Buyers are suffering from gas-price sticker shock and are sitting on liquid assets until they get a better fix on where the economy is actually going.
Car buyers pay for labour, steel and paint, but the price sticker may not reflect the full cost of the noxious goo the car factory spills into a river.
Now, the company apparently plans to cut the price as well, by introducing a budget Leaf next year in a bid to come up with a more palatable sticker price.
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Better to be selling Toyota Priuses, which leave the lot at a price above the sticker.
We don't know what the final sticker price is going to be on this thing.
Some of your sticker price is going to end up in the pocket of a tort lawyer.
So, keeping with the car analogy, participants do not even know the sticker price of the vehicle.
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The sticker price at Princeton or Stanford, including room and board, is upward of fifty thousand dollars a year.
On the other hand, if the unemployment rate increases, then cars will likely be preferred over trucks due to its lower sticker price.
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The discounts at many private institutions are now at 50% or higher, so net tuition revenue is less than half the sticker price.
Or at least close enough in cost that people actually buy the product based on lifecycle costs rather than just the initial sticker price.
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The reality is that very few families actually pay the sticker price and trying to save that amount would be too daunting for most people anyway.
Shoppers can expect unpopular and overstocked models to be offered with the deepest discounts, while the hottest-selling rides may still command at or close to sticker price.
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Consumers are told the sticker price of the whole car and make their decisions based upon that information, not based upon the price of all the various components.
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Last year, the median sticker price at about 280 private colleges and universities tracked by the debt-rating firm rose 3.9%, the smallest increase in at least 12 years.
Under a scheme of this sort, which some housing experts proposed in 2009, the long-term cost of a housing bailout would have been substantially smaller than its sticker price.
Your list can include community colleges, state universities, institutions offering two-year degree programs, private colleges (regardless of sticker price), colleges close to home and colleges away from home, even out-of-state.
If they are so in demand that dealers can charge thousands over the sticker price and still they are flying off the lots, just build the cars and they will come.
Suppose someone buys a new limited-edition car that happens to appreciate, rather than depreciate like most cars, so that it can be sold a year later for more than the original sticker price.
So why should anyone get excited about a mildly electrified luxury sedan that saves a few miles per gallon and carries a sticker price that can reach well into six figures with options?
Depreciation is the biggest factor in determining how much a vehicle will cost the owner--most new cars lose anywhere between 10% and 20% of their sticker price the moment they leave the lot.
There is no reason other than massive taxation of more than 50 percent and consumer naivete that thinks paying the sticker price of a BMW X5 is the same value as buying a Cherokee.
Homeowners, if qualified, will be able to knock off a few bucks of the sticker price as the turbine is eligible for local, state, and federal incentives including a 30 percent federal tax credit.
Samsung's high-end smartphones are priced similarly to their iPhone counterparts in the U.S. But Samsung's devices have been significantly discounted at times, to less than a quarter of the sticker price in some cases.
That is, over the past generation the most selective schools in the country got into the habit of listing a high sticker price and then discounting that price as needed in order to fill a class.
Some CNN.com users recently shared their stories of buying used Geo Metros -- the oft-maligned, snail-sized car from the 1990s that gets gas mileage similar to a hybrid of today for a fraction of the sticker price.
But in the same period, the share of instruction costs paid for by actual tuition not the sticker price, but the amount students actually pay after financial aid has nearly doubled, to 40 percent from 23 percent.
Moreover, by offering increasingly generous packages to students who haven't demonstrated a need, private colleges and universities make haggling and bickering the norm, and direct too many dollars away from families that can't afford the high sticker price and whose needs therefore go unmet.
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