I visited a Chevy dealer yesterday to survey Malibu line and was not overly
impressed.
Discussed the pricing and they said the employee pricing was firm and not
negotiable.
Struck me as peculiar way to do biz. Maybe all going to Saturn type, one
price.
Need info, please, is the employee price non negotiable. I will visit other
dealers, Buick, shortly and need some guidance for the new pricing scheme to
act intelligently.
I presume dealer still gets the hold back and GM will continue the lower
price schemes because Hyundai is hurting them.
Thank you,
Seamus J. Wilson

Why would you want to buy a GM product especially a Malibu. Check the
internet, problems with GM products is overwhelming. My wife's 1998 Malibu
is a piece of crap. The piston slap makes it sound like a diesel on start
up. Go look at Hyundai, Toyota or Honda. Even car thieves do not want GM or
Ford products..



"sligo" <sligo (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote

I visited a Chevy dealer yesterday to survey Malibu line and was not overly
impressed.
Discussed the pricing and they said the employee pricing was firm and not
negotiable.
Struck me as peculiar way to do biz. Maybe all going to Saturn type, one
price.
Need info, please, is the employee price non negotiable. I will visit other
dealers, Buick, shortly and need some guidance for the new pricing scheme to
act intelligently.
I presume dealer still gets the hold back and GM will continue the lower
price schemes because Hyundai is hurting them.
Thank you,
Seamus J. Wilson

I had previous access to employee price, and at least for GM Canada, the
price was non-negotiable. Prior to the current scheme, I had to obtain an
employee confirmation number, which was supplied back to GM once I chose my
vehicle. GM tells the dealer the price for that unit, and guarantees them a
set margin on the sale, period, end of discussion. You don't like it, walk
away. (amounted to a couple of thousand $ even on a Saturn, where other
negotiation just doesn't happen)

(and despite comments from other, I've been generally happy with my GM
vehicles, as opposed to Chrysler low quality / high replacement cost
components, Toyota hidden warrantees (they sell quality better than they
deliver it in my and JD Power's opinion, but their PR is great!), Mitsubishi
crap engines, etc, etc)


"sligo" <sligo (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote

"sligo" <sligo (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote

The prices with the current employee price incentive are very good. Why
would you expect any further knock off from that?

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:04:37 -0400, "Chris" <an.other (AT) not_here (DOT) ca>
wrote:

longer, depends on if they extend it to us again).

But I have the option of either buying from the dealers inventory, or
doing a custom order from the factory. Buying from the dealers
inventory gets a bigger discount (we still have to obtain a confirmation
number).

James C. Reeves wrote:
Given they won't negotiate on the new car price, then I would turn my
attention to what they are willing to give me for my trade. That's where
one might pickup some extra dollars. When I bought my Malibu in January
they wouldn't budge off the 'advertised price' 'cause it was already
low. So I got double what my POS trade was worth (almost got retail) and
also had the 'processing fees' added on top of my trades price to offset
that as well.

JP

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