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Not sure I know who "they" are but some dealers will and some won't, that's always been the case. I haven't purchased a new American car in the last 15 years that wasn't at Supplier price or lower and I'm not going to start now. I'll just wait until stock builds up, and it will, then find a dealer willing to move inventory. I'm in no rush.We shouldn't lose sleep on this. Doubt it they will grant this supplier price any time soon
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Mark, does supplier pricing reduce the profit of a dealership, or does it work like a rebate where GM eats the discount? I thought supplier pricing worked like rebates, but what you wrote above is leading me to think the dealership may have to eat the discount. Can you please clarify this for me since you have a lot of experience doing this before? Have you done supplier discounts specifically with GM before? Do all manufacturers operate the same way with respect to who eats the supplier discounts, or is GM different from, let's say, Ford?Not sure I know who "they" are but some dealers will and some won't, that's always been the case. I haven't purchased a new American car in the last 15 years that wasn't at Supplier price or lower and I'm not going to start now. I'll just wait until stock builds up, and it will, then find a dealer willing to move inventory. I'm in no rush.
Mark, does supplier pricing reduce the profit of a dealership, or does it work like a rebate where GM eats the discount? I thought supplier pricing worked like rebates, but what you wrote above is leading me to think the dealership may have to eat the discount. Can you please clarify this for me since you have a lot of experience doing this before? Have you done supplier discounts specifically with GM before? Do all manufacturers operate the same way with respect to who eats the supplier discounts, or is GM different from, let's say, Ford?
The discount is not available to the general population, you need to quality for it and get an authorization number to take to the dealer AND the dealer needs to be participating in the program. The Open House promotion GM is running this month is separate and has different model restrictions and compensates the dealers differently (I think).So is the discount available or no? It's showing about 5k off MSRP on a z51 1LT... Makes no sense... But it would be nice if there is a supplier price discount. ��
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I do qualify that's why I'm asking..The discount is not available to the general population, you need to quality for it and get an authorization number to take to the dealer AND the dealer needs to be participating in the program. The Open House promotion GM is running this month is separate and has different model restrictions and compensates the dealers differently (I think).
Here's a link to the program rules: https://www.gmsupplierdiscount.com/GMVPP2/agency/pdf/rules/GM-Rules-VPP.pdf
I've just been reporting what I see on GM's website and have seen reported on other forums. You would need to contact your dealer to confirm. I haven't contacted a dealer yet because I'm still a month or 2 away from purchasing / ordering but I"m pretty familiar with the program since I've been using it since 1996.I do qualify that's why I'm asking..
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I've just been reporting what I see on GM's website and have seen reported on other forums. You would need to contact your dealer to confirm. I haven't contacted a dealer yet because I'm still a month or 2 away from purchasing / ordering but I"m pretty familiar with the program since I've been using it since 1996.
John,Here's a screen print of the GM site linked in the first post on this thread. Confused, for it says, NO StingRays eligible!
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The Workbench has always been including supplier and employee pricing and you are right, it was meaningless because the car was excluded. At the same time, when you went into the build site you could price out the Stingray but where the Supplier Price is on my screen shot it said "Not Eligible for Discounts". Yesterday afternoon that changed and the supplier price began showing up in the GM employee build site. Perhaps it's a coding error and it shouldn't show up, maybe since GMS was enabled it flowed into the Supplier side by mistake, no one outside of the dealers and GM know for sure.Perhaps "Supplier Pricing Active" means you can obtain a price quote. However, the website says the Stingray is not eligible at this time, so you can't place an order or buy from stock. I knew back in October when I got my first OrderWORKBENCH what the supplier price for my order would be. That info was worth nothing, as the car wasn't, and still isn't eligible to be sold with Supplier Pricing.
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