Just for the record, I’ve been following up with dealers who never replied to my mails from year end. So now 30 days later and these wrangler 4xe still on the lot,
These are all over 500 days old. Not one reply. These guys must not have gotten the memo. The only ones who replied were ones with units around 250 days or so and they all pushed ally deals.
So do these guys just want to keep these cars forever? Some of these cars are creeping upto 600 days? What’s the plan here when lease support ends? Just wholesale it at auction?
I think this forum gives a generally false impression that when an eager customer emails a dealer’s internet lead portal - that that customer is actually going to get in touch with someone who can help get a potentially monster-hack done.
About 80% of the time an internet inbound lead just goes to some business development rep that barely knows anything. Paid hourly to screen inbound leads, their primary objective is to qualify the reasonableness of the lead and assign it to someone up the chain to actually attempt a sale.
Email them looking for a test drive? They’ll respond to people that seem to be serious and aren’t blacklisted in their CRM.
Email them with some mega-discounted offer… and it’s way above their pay grade. If you’re requiring so much of a discount, they’ll just ask you to come in to speak with a sales person or just ghost you.
And yes, if inventory languishes too long, the dealership will eventually kick it over to CPO and sell it as used. Or turf them to auction for a big loss. Or dealer swap their lot anchor for some other goofball trade. Whatever it takes to not sell you a car for super cheap. Some Dealerships do not want the reputation of being the bargain bin and attracting a bunch of lowballers.
Ford dealers doing the same thing with EV inventory. There are still new 2023 Mach E and F150 Lightning inventory sitting on lots.
If they give us good deals, we’ll get them for sure…but it has to be good deals
I’m emailing sales or general managers directly and still getting zilch. I learned the hard way through the years to not waste time below that level. It’s just baffling how these guys are just sitting on these for 500 days plus
With Tavares shown the door, Stellantis should have thrown money and eaten a big loss to help the dealers clear their inventory.
The backlog is a cancer to dealers, mgmt, and shareholders alike.
Not sure if it’s a glitch or just timing and website is not updated with new programs, but on the stellantis website at present they are showing no more 7500 rebate on the wrangler 4xe. If they are dumb enough to pull that credit those things are going to need the rumored 30% msrp cuts within hours or the thousands of those things littering dealer lots 200 plus day are going to become paper weights
Things always get screwy for a day or two with Jeep during the monthly program changeover
I’ve made some inquiries on 4xe to a few dealers. They’re taking $2-3k off msrp and think they’re doing you a favor. This is for 2024s which have been on the lot for months. I don’t know what their end game is but whatever it is, I’m not playing it right now.
I’ve also found these dealers to be about as scummy as they get. They’re all scummy but holy cow these people bring it to a new level.
One place I looked at has a $799 doc fee, $895 dealer processing fee (separate from the doc fee) and a mandatory $1295 tint and some other bullshit add on fee. JFC!! I man obviously those are non starters but I suppose there are suckers out there who pay it?