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Originally Posted by gac458
I am pretty sure that when the Challenger SRT8 came out last year dealers were asking upwards of 10,000 over invoice. I know this is a fact because my brother sold a couple of them for $50,000 and he would have sold more if they could have gotten hold of them. Same thing for the new body style on the mustang & same things withe Charger SRT8....This is not a manufacturing issue this is prue greed by the dealerships. GM doesn't get 1 cent of the dealer premiums that these guys are trying to charge, it is pure dealer profit. Everyone wants to pile trash on GM for these dealers, they charge these premiums because people choose to pay them for cars that are highly sought after. Consumers are as much to blame as anyone. Every Chevy dealer in the country was given 15,000 reasons, before a single Camaro was built, to ask for premiums by those of us who pre-ordered. What did everyone think would happen??? They guy who started this discussion is driving a Corvette, how many deals do you think where being offered on the Corvette in 2005 - 2006 when the new body style was introduced??? Just don't get carried away with blaming GM for something we all share responsibility in creating. GM just builds them and then we buy them...As always it's the middle man's that sells it that creates the problems.
FLAME AWAY, I can handle it!   |
You dont get what I am saying, some people do know that its not GMs fault that the dealers are greedy. But to the GENERAL PUBLIC, the dealers are the ones that people see when they think of GM(or any other brand). But you are right when you say WE ALL SHARE RESPONSIBILITY, including GM. Maybe GM should start letting customers buy straight from them instead of having to do with the middle men. That would solve alot of problems!(I know, laws prevent it, but laws get broken and changed all the time, mainly by the ones who make and enforce them). Either way, it leaves a bad taste in the consumers mouth and makes them go elsewhere, be it another dealer or another brand, and if enough people get a bad taste in thier mouth then everybody, dealers, GM, suppliers, ect... will suffer. It's common sense, a happy customer is a repeat customer, and bad news travels alot faster.