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Originally Posted by Hylton

I am just surprised that the value in supplying other folks instead of RP buyers seems to be more important. They lost a lot of marketing opportunity here. They could have publicly stated that they had 14,000 committed Chevrolet customers and those loyal customers were going to be supplied first.

Now outsiders will look at this and say "Is that how Chevrolet treats their most loyal customers? - I wonder how they would treat me as a new customer? That's poor business - I'm keeping my Toyota."

Sounds like Em jay may be correct - it's a guaranteed sale so whey supply them when we can get one more sale by building the car for a dealer.

I totally agree and the rest of the story is that even though I won't cancel my Camaro I don't feel very warm towards GM or my dealer right now. In the last 3 years I've spent close to $500K with them and will definitely be looking at other options in the future only because of the way I was treated on this deal. In fact those other options will get priority for the same reason. So all of the wheeling dealing may have made them a few $1000 more but may lose them a few $100,000 later. I'm a business man and that is just not good business.