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Consumer Reports offers a "Build and Buy" car pricing/buying program to its subscribers. It is supposed to give potential buyers the "right price" to pay for a new car. It further says "you'll know what you should pay before leaving your home or talking to a dealer".
My wife is a subscriber so I used her log-in to check what they say the appropriate price should be for a new C7. I had done this a few months ago and was surprised to see it suggested the appropriate price to pay was above MSRP. From reading much info about pricing on this forum, it is clear to me that nobody should be paying more than MSRP for their new C7. I paid less than MSRP from a medium size local dealer that only gets 10 annual allocations. I should have posted this earlier but I thought it was a temporary thing at the time that would change shortly. However I checked it several times and even today it still suggests the target price for a base model C7 is above MSRP. I haven't seen any other sites like Edmunds etc. suggesting a price above MSRP.
For a new base model C7 it gives a target price of $56,992. It adds a note "Due to limited availability or high demand, the Target Price is above the manufactures suggested retail price of $53,995". The web site is www.ConsumerReports.org/cr/carsavings214. Again, you have to be a subscriber to their magazine.
I was going to offer some comments here regarding this but I think I'll leave it up to Forum members to comment.
My wife is a subscriber so I used her log-in to check what they say the appropriate price should be for a new C7. I had done this a few months ago and was surprised to see it suggested the appropriate price to pay was above MSRP. From reading much info about pricing on this forum, it is clear to me that nobody should be paying more than MSRP for their new C7. I paid less than MSRP from a medium size local dealer that only gets 10 annual allocations. I should have posted this earlier but I thought it was a temporary thing at the time that would change shortly. However I checked it several times and even today it still suggests the target price for a base model C7 is above MSRP. I haven't seen any other sites like Edmunds etc. suggesting a price above MSRP.
For a new base model C7 it gives a target price of $56,992. It adds a note "Due to limited availability or high demand, the Target Price is above the manufactures suggested retail price of $53,995". The web site is www.ConsumerReports.org/cr/carsavings214. Again, you have to be a subscriber to their magazine.
I was going to offer some comments here regarding this but I think I'll leave it up to Forum members to comment.