crabman

Also dont forgot that we dont know what kind of contractual obligations the owners/administers are working with. It may be that they cant ditch MP or comment on the issue. Looking back this is not the only MP thread that they let run. Clearly they want forum users to have a chance to read these threads because otherwise they would be closed.

Scissors

Your first sentence is patently false. Jim already commented in this thread and has also commented in the Steering Committee section.

Ego-Trip

Wow Scissors...you got me there. You are correct, Jim did reply to this thread a month and a half ago when all of this was speculation and not FACT. Since then, including when you came back in and graced us with your presence, 267 other posts have been made that have shed a lot of light on this situation. Jims post back then was basically to say that he spoke with Monica and Monica told him that none of this was going on. Since then, I guess its been PROVEN a few dozen times that it is going on. What I want to know is what the forum admins think about this now that it is fact that Maxie Price is selling cars ahead of people that had deposits on new cars months/years ago.

As far as your "Steering Committee" comment, who knows? That section is off limits for non-paying members so how the hell would I know what was said in there. You would think that if there was something important to be said, someone would post it in this section since this is what it pertains to.

Anything else Scissors?

Painrace

I talked with MP and was offered a spot at $$ over MSRP. I chose to go else where and i have one at MSRP! I will not go back to MP again but I don't think they care. When prices slip they will lower their price and still sell cars.

CAPTRKO

To bad for Maxie Price I read this forum.

My next new Vette will be from someone else! I ordred my 2005 in March and was happy overall except my car salesman (Not Monica but an older gentleman) was realy bad at updates etc, once he got my deposit he could really give a $hit.

Now I read this and that pretty much makes the decision to go with another forum dealer in two years when I want my next new Vette. Probably give Kerbeck a shot.

Would be nice if Maxie Price would at least DEFEND themselves? Maybe we do not have the whole story? I doubt it....but you never know?

BOB PROCTER

Would you want the long version, and it is long, or the short version of my dealings with Maxie Price. By the way, and I don't know why, I may have been one of those put in fromt of a lot of people. First contact August 3rd, took delivery October 31st. Every step of the way was documented, that may be the Ace in the hole. :o :bb
Bob

Grumpy

pm sent to savewave concerning this matter...of course, you could have too

dexter

So PR&C isn't the worst section to mod?

rbl

I talked to Monica at MP and got the run around twice ... went elsewhere and have bought 4 new cars since. It does cost allot to mess with people even if you can still sell some cars.

Over a year ago MP pulled the discount BS about the C6, denied it and here we go again. They should be banned from this forum ... my $0.02.

Dicecal

Yes forum administrators are you listening? BAN MAXIE PRICE FROM THE FORUM NOW!!

Kerner

MP is not a member of the BBB

Another Yellow

Are you surprised?

Kerner

Is anyone surprised?

steve burns

Maxie Price = car dealer.

Boomer 2

The really sad part is that Monica does not even bother to respond to any of this. With the large number of sales that she has generated through this forum over the years, you would think she would at least come to her own defense. Her silence would seem to tell you all you need to know about the ethics at MP.

Another Yellow

She can't respond. She needs her job.

Rick Daniels finally got tired of Maxie Price and went with Les Stanford.

rwpatte

She has no defense. She will wait until it blows over and it will be business as usual. Don't forget there are other buyers out there buying Vetts beside Forum buyers or they wouldn't be getting the market adjustment price.

Barely Legal

Let's just completely black-ball MP. Corvette people take care of Corvette people, period. They have a different agenda and we need vote with our $ by not giving it to them. It is evident that the $ completely drives this forum and that dealership. No one will look out for you but you. I've lost a lot of faith in this place over the past 3-4 months.

sly1

When I read all of the posts on this thread, there's no doubt in my mind that GM made a huge mistake by allowing Dealer markups. I'm good friends with a guy who loves high performance cars and just so happens to own an Infiniti Dealership. We were talking about Nissan's supercar that will come to the US as a 2007 model. HP ranges for the car are in the 450 - 500 HP range, and the MSRP is expected to be around $70K.

So my friend says that I'll be the first one on his list for the car, and then I smiled and asked how much over MSRP he'll be charging. He told me that if the car will be distributed under the Infiniti brand, which is ver likely, Infiniti will not allow any of its Dealers to charge a penny over MSRP. Furthermore, he told me that Infiniti will be watching very closely for tactics like selling and rebuying the cars and then selling well over MSRP.

It appears that car companies can control their Dealerships and it also appears to me that Infiniti has the right approach, which is to not risk antagonizing customers just to make a short term windfall.

jschindler

First of all, what your friend said is likely a very fine line. Legally, the mfr cannot tell their dealer how much to re-sell cars for. If they did, it would have to go both ways - how would you like it if they couldn't discount cars either? There are ways to get around this, but a dealer could challenge it and win.

Second, I tried to buy a G35 at a dealer here in Houston a few years ago who practiced some pretty disgusting sales tactics of their own. What they did was very similar to what Landmark/Heard does. They quoted me a price, but when I went to sign the paperwork, they had several other fees. After about 30 minutes of negotiating the fees, and coming up with more B.S., I finally walked out. I went to another Infiniti dealer who was honest with me about the out the door price, and what he could and could not do. I paid $800 more for the car, and was happy to do so for an honest dealer.