[Bazinga]

Automotive News is a pretty reliable source of information and they're saying that dealerships are discounting the Bolt by thousand dollars because they have to fight for a smaller group of buyers compared to ICE vehicles.

Nationally, the average amount consumers paid below sticker price grew from $1,400 in January, a 3.4 percent discount, to $2,200 in February, a 5.3 percent discount, according to TrueCar.

But those in more rural areas could see a markup because of the limited Bolt supply, so it may be worth the effort to road trip to pick one up from the city and just make a road trip out of the drive back

 

[p7wang]

How times have changed.

 

[EV Fan]

How times have changed.

After watching this video, and reading the root article, this is bad, but not nearly as bad as the video makes it seem. This makes it look like it is GM dealers everywhere doing this, when it is actually a small handful of specialty vehicle handlers in Australia. This allegation is also specific to new Corvette's, which have been in very high demand. While the deceptive way dealers are doing this should be illegal, if the dealer simply told prospective buyers they are charging more because of the high demand for and low supply of this vehicle, I would have little to no problem with it. After all, the idea of a free market requires that the market be able to adjust based on what buyers will pay.

So, in short, a small group of specialty vehicle handling dealers in Australia are ripping customers off by adding a ridiculous delivery charge at the last minute.

 

[p7wang]

After watching this video, and reading the root article, this is bad, but not nearly as bad as the video makes it seem. This makes it look like it is GM dealers everywhere doing this, when it is actually a small handful of specialty vehicle handlers in Australia. This allegation is also specific to new Corvette's, which have been in very high demand. While the deceptive way dealers are doing this should be illegal, if the dealer simply told prospective buyers they are charging more because of the high demand for and low supply of this vehicle, I would have little to no problem with it. After all, the idea of a free market requires that the market be able to adjust based on what buyers will pay.

So, in short, a small group of specialty vehicle handling dealers in Australia are ripping customers off by adding a ridiculous delivery charge at the last minute.

Well, seems it is more than less. BTW, I checked 2 Kia dealers and both had outrageous dealer add-ons and markups. One I actually got a quote for a lease and the sales guy could not explain the huge difference between the kia.com quote and their quote - claiming the difference is the sales tax... I looked at it, not really, there was another $1-2K in 'math error' added to the lease. So in my experience 2 out of 2 Kia dealers...

 

[EV Fan]

Well, seems it is more than less. BTW, I checked 2 Kia dealers and both had outrageous dealer add-ons and markups. One I actually got a quote for a lease and the sales guy could not explain the huge difference between the kia.com quote and their quote - claiming the difference is the sales tax... I looked at it, not really, there was another $1-2K in 'math error' added to the lease. So in my experience 2 out of 2 Kia dealers...

$1-2k, while seemingly excessive, is a far cry from $40,000 claim in the headline of the video.

But yes, most dealers do charge some sort of delivery fee these days. I suspect that these will largely go away once the chip shortage is resolved.