What's a "Processing Option"?
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Burning Brakes
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Does that $8300 item actually show up on the REAL window sticker?
I have to wonder why GM lets the dealers get away with advertising something on their websites as a window sticker when it's not really like the actual one.
I have to wonder why GM lets the dealers get away with advertising something on their websites as a window sticker when it's not really like the actual one.
Drifting
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Melting Slicks
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From: Ten Mile TN
Read the post above yours, They aren't "getting away" with anything, this is a Premier Edition and the $8300 shows up on the window sticker, just with more detail than on the website. BTW, this particular section of the website takes its information directly from the GM database and translates the build sheet into this format, it's not the dealer getting adding markup or playing games.
I am sure a Premier vert is not 8K over a loaded vert, not that much extra on the car.
Racer
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St. Jude Donor '08
Our local dealer has a Premiere Vert, number in the 300s, with an MSRP of $80k plus $23k markup. Yep, $103k plus TTL. It will be there a while. It is the LRG with the orange top and Brownstone interior.
Race Director
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From: Ft Lauderdale
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from another vette forum:
If you are looking at the window sticker on a Premier Edition they list a "Processing Option" instead of breaking down all the cost per option so the cost you see are for the 3LT then "Processing Option" which are all the Premier options bundled in one cost. This will be on the window sticker in the standard font. This is not a Market Adjustment. If on any other Corvette other than the Premier Edition then it's a dealer market adjustment and would be noted in other than the factory sticker print.
Last edited by Glen e; Jul 1, 2014 at 09:23 AM.
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Burning Brakes
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In addition to what Glen e has posted, the VIN for Premiere Edition Corvettes has a 4 instead of a 1 for the sequence portion.
Laborsmith
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Last edited by laborsmith; Jul 1, 2014 at 10:30 AM. Reason: correct the VIN PE signifier
Melting Slicks
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From: Ten Mile TN
I stand corrected
Drifting
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From: Nevada
It is an option that requires processing your check in an amount $8,300 higher than a lesser equipped but otherwise comparable vehicle would require, which results in your car receiving a General Motors Premier designation not otherwise available on more mundane versions of that vehicle once the check clears.
Racer
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From: tuttle ok
There is no processing option on the window sticker of our premier edition vert. Everything is spelled out on the sticker including the premier edition Z51option which is $8,300. As far as mark up we bought ours $3,500 under sticker price. I am talking the original window sticker from Chevrolet. No modification from the dealer. 
Burning Brakes
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My memory is the first round of coupe PE units had Processing Option on the window sticker which prompted the very question that started this thread. But a VIN check will provide the definitive answer because the PE editions had their own VIN sequencing.
Laborsmith
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