Long time lurker, first time deal poster. I sent emails (extremely specific offers) to four dealers in the southeast that had former courtesy vehicle RS AWD models in stock. I located my targets using the Chevy inventory website and selected lease and then sorted price, which brought up almost exclusively courtesy vehicles. Three responded and immediately accepted; I selected the vehicle I liked the best (the only one with Super Cruise) and signed with docusign immediately. Another dealer actually came in $200 lower, but I had already signed. All of these dealers have RS courtesy vehicles in stock still.
I qualified for the following rebates: Retired Courtesy Vehicle, GM Supplier through my spouse, Costoco Gold, and GM credit card. These look to have totaled out to $7,600 in rebates on top of my 11% discount off of MSRP.
Shipped the car so I’ll take more pics when it arrives, but the dealer sent me this:
Congrats! Quick question—when I check the Chevy website, all the one-pay lease offers I see are over $9k. Does yours shows $5k single paymemt on the website?
No. I just used it to identify the dealerships pricing the vehicles most aggressively and it seemed to work. The site is pricing is cluster imo - you’ll see one price listed and then you click through the options and get a $30k One-Pay that I doubt even the dealership wanted to advertise.
Another important note is that one of these dealerships was 100% firm on a much higher price when I called in a week before. I think I was too vague - I just listed the rebates and discount and I wanted and asked them to come back with a price. But suddenly when I email the general manager and CC his internet and sales managers with a low effort deal they can take or ignore, it’s game-on.
About half the dealerships have e-mail links on the “About-Meet our Staff” section of the website. If they don’t list that information, I call in and request emails for the internet/sales manager and general manager and explain I have an offer to make.
Any chance you can share the wording you used in your initial emails? I sent inquiries on a few loaner options yesterday but only got one response today and it was lukewarm. Would be much appreciated!
Paid $5500 for a $53k MSRP Equinox EV RS in FL. If I can get this same deal I’d love to give my Equinox to a family member that needs it. I see one that seems to work. Any advice on locking it down? I chickened out on the Equinox and just paid a broker (even though I’m in the business) $500 to get me my deal. It was just faster and cheaper considering the cost of my time.
