Same here - bought a Volvo through the Costco program, pretty easy, no negotiating. It worked out well for us and I would consider it again.

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The Costco process is super easy. I did the same as some others had said, found the vehicle I wanted at dealer 1. Went and got the Costco pricing on same vehicle at dealer 2. Went back to dealer 1 and negotiated knowing what I could get it for at dealer 2 and it worked out.

I helped my sister purchase a car through the Costco program in the last month or so. She's more of a "I don't want to deal with this, I wish I could buy a car from Amazon" type person (actual quote from her). So the Costco price made it super easy for her, the only thing that she negotiated was trade in value for her old car which was a one counter offer thing and done. She ended up paying less than she thought she would from her online research so she was happy.


I would also add, if you're trading in a car and have a CarMax close by, spend the 30 minutes to go get a quote from them to purchase your car. They give you an offer that is good for 7 days and they seem to buy cars for significantly more than dealerships offer. I then used the simple formula of:

Costco Price - CarMax Offer - $2,000 = What I want to pay

I was able to get fairly close to that.