What is going on with the delivery problems so many are having?

I gave my name to a salesman to call me if any black on black came available, and in about a week, he called and said that a preorder customer did not show and vehicle was now available.
No markup

Looked at car, but did not buy.
He said that car would not be there because so many were coming in taking pictures and calling about it.
Next day went back around noon and did some more negotiations and took delivery of vin # 8xx.

 

Simply amazing...some here won't believe it happened, but congrats. How about some pics and a description?

 

You won the lotto !

 

Congrats!! hope you enjoy it as much as I PLAN on enjoying mine IF I ever get it!! One of the Nashville prisoners!

 

Would greatly appreciate some pics. i'm interested to see some pics of black/black.

 

Congrats.

That's one way to get 'em.

 

Will post pictures as soon as I can figure out how to get them from my phone onto this site

 

It is interesting you just stumbled onto one so 'early' but here's the other side of the story (mine was red though).

Thank heavens for my moment of clarity.... Before the clarity though, this C7 was to be my first new corvette. Heck, my first new GM. So far GM was doing it right. Phenomenal engineering. Superb styling. I was actually going to pull the plug and give into my emotions and buy a fairly costly ($63k is buying a lot of vintage fiberglass these days), depreciating Vette. My other 15 cars took a lifetime to accumulate and include a frame off 57 Chevy, several C2's (including some SWC's), and several C3's; All mint condition. Depreciation is just not something I've dealt with with but the massive torque of the new C7 buried me deep into the Magnesium seat of anticipation with November 2012's deposit and kept me into the decision through May's order and kept the hammer down through delivery last week.

I work hard for my money but respect the value of this machine. I weighed out the difference between 2LT and 3LT and recognized the value of Brembo's, Magnetic Ride Control and NPP. But another excellent value, in my State, is you only pay tax on the difference in the car(s) sold/trade and bought. Thus, I would need to sell my car in relatively close time proximity to the purchase of my C7. Ordering it in May, I was told it would arrive in November. The terrible dark burgundy red interior (the only red) that was in the brochure when I ordered it (and to date still on the website), appeared to clash abruptly with the Torch Red exterior so I ordered black. Thus, concluded the 2LT was best. Glued to this forum, I began to learn GM has solicited (and still is) the wrong red color interior from what will be delivered. I actually love the bright Red interior of what will be delivered and now the 3LT makes sense.

My car arrived way too early for some reason, albeit I (nor can anyone) couldn't tell where it was in the assembly process until it just jumped past everyone with early VIN's and showed up. I thought I could dump something(s) to get the tax credit but I was too busy. I walked into the dealership the day after the car arrived and told them I had to have that C7. Like a rookie, I came out of the gate with my first offer-I'll trade my rotisserie powder costed frame off 57 Chevy AND my Numbers Matching 1971 LS5 (easily six figures) just to drive that C7 off the lot. While the LS5 was obtained through the procurement services of a NCRS judge, the new car manager said no. Perplexed, I invited him out to my place to see them and he said I needed to bring them in to him. I trailer them so couldn't do that with such short notice as they demanded the deal be done right then or 'they would sell it right out from under me'. They actually showed me a text where someone said if I didn't pick up my car they would be down in an hour to buy it.

Not even wanting to look at my trades? Not even wanting to see if a SWC could be haggled into a deal for the C7? In retrospect my initial offer was great for them but no negotiation, no nothing, no willingness to talk about trades. Pretty much buy the C7 or beat it. Who cares about my old stuff...well, I do. Though I was willing to trade away thousands of dollars during the moments I was amidst that amazing car, after nearly a year in a trance, clarity finally came into view. I walked away, with my deposit, so thank you Mr. Hendrick, for giving me my deposit back. By the way, you, my fellow vintage car enthusiast, would have loved them.

 

Stablefull, you're lucky they wouldn't do this for you. In short order you'll realize that would've been a bad deal for you. Yes the C7 seems to be the best Corvette to date, but it wouldn't be long before you began to regret the trade, I would be willing to bet.

I wouldn't take anything personal about the trade situation either. When it comes to trades, if they're not looking at it, right in front of them, it doesn't exist. Not that you would do it, but could you imagine if they did trades like this? Someone comes in and says I have this or that, the dealer makes the deal and it turns out to be a 'project' car or worse. Plus, the older heritage cars like yours are a specialty market, and new car dealers, for the most part don't have time, space or market for them.

 

lt4obsesses, thanks, you're right. I am just amused at myself and how much my love for that C7 could have cost me.

 

I would say you dodged a bullet.

There will be plenty new ones for sale when this first wave craziness wears off. Then there will be rebates and special financing offers like always.

Even though I lucked out, I am certain that I could have saved some more money if I had just waited for a while longer.

But when I saw it sitting on the show room floor with everyone swarming around it, commenting, taking pictures, etc ....................

 

What should have been a unique buying experience, the C7 has turned into a nightmare. Laying down a deposit was easy, deciding on a fully loaded Z51/3LT was on big deal. The lack of true tracking data from Chevrolet was frustrating and the Q/C hold in Nashville made no sense. The apathy of the dealer when the car showed up without any paperwork required getting it registered perplexed me as the dealers are finally making big money on Corvettes! The arrogance of the local chevrolet dealer representative surprised me as he would have know whom to contact to expedite the MSO required. Then to top off the nonsence, dealing with custimer service/customer assistance proved to much for me. Their complete lack of knowledge and inability to fix the problem nor to escalate the problem to their supervisors was enough! Chevrolet, you may be engineering/building a world class sports car, but your customer service is third class! I am way over the excitment of purchasing a C7 - TAKE YOUR CAR and SHOVE IT!

 

Sounds like the OP got very lucky and now has a C7 to enjoy. Congrats.

 

Yea I agree things could go smoother. I am actually glad the dealer snubbed my trade(s) so I can order what I have seen. The dealership has had classics on the showroom floor next to the new stuff so I figured they would want them. They surely could have gotten more than $63k out of them. In review, it is apparent that even the dealerships are emotional and hyped out of reason with the new C7's. Not considering a great fiscal opportunity on a trade is affirmation. The forum is great but nothing can substitute our ability to see in person everything from colors to wheels, coupe or vert... I'm not upset at the dealership. Excellent salesperson as a matter of fact. However, a suggestion to GM is to send a simple wall hanger/floor display to their dealership, with (behind plexi) actual color samples of interior and convertible tops. Might have a button with NPP exhaust to hear sound differences. A sample of the clear top. Samples of the exterior colors. Hey I got it. Put the top, interior and body color samples on slides so they can be aligned by a customer to actually see how they will work together? Maybe not. Seriously though, with a several hundred million dollar car,, the dealership's have virtually nothing except the same internet we do. C'mon, GM I think this success caught even you off guard. Oh yea, and a tracking system that allows customers to build their car (or chose to leave certain options off) with 'on hand inventory' to show buyers when their car will show up. I am dead serious though but think the car's brilliant, proven, engineers and designers need to sit the marketing folks down and school them on how to do their job.

 

Marketing folks are only caught up in present day economics. Their job is to get you to buy the car. Unfortunately GM needs to address the customer experience for their top level Chevy. Perhaps they need to hire some people from the prestige manufacturers. I know a lot of people that won't visit a GM showroom because of past experiences.

 

Well, if I did it right, there should be some pictures here

 

thanks much for the pics. I like the non-spoiler look.

sweet car, enjoy!