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hopin to cash

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I have a dealer telling me that the invoice on identical 2014 trucks is $2,000.00 less due to price increase. One truck has an old invoice prior to price increase and the other has new invoice or $2,000.00 more. Is there any truth to this at all?

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Yes there is. I frequently go on the build & price GMC cite. I''ve seen a Sierra Denali for $46+K and a more recent cite for $48+K all within the same day? I ordered my Denali and my excellent sales manager ordered mine days before the increase.

 

Price up $2K and incentives down, makes me disappointed. Got the 6.2 for an added 2K, alum block and heads as does the 5.3. Where's the justification for the increase over the 5.3?

 

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cansled Enthusiast

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Absolutely true. Sometime back in October GM increased the baseline invoice by $1500-$2000. When I purchased my truck I had the choice to two trucks exactly the same style/color/options and one was amost $2000 more than the other. So if you find an older invoice with the options you want...get it....it is like getting an extra $2000 discount.

tenx82 Enthusiast

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Yep. Ran into this when I bought mine in December. I really wanted red or blue, but those were both 'new stock' on my local lots. Going with the 'old stock' silver one saved me about $1800.

Mutau95 Enthusiast

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I did the same found one just after new years fully loaded minus Z71 save nearly 2k. Interesting enough there was one on the lot that had a window sticker at 52k but when the sales lady ran the numbers their computer had it listed for 53800. They refused to adjust the price to what was on the window and that essentially ended the transaction.

steig Enthusiast

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I did the same found one just after new years fully loaded minus Z71 save nearly 2k. Interesting enough there was one on the lot that had a window sticker at 52k but when the sales lady ran the numbers their computer had it listed for 53800. They refused to adjust the price to what was on the window and that essentially ended the transaction.

Thats not right, my dealer gave me the window sticker price and the rebates. That was back in October though.

sh00ter Enthusiast

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The price increase happened on December 2nd. I ran into this last week when I picked up my Denali. The dealer ordered it on Nov. 13th & e-mailed the order & pricing info to me. When the truck showed up last week, he didn't look at the invoice until I got there to pick it up. He called GMC & had them on the speaker so I could hear the conversation. The gal told him that the price increase was on 12/2 & they didn't pick up the order to be built until 12/5. She suggested he call his GMC rep & he did. The guy called back in a few minutes & told him they would honor the old price as long as he sold it to the person whose name was on the order. I suspected something was going on when I saw the truck show up on the dealer's website with a higher retail price...$56,730 instead of what was on the original order.

 

I just looked at the window sticker & it shows $51,465 before options. The build date was 1/13 or 1/14.

MIZ14sierra Enthusiast

MIZ14sierra

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it's a flat $1500 off base MSRP, and $100 (995 vs 1095) in delivery charge, so $1600 total savings for Pre Mid-October builds. I looked VERY hard to find this combo with what i wanted and it was VERY difficult for the Sierras. Hard to find one that had the $1000 discount for SLT value package, so it usually came out a wash once i found what i wanted.

 

GM first caught my eye in the later summer with the advert. that the 2014's would be the same price as 2013's. That lasted about 2 months and they ditched it in favor of this whole "Raise the price so people feel special and rich spending more on a truck". I think the rebates will come hard in the next quarter or two since ford can afford the rebate their lame duck 14' model in anticipation of the 15's and supposedly GM truck sales are struggling.

TxTruckMan Senior Enthusiast

TxTruckMan

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Yep, the first increase of $1500 was at the end of October. I was initially looking to buy right before the increase, but couldn't find exactly what I wanted. I then decided to order a Denali. My sticker was $53,730 before rebates - same price from Denali launch until I took delivery in December. Right after I took delivery on 12/10, there was another increase and the MSRP for the same build was $53,730 AFTER $1500 rebate. So there has been at least $3k mark up since October.

MIZ14sierra Enthusiast

MIZ14sierra

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Yep, the first increase of $1500 was at the end of October. I was initially looking to buy right before the increase, but couldn't find exactly what I wanted. I then decided to order a Denali. My sticker was $53,730 before rebates - same price from Denali launch until I took delivery in December. Right after I took delivery on 12/10, there was another increase and the MSRP for the same build was $53,730 AFTER $1500 rebate. So there has been at least $3k mark up since October.

Wow, thought this was just confusion on the dates/timing but this really clears up the issue. They raised the base MSRP almost 10% since rollout?! thats pretty gutsy. Wonder it this just applies to denali, or if there are any SLT/SLE owners out there that saw a double price jump over 3 months?

pm26 Senior Enthusiast

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Price increases for the same year vehicle are not that uncommon throughout automotive industry, but in this case the increases are rather steep. Also, munufacturers typically increase prices when sales are booming and that specific model vehicle is in great demand. I am not sure if this is the case here.

mike94silverado Senior Enthusiast

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This is getting so rediculous then with the low rates and long terms they make it "seem" cheap..... "Its the same payment you had on your last truck sir" Yeah but the last truck was a 5 year note not 7.......

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