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Best to purchase out-of-state and avoid the CA dealers who heavily inflate MSRP. What better protest than to buy anywhere except CA. I would rather pay a bit extra than give those dealers any business. Even after paying cross-country shipping the cost is less.
Burning Brakes
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Yep. When I was in a local dealership a few weeks before actually ordering mine from Kerbeck, I seen a 3lt Laguna blue automatic for 83k. I am sure some sucker bought it. Even with my transport costs the car I ordered 2LT was less than 60k.
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Boardwalk is only a short drive to the bay area from Sac. and they don't play those games. Tim can order cars, but because he isn't playing games with markup they have minimal cars in stock that are not sold. I ordered and received mine from him.
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Abel Chevrolet in Rio Vista, just 50 miles south of Sacramento is selling all C7's for MSRP. As a matter of fact, they sold a premier edition coupe for 1k under sticker. They currently have four in stock, some with Z51. That's where I ordered mind.
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That dealer is free to charge what the want, but someone would be an idiot to pay that kind of money for the car.
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Three Way Chevrolet in Bakersfield sells at MSRP all day long. Now allocation might make getting a car real soon somewhat problematic. Still, they're honest folks who treat you with respect. Wouldn't throw all California dealers in the same bag. There are fair dealers all around, you just have to do the research and make a few calls.
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I bought mine from WIN in Southern California at MSRP. They markup the cars in the showroom but order for you at MSRP. Business wise its a good tactic especially in Southern California when rich people walk in the dealership and would rather pay 10k than wait 2months for a car to come in.
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One way plane ticket to get there! No mark-up for me!
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Cheap advertising for them. When it stops drawing people in for a look they drop the price it and sell it quickly. Costs them nothing... And if they get really lucky someone will walk in with a pocket full of cash and buy it at the marked up price. Pure profit.
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The people who are buying these cars with the extremely marked up price are uneducated suckers that don't realize theres other ways to score this car for way less.