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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Corvette C7 ordering roulette-playing the game of waiting and constraints

There would be no surprise at all if Hertz Car Rentals got all its ordered filled before the convoluted individual order process manages to satisfy the needs of all the suckers that decided to take their chances and order their new C7 to suit their particular individual preferences.

The Corvette C7 ordering and purchasing pecking order is a very peculiar one, mainly to its screwed up dynamics and absolute lack of rhyme or reason present in purchase ordered fulfillment.

The main screw up: a complete supplier chaos, the exact reason why Z51 option (eLSD specifically) and carbon fiber roof and trim, along with the so called "sports" seats can cause delays between order being placed and car delivered exceeding 5 months now.

To further compound this mess, there is an ongoing preferential order acceptance system, rewarding a few high volume dealers (as long as they order their cars either their own way or per customer wish but without items currently present on constraint list.

The result?  Dealers like Kerbeck, Hendrick and several others have their lots literally cluttered with new Corvettes C7 that nobody wants, already resorting to hefty discounts to push those C7 deadweights off their lots while the suckers who decided to order constrained options have to wait.  The same volume dealers manage to get the customer ordered ca rs first, as well. 

What is the bottom of the pecking order?  Small volume dealers WITHOUT ALLOCATIONS or with a very allocations.  These dealers will accept custom orders but somehow forget to tell the customers there are no allocations given to them at this time.

Eventually, due to very limited number of actual buyers, this mess will sort itself out (no, +General Motors will not solve it, only time will) and what will happen then?  The volume dealers will offer even heftier discounts, causing the suckers waiting too long to take a pretty heavy loss in the resale of their cars even before they drive off the small volume Corvette dealer lot.

Now, here is another whammy for those who are still waiting:  quality wise, the new Corvette is a true POS, it would really suck for a buyer to wait for 6-7 months only to discover the defects in the car they waited for so long are beyond their will to accept it-or is this exactly what GM counts on? 
Disclaimer: this question was purely rhetorical.





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