a car now and have simply tendered a deal and told them . . . "look, I've got 8 cars, need another like a kick in the shins . . but, just put this in the hopper. When you get to the point where it's possible, I'm a buyer",
I suspect it'll be 2024.
I'm in the same boat you were . . . it's not my problem. . . just a social and commercial phenomenon to observe.
That leaves the other arm of the business doing service and parts to make up the rest.
The shame here is that the evidence, albeit anecdotal, is pretty sketchy with regard to supporting the dealer network as the best place for service. My personal experiences . . were the first time I took it in . . . just to have Porsche Car Connect code entered . . they charged $100 for about 5 minutes it took to enter 6 numbers in the PCM. Good for them. I got a free cup of coffee and a Little Debbie mini-donut for "free".
The next time . . .when the piping for the rear window washer had fractured . . .they had the car for 13 days (loved the snappy Panamera loaner and got my fill of haptic) and the car was retuned absent some of the parts, pieces and rear package shelf. I made the 2 hour drive back the following week to collect the leftover parts after the service.
It my eyes . . it just makes the forum that more valuable. I just passed 50,000 miles and have done the rear brakes and keep having dealers tell me that the front at due every 15,000 miles . . but the local Indy . . who has an incredible reputation actually puts the car on a lift, pulls the wheel and shows me the remaining pad and unsecured rotor . . ."if you needed them, trust me, we'd do them and take your money". They'll get done in the next month . . . but didn't need done at 19,000 or at 35,000.
I have one dealer I have had decent dealings with but try to stay alert on each visit and also try to get a sense of what I am getting into.
I watched when that woman posted her quote here last year and all the prices of things, quoted from the dealer, were 2 and 3 times what you could but the Porsche OEM parts from Suncoast for. There is a reason that dealer service is the HUGE profit center . . so many folks simply drop their car off figuring "it is what it is" . . . while true . . .it's mostly true because the head in the sand folks allow and tolerate the practice. Dealers are not inherently bad . . we encourage and allow it.
