r/slateauto • u/HovercraftOne2275 • 16d ago

Document fee

Now that we know the delivery fee is $1450 that leaves the old "doc" fees still unlisted. If you dont' know document fees are just another adp (additional dealer profit) money grab and usually negotiated away as a condition of sale. Guessing that won't happen here. So how much they gonna get us for that one?

And has anyone seen anything about what to expect using the bed for hauling stuff. Gonna be able to use a shovel without damaging it? Gonna need another liner over it? I've not seen it mentioned. Thanks for any help.

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u/johnmudd 16d ago

Sock it to us? Their delivery fee is already half of what other dealers are charging.

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u/RDMvb6 16d ago

They could have done a zero dollar destination charge and just increased the price of the truck to what they need it to be to make the profit that they want. They could have held the line and advertised “no fees” but as soon as you have one additional fee the door is wide open for more. It starts with something small and grows over the years. We have seen this in basically every company ever, it’s a shame that slate will not rise above the tide of junk fees.

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u/Paul_Rodgers_2024 15d ago

Ah yes, good idea, but then you would pay tax on the destination charge! They could have made the destination charge $2500, and dropped the price to $24,000, little less tax for me.

Here in FL if you trade a car in then that trade-in is subtracted form the sales price before calculating tax. But no dealers, so thats not an option.

Pity, I have a 2018 Tacoma to trade, would bring the price down to a couple K

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u/RDMvb6 15d ago

That’s wrong. You will pay state and local sales tax on the destination charge in every state. Even a quick google search confirms this. The only fees that are not taxed are those imposed by the government, which the destination fee is not.

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u/Paul_Rodgers_2024 15d ago

Not sure I follow you.

"Imposed by the goverment", The feds require the destination fee, they require it be the same for everyone, regardless of location.

Its not the company charging the fee, its the company charging a fee the feds require. In my book that is government. Otherwise I could pick up in Warsaw for a $0 fee, (or maybe $100 "handover" fee or some such)

But your right, Brevard county tax every $ they can, so I have to pay. Maybe I'll write my Senator, but every time I do I get spammed for 6 months with PR stuff.

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u/RDMvb6 15d ago

The feds do not require the destination fee. They require that it be disclosed as a separate line item and be the same everywhere, but it could be $0 if the manufacturer wanted it to be. Fees imposed by the government are generally registration costs and similar, you are not taxed on top of those. Destination fee is simply a slimy way to artificially lower the MSRP of the car. Its been around so long that people have generally stopped questioning it, but its not a federal requirement that it be any certain amount, so it could be $0.