Just Announced!!! CHEVY RED TAG SALES EVENT!!!!
11-12-2005, 09:44 AM
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Just Announced!!! CHEVY RED TAG SALES EVENT!!!!
<img src="https://www.chevyhhr.net/news/redtag.gif" align="left" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5">Today Chevy announced the RED TAG Sales event. it will go until Jan 3rd.
All Chevy's will be sold for GM Supplier price. And those prices are nationwide. so no matter what state you are in. Everyone gets to buy the same price, just add tax of course.
now here ae some things to be aware of. not all dealers are participating. also anything special ordered does not count. so if you order one today, it will not count. in fact the sticker prices will be slightly going up in the new year.
what does this mean to you? well if you have a car, nothing, but for those looking to buy one. get it now! and dealer locates will be scarce. because of the winter months, alot of dealerships stop ordering vehicles. they do that because the winter months are slow. and all dealerships pay interest on loans. so i know it might upset people, but you may have to buy whats on the lots. when it comes to the hhr, you may have to get a loaded 2lt, but with the discounts, its like you are getting things like leather and sunroofs for free.
if you have any questions, let me know
All Chevy's will be sold for GM Supplier price. And those prices are nationwide. so no matter what state you are in. Everyone gets to buy the same price, just add tax of course.
now here ae some things to be aware of. not all dealers are participating. also anything special ordered does not count. so if you order one today, it will not count. in fact the sticker prices will be slightly going up in the new year.
what does this mean to you? well if you have a car, nothing, but for those looking to buy one. get it now! and dealer locates will be scarce. because of the winter months, alot of dealerships stop ordering vehicles. they do that because the winter months are slow. and all dealerships pay interest on loans. so i know it might upset people, but you may have to buy whats on the lots. when it comes to the hhr, you may have to get a loaded 2lt, but with the discounts, its like you are getting things like leather and sunroofs for free.
if you have any questions, let me know
11-12-2005, 10:08 AM
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GM TO BEGIN NATIONWIDE INCENTIVE PROGRAM NOVEMBER 14
DETROIT -- General Motors is starting a national incentive program to run through Jan. 3 despite claims that it would hold to its value pricing strategy.
The program, called GM Red Tag Event, starts Monday, Nov. 14, auto dealers say.
Under the program customers can get any 2005 or 2006 Buick, Pontiac, GMC or Chevrolet car or light truck at the supplier price plus $100, several dealers say. The exceptions to the sale are the Pontiac Solstice, Chevrolet Corvette and new Buick Lucerne, they say. The supplier price is the price offered to employees of GM suppliers.
For example, a 2006 Buick LaCrosse has a sticker price of $23,595, says a Buick dealer who asked not to be named. The supplier price is $21,996, he says. Customers also can use any applicable incentives. GM offers a $1,500 rebate on the LaCrosse. Therefore, the vehicle would cost $20,596, the dealer said.
Value pricing?
GM's last big national incentive program, Employee Discount for Everyone, ended Sept. 30.
Mark LaNeve, GM's vice president of vehicle sales, service and marketing, had insisted that GM would stick to a value pricing strategy for 90 days and offer no big national incentive programs. But the automaker reported a 23 percent sales drop in October from the year-ago month, and dealers have been pleading for more incentives.
Dealers asked GM executives about value pricing during a closed-circuit broadcast on Friday, Nov. 11. Executives told them that there are two big selling seasons -- summer and year end. Dealers say GM executives told them GM would be "crazy not to have a promotion" during the year end because "all the competition will."
GM's value pricing strategy consists of lowering sticker prices on the base models of certain vehicles. The program is designed to move the stickers closer to the transaction prices.
GM told dealers that it will start a national advertising campaign on Sunday, Nov.13, using the slogan, "See some red. Save some green."
GM will send red tags to dealers to hang in the vehicles' windows with the revived advertising phrase, "The price you see is the price you pay, not a penny more."
"It's not nearly as good as GM's employee pricing sale," says Ken Fichtner, owner of Fichtner Chevrolet in Laurel, Mont. "It's 2 percent higher for the customer than GM employee pricing was."
