Link to GM Dealer Tier One Cost Pricing?

[night driver]

It's too long a story as to how we have acquired the card, but RELIC and I have acquired a "courtesy card" that entitles us to purchase effectively ANY GM vehicle at the Tier One Dealer Cost.

Is there ANY source for this info other than walking in to the Dealership and asking?

It is HER understanding that, we decide on a car, we show the card, the dealer has to print off the Tier One Dealer Price and that is what we get to finance or pay.....

Not to say I won't implicitly trust a dealer, but I'd like to have SOME idea as to which vehicles would then fall into our narrow price range....cuts down on the embarrassment, and the disappointments etc...

C

 

[F.Drew]

There are no deals

Never heard of Tier One, but this sounds a lot like the CostCo deal. You sign up via internet for the type of car you want to purchase, they find a dealership in your area, you print up the email and bring it in. The dealership sells the car for their cost plus $500.

I did it, and had to go to a dealership way out of the way, in a not so great neighborhood. The printout looked like a third-generation photocopy, that I was not able to keep. Lots of different prices, and relying on them to tell you which was "their" cost. Also, there are lots of undocumented discounts that dealers receive, that aren't shown on their invoices (ie volume discount if they buy X# of cars, they get money back from GM on the entire purchase, that doesn't show up on their invoices). There are books (and internet sites) that document the dealer angles and sales pitches to some degree. However, they do it every day, you buy a new car only once in awhile - they will be much better at it. Period.

The final price was almost the same as other places, though slightly better and without all the haggling, talking to managers, stories about how their kids won't eat if they lower the price, and other sob sales stories.

I went to two other dealerships, one of which I even had a FOAF "connection" and they were about $500 or $800 more or so. Really annoying and very frustrating process, such that I really don't want to ever buy a new car again. Ever. And definitely not a GM product (had a boatload of problems with my "demo" car).

Side note FWIW: Personally, I would NEVER buy a demo again. I thought the bugs would be worked out, since the dealership drove it for the first 6K miles. However, what I learned later, was that the dealership beats on the car for the first 6K miles, and does not do ANY maintenance or warranty repairs, since the car is not titled, and they would actually have to pay for the work. My dealership lied to me about (a) maintenance (said it had two oil changes, later records show one oil change just before I looked at the car) (b) "minor" accident that the car was involved in (lied - said no accidents) and (c) who drove it - two different stories (a senior sales manager, or owner's son...).

 

[night driver]

The card is a "friends and Family" card....

Effectively it was the Employee's deal....

the discount was noticeable from MSRP, though there was an additinal 100 dollar charge that actual employees don't pay.....and then there were a couple other discounts we qualified for.....

We'll see if the financing can go today....

C

 

[Hamilton Felix]

Good luck. FWIW, way back in the end of 1978, when I bought a new Saab 99 Turbo, the standard guarantee was 12 months, unlimited mileage. For any company car or demonstrator that they sold, the guarantee was 18 months, unlimited miles.

GMAC Trivia:

General Motors Acceptance Corporation was started in 1919. It didn't take them too long to figure out there was real money in financing cars.

 

[night driver]

Financing is going thru the Credit Union at an ugly rate but by this time next year we'll refi,,,,,our credit score should have risen into the reasonable level then..

 

[yellowsprings]

If you receive the GM employee/family discount, take it and run! We had $11,000 taken off the price of our 2003 Avalanche Z-71 last year between the GM discount and rebates. It ended up costing $3000 more than the POS 2000 Jeep Cherokee 4x4 I own, which is the second Jeep as the first was taken back very easily by Chrysler and declared a lemon!

I also have a 2000 Daewoo Nubira which has not had a single problem! Too bad they went bankrupt. My next car will definately be a GM vehicle. DH said it has to be 4 wheel drive since we are in the boonies.

Oh yea! GM has a website for employee members and family members that you can use to check the local inventory, sticker prices and GM discount prices. I picked out the truck on line, printed all the info, took it to the dealer, told him this is what I want and that I expected to pay this price and not a penny more. Should have seen the salesman face! Of course when you go to sign the papers, they still tried to tack on extra crap. I made them take it all off and reprint the paper with the true expenses on it. Then we signed and took a copy with us.

Good luck!

 

[Sozo]

I get the GM/Employee price also. (perk from work b/c we make parts for them)

I bought my wife a new cavalier in 2001 and got $5000 of sticker (cavaliers don't have much of a markup to begin with)
Then at the beginning of the year I bought a 2004 for myself at $6000 off sticker.
Actually it was $5500 off sticker, but I got another $500 for already owning a GM product. (don't forget that $500 is available to ANYONE...they like to skip that info and the salesman gets to pocket it!)

Financed them both for less than 5% so BOTH my car payments are $488/Mo.