Any $1500.00 private offers popping up lately?

[raym0016]

I am in the market and may be finally buying by the end of september, maybe october. I was going to try for a private offer but before I waste my time, has anyone seen one pop up lately?

[BGStucki]

I've been trying for a couple months now, pretty regularly. No luck. Though I'm sure some of it has to do with area too. Who knows.

[SouthpawHD]

I got one for Chev about 3 weeks from the cars.com link floating around here. But it expired 08/31, so not sure if there's another round of them or not.

[6D9 Matt]

Im in the same boat. Hoping to purchase in October, so was starting to consider trying to pursue one of these.

[Stevens03]

20% off isn't attractive?

[ember1205]

He asked for a Chevy private offer. 20% is GMC. And it's on certain trucks only, and they aren't always easy to find. I used a private offer to buy my Silverado along with the Price Reduction, $750 Package Savings, and Rebates... Ended up getting about $9500 off of MSRP on a $47 truck that literally was delivered to the dealer on 8/31.

 

I tried to see if I could get a Private Offer from the Cars.com site (which is running severely slow for some reason) and could not. Considering I had two private offers in my hand last month, I was pretty confident I would be able to get it to pop up if it were there. Might not be there at this point.

 

Buying in October is not likely to be optimal for incentives, offers, and SELECTION. If you're intent on buying in October, you might want to go sit down and work out your best deal with a dealer right now and have them order the truck. Tell them the deal is contingent on signing the papers when it's in your best financial interest. So, if Chevy loads up the rebates again, and/or you get a private offer, that would be when you sign the papers and just wait for the truck. Otherwise, you need to accept having to pay a higher price.

[werked]

Gonna try to get one myself today and tomorrow....sure would like to hear that someone else has had luck tho.

 

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[SouthpawHD]

20% off isn't attractive?

Yeah, I ended up not using my $1500 Chev PO because the 20% off for GMC worked way better for me. I was lucky and found the one I was looking for.

[THE SILVERADO]

I tried my a__ off. I had every different browser and device know going regularly for weeks. I finally purchased with out one and in the mail the

next day was one for $2500 off a Tahoe/Suburban.

[1fast ss]

I tried for weeks to get one. No luck. Ended up buying last week without one. Still got a pretty good deal, but the $1500 off would have been really nice.

[lefty421]

Don't waste your time trying to get a private offer to pop up. You don't need them. If they are going to give you $1500 off for walking in with a coupon printed off the internet, they will give you the same $1500 off without the certificate too.

At least that has been my experience.

 

I walked in with a $1500 off private offer certificate that I ended up not being able to use because part of the current monthly rebates were also coded as a private offer. GM will only allow 1 private offer rebate per vehicle sale. So you either get to redeem the coupon for $1500, but doing so negates $1500 worth of cash rebates. Or you take the cash rebate and it negates your certificate. It ends up being a wash and the certificate serves no purpose other than getting you into the dealership.

 

I'm pretty sure all the certificates do is drive traffic through the dealerships door. I don't think they actually save you any additional money that you couldn't have negotiated off anyway.

 

 

I used a private offer to buy my Silverado along with the Price Reduction, $750 Package Savings, and Rebates... Ended up getting about $9500 off of MSRP on a $47 truck that literally was delivered to the dealer on 8/31.

 

 

I also went into the dealership with a $1500 off private offer certificate in my hand, but didn't need/use it.

 

I ended up getting $11,500 off on a truck with an MSRP of $47,175. (price paid was $35,629)

 

So explain to me how the private offer certificate you used save you any REAL money?!?

 

I purchased my truck during a Presidents Day sale. At the time, they were offering a total of $3,900 in cash rebates, which they explained to me was broken down as follows;

 

$1400 Presidents Day Cash

$1000 GM Consumer Cash

$1500 GM Select Private Offer

$3900 total Presidents Day cash rebates.

 

So GM coded part of the Presidents Day rebates (which were available to anybody) as a private offer. Kind of sneaky if you ask me. Being able to use only 1 private offer on the sale. I could either claim the rebate, or I could use my printed certificate, but not both. So in the end the coupon didn't get me anything GM wasn't already offering via a different rebate.

 

My $11.5K in savings broke down as;

 

$47,175 MSRP

-$5009 Employee discount

-$3900 Cash Rebates

-$2637 Dealer Allowance Rebate (additional discount\accessories I negotiated for)

$11,546 total discount.

$35,629 Price

[ember1205]

Don't waste your time trying to get a private offer to pop up. You don't need them. If they are going to give you $1500 off for walking in with a coupon printed off the internet, they will give you the same $1500 off without the certificate too.

At least that has been my experience.