Fichtner says GM will give dealers $400 gross profit per vehicle under the promotion.
source: http://www.autonews.com/news.cms?newsId=13809
DETROIT -- General Motors is starting a national incentive program to run through Jan. 3 despite claims that it would hold to its value pricing strategy.
The program, called GM Red Tag Event, starts Monday, Nov. 14, auto dealers say.
Under the program customers can get any 2005 or 2006 Buick, Pontiac, GMC or Chevrolet car or light truck at the supplier price plus $100, several dealers say. The exceptions to the sale are the Pontiac Solstice, Chevrolet Corvette and new Buick Lucerne, they say. The supplier price is the price offered to employees of GM suppliers.
For example, a 2006 Buick LaCrosse has a sticker price of $23,595, says a Buick dealer who asked not to be named. The supplier price is $21,996, he says. Customers also can use any applicable incentives. GM offers a $1,500 rebate on the LaCrosse. Therefore, the vehicle would cost $20,596, the dealer said.
Value pricing?
GM's last big national incentive program, Employee Discount for Everyone, ended Sept. 30.
Mark LaNeve, GM's vice president of vehicle sales, service and marketing, had insisted that GM would stick to a value pricing strategy for 90 days and offer no big national incentive programs. But the automaker reported a 23 percent sales drop in October from the year-ago month, and dealers have been pleading for more incentives.
Dealers asked GM executives about value pricing during a closed-circuit broadcast on Friday, Nov. 11. Executives told them that there are two big selling seasons -- summer and year end. Dealers say GM executives told them GM would be "crazy not to have a promotion" during the year end because "all the competition will."
GM's value pricing strategy consists of lowering sticker prices on the base models of certain vehicles. The program is designed to move the stickers closer to the transaction prices.
GM told dealers that it will start a national advertising campaign on Sunday, Nov.13, using the slogan, "See some red. Save some green."
GM will send red tags to dealers to hang in the vehicles' windows with the revived advertising phrase, "The price you see is the price you pay, not a penny more."
"It's not nearly as good as GM's employee pricing sale," says Ken Fichtner, owner of Fichtner Chevrolet in Laurel, Mont. "It's 2 percent higher for the customer than GM employee pricing was."
Fichtner says GM will give dealers $400 gross profit per vehicle under the promotion.
source: http://www.autonews.com/news.cms?newsId=13809
11-12-2005, 10:08 AM
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Thanks for the info! I was waiting for a winter sale because a few weeks ago the best deal I could work was $1,000 under msrp ( at Serpentinie) so I decided to wait till sales slow and GM really needs to sell.
I will look into this red tag sale.
I will look into this red tag sale.
11-12-2005, 10:11 PM
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you have to think like this, yesterday you buy gas for 2.79 a gallon, then today you see it for 2.15. you cant give the gas back. or you can beat yourself up and drive all over the place trying and waiting for cheaper gas. but then you run out, then what?
moral of the story. if you wait, you could loose out. but sometimes it better to pay alittle more and get what you want, then settle for a so-called "deal" and regret your purchase. i cannot tell you how many people wanted to "think about it." they leave and an hour later its sold. then when they realize no one is cheper than us, they come back and get mad at me because they lost out. hell if you want to buy a cobalt, fine think about it, i have 80 of them on my lot. but when you only have 5 HHR's there is no thinking. sorry.
so markymark, dont look back. unless it in your rearview mirror of your new bad ass HHR!
moral of the story. if you wait, you could loose out. but sometimes it better to pay alittle more and get what you want, then settle for a so-called "deal" and regret your purchase. i cannot tell you how many people wanted to "think about it." they leave and an hour later its sold. then when they realize no one is cheper than us, they come back and get mad at me because they lost out. hell if you want to buy a cobalt, fine think about it, i have 80 of them on my lot. but when you only have 5 HHR's there is no thinking. sorry.
so markymark, dont look back. unless it in your rearview mirror of your new bad ass HHR!
11-13-2005, 07:05 AM
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It never fails. Just when you think you are getting a deal, along comes a better one. It has been worth the extra just to see the looks and turned heads when people see my HHR. I also will not look back. Have you seen my ride with running lites on the side in the picture gallery/