[Richardlord]

On the Corvette Forum, someone commented that its dealer screwed him on the GM Price Protection. I normally read but don’t participate on that Forum as I figure one is enough. Plus, I like the folks on this Forum (although there are many of the same on both), and I read there can be some real nastiness on the other, so I stayed away from it. This is not to say I have not been barbed on this Forum. I did comment on that Forum for the first time, and the back and forth comments mushroomed. My initial impression is that Forum is a bit harsher and some folks a bit more prickly. This Forum sent me an email saying it had not heard from me for a while (I have been busy driving my C7) and so I’ll share with you the latest in my GM Price Protection sad saga. Feel free to barb away.

So, I finally got from my dealer a check for $2,768 (see attached) to cover the GM Price Protection. As I have a Z51, I should have gotten back $3,200. As some of you may recall from a prior thread, I fussed at my dealer for not adjusting the price up front, but it would not budge from its position. My choices were to do what I could with my dealer, or walk away, which I was not about to do after waiting 8 months for the delivery of my C7. I also would have been worse off financially. The way I left things with my dealer is that it knocked off another $100 off the price of the car (I originally got $1,000 under MSRP), it covered the $200 increase in sales tax (took that off the price), and said it would help me on the labor for mods I was planning. I told my dealer I would see what I got back from it, and then take up any difference with GM. My dealer had just given back $2,768 to another Z51 customer claiming that is what it got back from GM on that transaction.

I realize that is not how the GM Price Protection is intended to work. I have been clearly told this on both Forums. I understand.

That said, it is puzzling why my dealer would go through such price contortions and shenanigans for a net gain of some $300. Some may say I should count myself lucky I got back what I got. I do, but still, I’m not one to differentiate between being screwed a little or screwed a lot - a screwing is still a screwing.

So, I have taken this matter up with GM, and GM in small claims court if need be. Many have said it is not GM’s fault. However, the way I look at it is that this is GM’s Price Protection policy and program, not my dealer’s. If GM is going to have dealers act as its agent with us on Price Protection, GM needs to police its dealers, and assure that dealers correctly carry out its Price Protection policy and program. It’s called accountability, and in our lives and lines of work, the rest of us are held accountable to someone. As Bob Dillon wrote, “We all have to serve somebody.”

Yes, my address is on the attached, but with my Beretta CX4 Storm and PX4 Storm arsenal, and my wife’s Ruger 38 Special revolver, someone is to going to have to pry my C7 and guns from my cold dead hands.

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