whporwil
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Anyone know how to get the true Employee price of a vehicle for GM.
What the dealer has posted on the window and what I see on line makes me think the dealer has marked up this price a little.
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old guy
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ask about invoice price. I buy all my trucks from local dealer at invoice plus $500 or less. check to see which is cheaper, invoice price or employee price. They are still making good money at either with factory incentives. So don't let them kid you. I have even heard of dealer giving invoice plus $50.
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kaydeejay
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I suggest you print what you found on-line, take it to the dealer and ask him to detail the differences.
May be transportation, may be optional equipment, may be "Additional Dealer markup".
Very hard to nail down but I suggest you deserve an answer.
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JFG
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The GM web-site makes it pretty clear on what you pay... shows employee price discount plus any other incentives. See if your dealers price agrees with GM's. I concurr that this still may not be your best price. Try to hit them lower. It may depend on how many trucks he has, etc, but I have seen ads from a Ford dealer stating that on any 250 or 350, take 45% off the MSRP sheet and its yours. A Dodge ad said take half the sticker price and its yours. I don't even want or need a truck but at that price I am now interested.
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I recently purchased a 2008 Ford Econoline Van. Bought it through fleet sales, the sticker said $25,900.00, I paid $15,900.00. Just have to work the sales staff. I also bought a Chevy Cobalt in April, I looked up the employee pricing and it said 13 and change, I only paid 12. This employee pricing thing is just a marketing plan.
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PopBeavers
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old guy wrote:ask about invoice price. I buy all my trucks from local dealer at invoice plus $500 or less. check to see which is cheaper, invoice price or employee price. They are still making good money at either with factory incentives. So don't let them kid you. I have even heard of dealer giving invoice plus $50. Employee price on my Sierra 2500HD was about 3000 less than invoice.
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I just bought a 2008 GMC Sierra crew cab, long bed, gas, 4wd z71 etc. MSRP was 39,6xx. Employee price was 30,086.
I have the invoice page, showing msrp, invoice, and employee price among other things. I don't think that GM intends that the customer gets a copy, but I did.
I tried to get them to go down a little more. This truck was manufactured August a year ago. The battery was so low the electic locks did not work. In a year they racked up a total of 48 miles in test drives. No one wanted this truck. If I didn't buy it who would they sell it to?
Dealer would not budge at all. I bought it because the alternative was to wait for the 2009s. Between Ford, Dodge, Chevy and GMC this is the only 2008 2500HD, crew cab, long bed gasser that is not black and not white in the entire state of California.
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AVid
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The GMS price (employee price) is clearly listed on the invoice. Ask the dealer to show it to you.
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whporwil
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Thanks guys I did go to the gm site and the only price they give you is on a vehicle with no options. I took that and added the full cost of all the option and came very close to what they call employee pricing. Will see what happens on Saturday, the last day of the month.
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reno82
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I buy with the employee price all the time thanks to my in-laws. The fleet dept has a book that shows MSRP, dealer invoice, and employee price. The employee price is generally below what the dealer paid, the dealer gets their money from an account set up for employee purchases. The bad thing about this offer for me is as a member of the GM family, I get the employee price along with any incentive offered the public. So when you guys were getting $5000 off or 0% financing, I was getting all that plus the discount price. We also get employee price on any extras including extended warranty. Whenever they offer this price to the public they eliminate all or most of the other incentives which means it cost GM family memebers more. Oh well, I got my "08" before this incentive so I did fine.
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