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The fees are non-negotiable but are also not advertised in a vehicle's base price.
To offset the rising fees, Consumer Reports recommends that buyers negotiate the bottom line.
If you've ever examined a car's window sticker, there's usually something added onto the vehicle's final MSRP called a "destination and delivery" fee. And it looks like those fees are increasing fast, according to a new Consumer Reports investigation.
After researching industry data from ChromeData, Consumer Reports found that destination fees jumped from an average of $839 in 2011 to $1,244 in 2020, the outlet's Mike Monticello wrote. "That's more than 2.5 times the rate of inflation," the story said.