If it were me, I would push back on that price to get them lower. Be nice about it but be firm.
MSRP was $42745.00. .I got 12184.00 and then $4000.00 family discount. So $42745.00 -$ 16184.00= $26561.00. He said $25,900 so I guess I got a few more dollars off somewhereâŚAnyway I think I should be happy. The wife sure is.
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Dude thatâs a killer deal. $26k for an XT5?! You did real good!
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If it were me I would buy a brand-new (unused) model for the $26561. A $660 discount isnât enough (for me) to buy the loaner-car.
Good luck with surgery and congrats on the car
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Iâd really like to know what happens behind the scenes with the Supplier/Employee/Family/College discounts that GM gives.
I canât get an explanation of the math anywhere. Are these programs in the end a flat incentive to the dealer direct from GM? I understand the actual number is based on the particular unit. What I donât understand is where the discount comes from.
Iâd like to think that if I show up with a discount code, the effective invoice and MSRP drops and I negotiate from there. I realize not all incentives stack the the discount, but if I negotiate a $3000 discount, then drop in with âoh I have a student code that gets me $3500 off of MSRPâ, then why wouldnât my price automatically drop to -$6500?
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Original price was $42,745.00. After discount I only paid $25,900. No one can come close to this dealâŚit was 16,000.00 off. Not 600.
So far I have received several dealer quotes on GMC loaners up to ~5% additional off GMS price. I have been asking for an additional 10% off below GMS price for a total discount of 18%.
So there is definitely still meat on the bone after GMS, especially since itâs only the 8th of the month. My personal strategy is to make contact early/mid month, see who is worth dealing with and is straightforward, then push hard to close something at the end of the month.
The $660 difference was the difference between what your deal is and the (GMS price for an unused unit less incentives). A brand new unit would get a GMS discount of around $4k. Add that to the other incentives of $12k and total discount on new unit is $16k.
I didnât say I had GMS until they showed me there offer. I already calculated what I wanted. It was 4K below GMS, they didnât bite, but we agreed to 1k below GMS including incentives.
Did this! Dealer gave a great deal. Called it the dealer discount. I said can you explain the dealer discount. He said it was a discount the dealer gave to everyone so that they had the best rates around.
I then announced that I also had a GM Discount and based on what other dealers were offering off the loan asked him to please apply the 8% discount to the deal and I would come in and sign the paperwork.
He said that GM employee discounts are off MSRP and that he canât negotiate anything below the GM Pricing. He sent a new quote that was $600 less than his original quote that everyone that buys through them pays and said looks like your better off taking the GM discount.
I said I understand that the GM discount is just a percentage off and that I wanted the percentage off what they offer the car for on their website, which was our initial deal and he said no. It donât work that way. I have to go one way or the other but couldnât get both discounts.
So basically using the GM discount only raised the advertised price back up to MSRP and then they discounted from there only saving $600 less than their original advertised price.
I tried negotiating a price with a seperate dealer and git the same exact story. So I guess based on what Iâm being told. You may be better off not using GM employee discounts.
I feel I probably could have done better than $600 off their advertised price without the discount. After they found out about discount. They wouldnât even negotiate after that.
Where GMS really helps is that you get the lowest pricing plus incentives available only to employees. For example, my Silverado had an additional $4000 employee only incentive.
I just ordered a 2020 Sierra Denali 3500. I am getting $800 under invoice price plus $4250 rebate. Is that a good price. Coming to around $10k off a MRSP of $82000.
Alright. Iâm getting mad reading all these comments from people that donât know what theyâre talking about and are trying to toot their own negotiating horn.
I used to work at 2 different dealerships. One a Ford, one a GM. In both instances, the employee AND supplier discounts worked the same way. Whoever qualified for the discount would obtain a number from the manufacturer. GMS, GSU, A-Plan, X-Plan, whatever you wanna call it. Ford dealer employees get D-Plan. It all works the same way. IF the deal is structured using one of these numbers, the price is the price. Thatâs the price. Period.
Think about it. If a dealership uses (redeems) one of these numbers, say, a GM employee number, and the price on the deal is NOT the specific, predetermined GMS price on the invoice, the dealership risks losing their franchise. Yes, they run the risk of no longer being able to sell GM products. No dealership would ever do that in order to close someone, I promise. So yes, the price is the price.
Now, important to note, that means the SALE PRICE of the vehicle is fixed. What is not fixed is the trade in value and finance charge (which, by the way, is where dealerships make all their money these days). They can make whatever number they want for those.
The way employee pricing works is that when the dealership sells you a vehicle, they get paid for whatever the sale price of the vehicle was in full (yes, usually below what they paid for the vehicle from the manufacturer). Whether that is from you paying cash, or leasing through a bank, or financing through a bank. The dealership always gets paid in full at the moment of sale. Then, when they âredeemâ an employee number, they get reimbursed additional money from the manufacturer.
SO, you will never ever ever be able to negotiate below employee pricing, if you are in fact using an employee number. Now, is it possible to forgo the employee discount and negotiate below this price on your own? Yea, sure. But I worked at the aforementioned dealerships a total of about 6 years, and only saw that situation once, specifically with Ford, when they would offer bonuses to the dealership for hitting certain numbers of units. In those cases, with, say, $200,000 bonus on the line, we would literally be almost GIVING cars away in order to hit those numbers. But, donât get excited, as far as I know they stopped that practice circa 2016 or so.
TL;DR
The only way youâre going to negotiate on an employee deal is on the trade in value. If youâre leasing, thatâs the price. The price is the price is the price is the price. The dealership can get in big trouble if they donât follow the rules.
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I will state again that I negotiated an extra 1,000 off while also using GMS and rebates on my Cts -V from a Cadillac dealership in Pittsburgh.
Fine, use the GMS, Supplier, or X plan price. The dealer can still cut me a check for $500 or whatever amount for an additional âoff the booksâ discount that GM or Ford would never know about.
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My son works for Gm and I am currently trying to get his discount code which I think is the GM Family First. I cannot get the code myself because they have to verify that he is an active employee. The GM page does say that the discount can be âcombinedâ with other offers to get even more.
GMS can be combined with âmostâ other offers. But not ALL other offers
When the manufacturer runs a âemployee pricing for everyoneâ monthly special can a person with that manufacturer employee discount authorization number get an additional discount or would it not make sense to use the authorization number?
Interesting question. I would assume itâs worth something, they may have extra CCR for it.