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<blockquote data-quote="gone" data-source="post: 243338" data-attributes="member: 5899"><p>I suppose a person paying a dealer $30K over is unlikely to flip the car, given the drastically reduced chance of making a profit. Although you never know: someone from the States could be behind such a purchase and fronting the money so the C8 might still make its way to the US and that will supposedly have the same consequences for this dealer: it will lose a future allocation for each C8 that goes down to the States.</p><p></p><p>Bottom line IMO: the dealer has found a way to justify making a killing on the sale of a C8. I can't imagine there are happy customers who live around that dealer, that are being shut out and unable to make any order...especially if they've got a history of buying other vehicles from that dealer in the past. I suspect the dealer will lose sales in the long run...so it may be "short-term gain for long-term pain". People have long memories.</p><p></p><p>As far as I know, <u>almost ALL</u> other dealers in Alberta are still selling them for MSRP and not paranoid about the resale risk, and like mine they're doing their "due diligence" when it comes to buyers, to weed out improper buyers as best they can. And my dealer (and others too, by the sound of it on these Forums) are moving a buyer up on their list when someone bows out, rather than taking the order for the dealership. Thank goodness for the other dealers who will order in a C8 for a customer at MSRP...at least it gives hope you'll get one in the normal course, even if it is at MSRP. I'll always support those dealers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gone, post: 243338, member: 5899"] I suppose a person paying a dealer $30K over is unlikely to flip the car, given the drastically reduced chance of making a profit. Although you never know: someone from the States could be behind such a purchase and fronting the money so the C8 might still make its way to the US and that will supposedly have the same consequences for this dealer: it will lose a future allocation for each C8 that goes down to the States. Bottom line IMO: the dealer has found a way to justify making a killing on the sale of a C8. I can't imagine there are happy customers who live around that dealer, that are being shut out and unable to make any order...especially if they've got a history of buying other vehicles from that dealer in the past. I suspect the dealer will lose sales in the long run...so it may be "short-term gain for long-term pain". People have long memories. As far as I know, [U]almost ALL[/U] other dealers in Alberta are still selling them for MSRP and not paranoid about the resale risk, and like mine they're doing their "due diligence" when it comes to buyers, to weed out improper buyers as best they can. And my dealer (and others too, by the sound of it on these Forums) are moving a buyer up on their list when someone bows out, rather than taking the order for the dealership. Thank goodness for the other dealers who will order in a C8 for a customer at MSRP...at least it gives hope you'll get one in the normal course, even if it is at MSRP. I'll always support those dealers. [/QUOTE]
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