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Question was debated at length here for those who want to see “both sides of this aisle.” Very interesting perspective on both perspectives...

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I’m getting a 2nd year Z06. My buddy owns a Chevy dealership.

I really believe that to get one the first year you will be paying ten to twenty thousand over window sticker. I’m in line but expect to pay a premium.

It’s not actually pre-ordering now. It’s having a relationship with a dealer, the dealer principal if possible. And in lots small towns around the country it happens all the time. You hunt, fish, golf, church or whatever with the owners. It gets you in line. And even though you are friends they are also in business to make as much as they can. I don’t know what I’ll pay for the first one available to him, but it will be what ever the going price is. But I’ll get to spec it. When the ZL1 camaro came out they were bringing over msrp. I just waited and now getting a 2019 to mod for a discount. The first mid engine cars will bring a premium Over msrp I don’t care how equipped or color.

Top forum dealers, such as MacMulkin, Criswell and Kerbeck, never charged a penny over sticker for the entire C7 genration, including the special editions of which an average 500 were made, including the first months of ordering the Stingray, then the Z06, the Grand Sport, and lastly the only 192/month manufactured ZR1’s. Some other dealers similarly did the honorable thing.

Since at least 25,000 ME’s are going to be made for the 2020 model year — and maybe thousands and thousands more than that, so check the facts, the history for those above name dealerships, those dealership’s integrity, their history of their only charging sticker, and that information leads to your being totally wrong.

However, in this case, being wrong will make you very happy.

The ME will sell for sticker at every dealer who treats his/her customers correctly.

Exception, someone late to the party, goes to a non-scrupulous dealer two weeks after the first one’s have arrived, and demand to get theirs immediately, will pay +$10,000 over sticker, maybe even $25,000 over.

Last of prior proper planning by a ME purchaser resulting in them paying over sticker, is their own stupidity.

Anyone who is considering a smaller or a local dealer or even a medium sized dealership for their ME purchase, needs to find out that dealership’s exact charging history for all the examples I cited above, and act smartly by walking away as pricing dictates.