Waiting in Seattle

I just did a quick autotrader.com search. Foothills in Burlington "says" they have 14 in stock. Magic claims to have some as well.

Icarus

 

The dealer websites will often list cars in stock, however if you call them you'll find that all the cars are spoken for....

 

Re: Waiting in Seattle/Costco Pricing

congrats on your purchase!!

i also found that estimated waiting periods mean nothing. when the list is that long, buyers 2nd guessing is a huge unquantified factor. i got mine from Toyota of Olympia (both of mine in fact) and they first told me 8-12 weeks as well. but as luck would have it, my first choice for package and color came up. two people who also had the same first choice as me, backed out, and more than a dozen rejected the package option. so i got mine in less than 2 weeks.

 

An update on Downtown Seattle Toyota: I was still on their waiting list even though I picked up my Prius from Bremerton on 6/11. Got a call on Wed, June 25th from Seattle. They had two package 3's coming in from Portland, one grey, one blue. My mother-in-law decided she needed to keep her gas-guzzling Caddy and turned the opportunity for a Prius down! So two more people got to move up the list. So, their estimate of a one-month wait was right on, for anyone still waiting or needing to place an order. If you can, placing deposits with multiple dealers (Seattle didn't even take money, just a copy of my DL), can result in getting your car a lot sooner. Just make sure they're refundable and be open to color choices! I don't see many Driftwood Pearls around, and it doesn't seem to be a popular choice, so maybe that's how I got mine so quick.

 

I can't believe it - a friend of ours was able to pick up a package #2 that someone rejected at MSRP. Now of course the dealer should have called down the list, ahem, but didn't, so our friends are happy! They told me that while looking last week, they saw some dealers with used cars just sitting on the lot, but they were asking $2,000 above MSRP.