Application Fee?

[LarryRB]

Compshooter,
I bought a Kubota from a Pennsylvania dealer,living here in the New England area, and there was no app fee or other fees.,

 

[wfontjr]

There is a Ucc fee in texas also

 

[CompShooter]

Well my "local" dealer is actually across the Delaware in NJ. So according to Brian there is at least a $50 lien fee. But that still doesn't explain the other $50.

Thanks for the info.

 

[VA_Joe]

Sounds like additional dealer profit. I would think it would be priced into the tractor vice a fee charged after-the-fact.

 

[DUMBDOG]

It is ADP, additional dealer profit. When I purchased my Kubota, it was called a documentation fee. Either way it is the same thing.

The local dealer also does other things, you order a part as they do not stock very much at all, they charge you freight, even if it is a regular order. They also use a sliding scale to mark up parts a percentage over the suggested retail price, easy to do with the computers.

I have solved the problem by ordering a parts book from one of the dealers on this forum and will be ordering the parts there. If I am going to be paying the freight, might as well come right to the front door.

The local dealer does not stock much anyway, have not seen more than one L model there at a time and a couple of the other smaller models.

 

[fish6942]

I used Kubota's 180 days no interest deal. There was a $50 fee but if I recall the dealer said it was some type of regulatory charge (UCC??). This is in MN.

 

[DiezNutz]

It sounds like there is some part of the fee that the dealer isn't pocketing. Now it may very well be that some dealers are passing it along to you in the form of their sale price, while others are itemizing it out separately and perhaps even "padding it". Either way you'd be paying for it, so it's a matter of personal preference as to how you like your deception served to you.

Here's how I'd look at it: To use nice round figures, assume you're about to pull the trigger on $20K worth of tractor & goodies... $100 is only 0.5%. Heck, I'd be more upset about the 10X that or more you're going to **** away in sales tax.

Focus on the bottom line instead (yours as well as the dealers)... If the dealer that wants to gig you the 100 bucks still represents your overall best value, then you'd have be kinda simple in the head to want to avoid that fee by spending more somewhere else, right? We don't think you're that simple.

 

[MessickFarmEqu]

There is a $100 UCC fee in PA, but no Application or Doc fee's. At one point there was talk that it may have been illegal for us to be changing any additional fee's because of some screwey PA law.

Anyway, I am in PA - about two hours away from you... and we charge no Fee's.

 

[66gladiator]

Messick,
Didn't I see somewhere that the UCC fee is actually $168 in PA but that KCC only charges the customer $100?

BTW the UCC fee only applies when financing a tractor.
But a dealer can charge a documentation fee and some do. That is nothing out of the ordinary, matter of fact $100 is cheap compared to a car dealer's $400-$600 doc fee and then a dealer prep fee on top of that. Buy a new car or truck lately?
Remember the favorite saying of the real estate profession: Everything is negotiable!

 

[ahvatsa]

66
In Texas, the "Doc Fee" is capped at $50.00 by law. (Autos).