I understand it cannot be removed; however, you can tell them you don't want to pay for it. They can figure it out from there. That Permaplate nonsense is a high margin item. Including it in a deal won't kill the deal for them from a profitability standpoint.
Good news and bad news--you're looking for the most common color (CW), and the least common (RR). As far as deals at or close to MSRP, they're out there, but not easy to find. If you're not finding them, I'd increase your search radius.
Just for future reference, if you have the leverage, you can absolutely decline something already put on the car and the dealer may eat it. Particularly spray-on BS like this because the cost of it is 95% profit and they would lose very little if you refused to pay for it. Even doc fees are negotiable. It's all a game and all that matters is the final number. However they get there is irrelevant.
People endorse or refer for the pleasant transaction despite the ADM. Not because they made a friend. Everyone negotiates differently and come from different circumstances. Same sales person doesn’t mean the same deal. At the very least the person is good to deal with.
Why is inventory better now than in July?
The inventory is better now for a few reasons but I think a major explanation is because production has clearly ramped up. They are up to nearly 20k global units shipped since releasing the 2023 model year, and we're only in the second model year of the 11th gen with many months of production still to go on the 2024 units. To put it in perspective, it wasn't until the third model year that Honda achieved this amount of global units on the FK8.
Finding RR at MSRP will be tough, but any other color is perfectly do-able. You should have bid up to MSRP for this brand new, dealer-listed CTR. The final bid was under MSRP
The buyer pays a fee of 5% of the final bid price.
