glacierbrew907

Isn't it time to put in orders now? Salesman telling me "It's too early to order now
I will call you and let you know when it's time."

Maxpowers

Does he have any allocations?

speedlink

Thats the key question.

glacierbrew907

Yes it's Bob Stall in San Diego, they have 178 allocations and I have my deposit in since a few weeks ago.

C8Jake

never too early

glacierbrew907

Does it matter if I put my order in now or as long as it's before September? My options list doesn't have any constraints.

Zymurgy

GM won't be accepting orders until September. What position are you in on their waiting list? 150 allocations isn't huge compared to the big 3 dealers back east that have over 1000 each.

SoCalC7

Pretty sure there is a sticky at the top that describes this whole process.

fasttoys

Doesn't matter my dealer will call me the week they get my allocation. # 2 on the list & should be around mid-September. Any order in now just sits no cars being built yet. Plus they still have to push that order out to GM.

Maybe some of the dealers want it loaded to true up the orders in the system & make it less crazy once the allocation go live. My dealer doesn’t care till it’s live in their system, I did the same with my C7 Z51 and Z06.

RapidC84B

I'm ordering tonight after work... but yes technically it's too early for GM to accept any of the orders past "preliminary order" status.

Gneissday

I also was told the same from my salesman at Bob Stall. I put down my deposit on 7/25 and am not sure where I fall in their allocation order. I'm hoping that everything goes smoothly...

Docbrock

Unless you put in a deposit before the reveal, it may be a couple months before your dealer is ready to take your order.

Be patient.

C8Jake

Rabid Blue - 4 months out

mbaran

I had mine in at noon on 7/19 and I was ~#26. I got the same canned email (probably) as OP. I have also been in direct contact with them, but it seems they'll take the order as soon as you're ready to call them.

Stardompromo

Try to understand no matter who post what on here, what dealership allows whomever to come in and spec their C8. No order go in until September.

marknagy13

Bob Stall has a ton of allocations, the reason is because you are on their 2nd or 3rd allocation list. They told me this when I went to see the c8 a few weeks ago.

CaryBob

Right. If the dealer can't order your car until, say, April then it makes no sense at all to rush down there right now. You'd have plenty of time to settle on options and be a lot less likely to make changes to it.

glacierbrew907

If I was on the 2nd or 3rd allocation list, no order constraints, what delivery timeframe would I be looking at? They seem like they're keeping my number in line on the allocations lists hush hush. I've already asked on email and text msg what number I am, but they dodged the question. They could have me on some 2021 list this whole time, when I could just order somewhere else.

Pzilly

So most info here is correct as I understand, and Gm will not take any orders until mid September, my order was submitted yesterday, and is sitting in 1100 status, which just means my dealer and I have agreed on price and options and it is just sitting in the que waiting for GM to say ok lets go. Now that could sit until mid September, or mid December, that's on GM, being I have the first allocation at the dealership the order acceptance is expected from sept to jan???

Now reasons to possibly get order in early would be price protection, last go around on c7 once demand came in things like Z51 went from like 2500 to 5000 real quick, other reason for me was as just because I am first at dealership.

reasons dealer may not want to take your order, first if your in 2 or 3rd wave then he or she maybe dealing with 50-150 people in front of you and needs to get to them first, second if they spend time with you now and then 2-3 months from now you want to make changes, then a week later you want to make more changes and so on that could get old. now reason dealer should want to get to you as soon as possible would be to turn your refundable deposit into a non refundable deposit. Now reason you should be ok with waiting a bit is your deposit is still refundable.

So if I were you I would speak to my salesman in 10-14 days after he deals with his early reserves and 1st runs, and ask him what spot you are in if you don't already know, and ask for a guesstimate of when to expect to place your order, keep in mind 2020 runs until next sept. I am sure bigger dealers are being slammed with not only legit orders, but a ton of tire kicker question asker who they have to play nice with, so I would be patience, but I would at least know my spot in the dealers allocation line if I were you by mid sept.

NASTYC7

I went with Bob Stall too..... You are most likely on 2nd,3rd or 4th allocation. I'm betting on the latter two if you put your order in a few weeks ago.

I put my deposit down the morning of the 23rd and may be bumped to 1st allocation if a few people back out or constraints keep them off the list, but as it stands I am in the second allocation. I have talked with the salesman and he said they were up over 80 sold by the end of day 2 (7/23) of the car showing.

He is #26 on the top 50 dealers. He most likely will only get 20 first allocations, then 30 for the second and then split the rest of the year.