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Rumors and grossly optimistic announcements by a few salesperson have gotten the rumor mill stampede going wildly, over-optimistically and totally incorrectly, that the first C8 orders are going in tomorrow, Thursday, July 24th.
I give credit to all the dealers and salesperson who know better, who have not bought into that false bit of incorrect info, who know much better than that, and thus have not wrongly informed their customers.
Here’s the facts.
* Pricing of options is probably going to be live tomorrow — even though GM’s “reserve your C8” site says in small print at the bottom that the pricing will be announced on August 15th.
* Dealers can type in all the orders this wish tomorrow on the WorkBench Connect system. However, that will mean absolutely nothing as far as your getting your car sooner than anyone whose order is later entered, for orders keystroked tomorrow in that GM software will only get to 1100 status, e.g, not even a fractional assist to getting your car one day earlier than if your dealer were to enter your order weeks and weeks later (once the official consensus allocation process starts).
How come? Experienced Corvette folks know that getting one’s order to status 1100 that is worth no more that your buying a Powerball ticket — and starting to spend your money later in the day based on your insanely optimistic assumption that you will the lottery.
The actual first consensus, in which allocations are granted by GM and then dealers’ pair each of their specific allocation with specific customer orders, is not tomorrow (July 24th) but a long way down the road (think at least six weeks).
Just like the massively incorrect rumors of the C8’s reveal being as far back as last fall, ignore this erroneous info, for what you will see elsewhere is post after posted of wrongly advised individuals saying, “my C8 has been ordered; I know this because I have this screen print of my order right here” (and they will post their 1100 status orders as “proof” of that on FB and elsewhere).
Please ignore tomorrow’s massive bit of incorrect information hyped by a small minority of salespersons and fewer dealers, but which regrettably will cause more needless and incorrect angst.
I give credit to all the dealers and salesperson who know better, who have not bought into that false bit of incorrect info, who know much better than that, and thus have not wrongly informed their customers.
Here’s the facts.
* Pricing of options is probably going to be live tomorrow — even though GM’s “reserve your C8” site says in small print at the bottom that the pricing will be announced on August 15th.
* Dealers can type in all the orders this wish tomorrow on the WorkBench Connect system. However, that will mean absolutely nothing as far as your getting your car sooner than anyone whose order is later entered, for orders keystroked tomorrow in that GM software will only get to 1100 status, e.g, not even a fractional assist to getting your car one day earlier than if your dealer were to enter your order weeks and weeks later (once the official consensus allocation process starts).
How come? Experienced Corvette folks know that getting one’s order to status 1100 that is worth no more that your buying a Powerball ticket — and starting to spend your money later in the day based on your insanely optimistic assumption that you will the lottery.
The actual first consensus, in which allocations are granted by GM and then dealers’ pair each of their specific allocation with specific customer orders, is not tomorrow (July 24th) but a long way down the road (think at least six weeks).
Just like the massively incorrect rumors of the C8’s reveal being as far back as last fall, ignore this erroneous info, for what you will see elsewhere is post after posted of wrongly advised individuals saying, “my C8 has been ordered; I know this because I have this screen print of my order right here” (and they will post their 1100 status orders as “proof” of that on FB and elsewhere).
Please ignore tomorrow’s massive bit of incorrect information hyped by a small minority of salespersons and fewer dealers, but which regrettably will cause more needless and incorrect angst.
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