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GM Supplier Pricing

Posted on 4/30/15 at 10:03 pm
Posted by LSU4lyfe
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2003
7808 posts
Posted on 4/30/15 at 10:03 pm
Anyone have experience using it? Should I use it or can I get a better deal without it? I've been talking to several dealers around the state and the first thing they want to know is where I work and almost always mention supplier pricing within the first few minutes of discussing cars. Makes you think it isn't that great of a deal
Posted by Ice Cream Sammich
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2010
10111 posts
Posted on 4/30/15 at 10:06 pm to
Ford has what they call the X Plan. Some people said that they have beat the X Plan pricing, but it is 99% of the time the best deal you will get.

My SIL walked into Robinson Brothers and haggled for hours. BIL showed up and mentioned he had X Plan (we didn't know before). They immediately dropped it by several hundred (cant remember how much) dollars.

I know this is Ford and not GM, but some information.
Posted by 3deadtrolls
lafayette
Member since Jan 2014
5703 posts
Posted on 4/30/15 at 10:09 pm to
My wife just got a Traverse, and I was able to get them to beat the GM Supplier price.
Posted by KosmoCramer
Member since Dec 2007
76519 posts
Posted on 4/30/15 at 10:10 pm to
You might be able to get a few dollars lower, but only if they really want to move a unit.

But it's possible.
Posted by Spankum
Miss-sippi
Member since Jan 2007
56033 posts
Posted on 4/30/15 at 10:11 pm to
I have supplier pricing and find that if you work very, very hard and take a vehicle that may not be your first choice, you can typically save a few hundred dollars by bargaining instead of using the supplier discount...

my last couple of vehicles I just decided that it wasn't worth all of the bullshite to save a couple of hundred bucks and used the supplier pricing. that worked out much better for me...
Posted by LSU4lyfe
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2003
7808 posts
Posted on 4/30/15 at 10:12 pm to
I'm looking at a Tahoe and Im thinking they won't beat supplier pricing but I haven't haggled with them yet
Posted by KosmoCramer
Member since Dec 2007
76519 posts
Posted on 4/30/15 at 10:18 pm to
There is more savings below supplier pricing on higher priced cars.

It's still the same percentage of savings obviously, but a higher dollar amount saved.

It might be worth it.

Find out what the supplier price is then make them go lower
Posted by NewIberiaHaircut
Lafayette
Member since May 2013
11559 posts
Posted on 4/30/15 at 10:35 pm to
I used it and couldn't get them lower before I whipped out the supplier price. It was probably because I was ordering a car from the first production run though. If I had bought something that had been sitting on the lot then I'm sure I could have gotten lower than the supplier price.
Posted by LSUtigerME
Walker, LA
Member since Oct 2012
3796 posts
Posted on 4/30/15 at 10:55 pm to
It can often be beat by some amount, but will take more work and stress with the dealership. Also depends on vehicle, availability, etc.
Posted by BayouBengal51
Forest Hill, Louisiana
Member since Nov 2006
6538 posts
Posted on 4/30/15 at 10:59 pm to
quote:

Anyone have experience using it? Should I use it or can I get a better deal without it? I've been talking to several dealers around the state and the first thing they want to know is where I work and almost always mention supplier pricing within the first few minutes of discussing cars. Makes you think it isn't that great of a deal



I don't know how supplier compares, but if you are looking for a Chevy, try Chevyland in Shreveport. They sell everything for just a little over invoice, which is pretty close to supplier pricing or in some cases better. They showed me the invoice price and what I was paying. I think it came out to just over $700 of what the invoice price was.

I bought my Camaro thru them and they by far had the best prices compared to just about everywhere else that I looked. They are the biggest Chevy dealer in the state and the 10th in the country. My sales guy was awesome and explained to me that they could sell them for that low because GM gives them incentives for selling a certain amount of cars per month.


It was probably the best car buying experience I've ever had. They didn't try to sell me on anything I didn't want, ordered exactly the car I wanted and I still came in under 1500 on the average MSRP for the SS I bought. No one came close to beating their price.

I ordered my car thru their online sales guy, was called when it came in, drove there to pick it up and I was out the door in under 30 minutes. Before I got there they did all the paperwork a couple of weeks before after my credit check was complete. I just showed up, picked who I wanted to finance it thru, gave them my down payment and signed the paperwork and was handed the keys.

My favorite part was the finance guy when he said:

"I'm forced by policy to ask you if you want to purchase these protection plans for your car other than the warranty. However it is all bullshite GM makes us ask, just say no and sign here"
This post was edited on 4/30/15 at 11:01 pm
Posted by KosmoCramer
Member since Dec 2007
76519 posts
Posted on 4/30/15 at 11:24 pm to
If you pay invoice on a volume car, you paid too much.

Just fyi.
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