 

I walked in with a $1500 off private offer certificate that I ended up not being able to use because part of the current monthly rebates were also coded as a private offer. GM will only allow 1 private offer rebate per vehicle sale. So you either get to redeem the coupon for $1500, but doing so negates $1500 worth of cash rebates. Or you take the cash rebate and it negates your certificate. It ends up being a wash and the certificate serves no purpose other than getting you into the dealership.

 

I'm pretty sure all the certificates do is drive traffic through the dealerships door. I don't think they actually save you any additional money that you couldn't have negotiated off anyway.

 

 

 

I also went into the dealership with a $1500 off private offer certificate in my hand, but didn't need/use it.

 

I ended up getting $11,500 off on a truck with an MSRP of $47,175. (price paid was $35,629)

 

So explain to me how the private offer certificate you used save you any REAL money?!?

 

I purchased my truck during a Presidents Day sale. At the time, they were offering a total of $3,900 in cash rebates, which they explained to me was broken down as follows;

 

$1400 Presidents Day Cash

$1000 GM Consumer Cash

$1500 GM Select Private Offer

$3900 total Presidents Day cash rebates.

 

So GM coded part of the Presidents Day rebates (which were available to anybody) as a private offer. Kind of sneaky if you ask me. Being able to use only 1 private offer on the sale. I could either claim the rebate, or I could use my printed certificate, but not both. So in the end the coupon didn't get me anything GM wasn't already offering via a different rebate.

 

My $11.5K in savings broke down as;

 

$47,175 MSRP

-$5009 Employee discount

-$3900 Cash Rebates

-$2637 Dealer Allowance Rebate (additional discount\accessories I negotiated for)

$11,546 total discount.

$35,629 Price

 

GM's Private Offers are rebates from GM to the dealers. Right now, they are ONLY available if you have the certificate and have a PIN code to enable them. If I didn't have the offer, there is absolutely NO WAY that I would have been able to add the $1500 cash to my deal.

[ewbldavis]

Check into some of the other deals. They were advertising supplier pricing to the general public.

 

We used our credit union membership to get supplier pricing. Saved me at least $1500.

[ember1205]

Supplier Pricing is nothing glamorous. It's Invoice plus freight costs. That's what I always target as my purchase price anyhow. The deal that I got on my Silverado was $4250 in rebates, $1500 Private Offer, plus Supplier Pricing. No haggle on anything. Add in the $750 All-Star Package savings and I ended up saving a total of $9556 off of MSRP for my truck.

 

Where I pushed back hard on the deal was on the trade value and got what I wanted.

[lefty421]

 

GM's Private Offers are rebates from GM to the dealers. Right now, they are ONLY available if you have the certificate and have a PIN code to enable them. If I didn't have the offer, there is absolutely NO WAY that I would have been able to add the $1500 cash to my deal.

 

Sorry. I'm still not buying it.

 

I'm of the opinion that they can actually fudge numbers WAY more than they want you to believe. By making the vast majority of the car buying public believe they can't do this and that with the price, and that pricing and rebates are fixed, etc... is how they are able to lock in guaranteed (high) profits from each and every vehicle sold. Look around your GM dealership..... does it look like they are short staffed or hurting for profits? I'm guessing the showroom has probably been completely renovated within the last 3-4 years if not more recently.

 

Like I said, I had a private offer certificate with a pin code in my possession and they told me that I couldn't use it, but it didn't matter because they didn't need it.... ie. "Sir, you'll get the $1500 off, but we don't need the certificate."

 

We agreed on a price and they filled out the paper work from the bottom line and worked their way up. I get employee pricing, so the GM Employee Discount Price is fixed, its on the invoice. They then have to account for the savings to get down to the agreed upon bottom line price. On their rebate and incentive roundup sheet, they used all the available incentives and rebates available to them at the time, including a $1500 private offer factory cash rebate and then when they ran out of available incentives and rebates to use to account for the savings, they just lumped the remaining "missing discount' into a mysterious rebate called 'Dealler Allowance'. Which amounted to $2637.93 on my paperwork. Every last penny of saving that they needed to account for was lumped into this rebate and written off. Are you telling me that if that certificate/pin code I had in my possession, that they glanced at for all of 3 seconds, was going to get them another $1500 in GM to Dealer incentives that they wouldn't have been able to get any other way?!? and yet they didn't bother with it?!?

 

The simple existence of this 'Dealer Allowance' rebate on my paperwork proves to me that they can pretty much discount these trucks whatever and however they want, and are allowed to simply fudge the numbers to make it work by creating non-existent rebates out of thin air. Rebates that don't require any certificates, codes, or pins, apparently.