Rebates

[jared43758]

Any 2019 ram HD rebates predictions

 

[RancidLunchmeat]

My prediction is nothing more than you're seeing right now any time soon. So it's $1,000 now. A few months ago it did get up to $2,000, and it might get up to that again by the end of the year, but probably not more than that. From what I can tell they are either still taking orders on 2019's or they just closed them in the past week.

They really haven't had enough time to build up a huge inventory of HD's this year because they didn't build them until what? April? So the 2019 model year is really only half a year, I doubt they need to move the inventory like they wanted to with the 1500s and besides, its the half ton that make up most of their sales and push the media narrative, not the HD's.

 

[jared43758]

Well that sucks. How were they selling 18 HD’s for 15 k off

 

[RancidLunchmeat]

Well that sucks. How were they selling 18 HD’s for 15 k off

Sorry, I think we're talking at cross purposes. I was just talking about FCA incentives, not dealer discounts. The $15k you are referencing are dealer discounts, those are dealer specific and come through their profit margin and will vary dealership by dealership based upon their own particular economics (dealers get kickbacks from FCA based upon how many RAM's they sell, total vehicles they sell, FCA financing, etc..) so volume dealers might be willing to sell at cost or a few hundred on each sale because if they sell 10k vehicles (made up number) in a month, they'll get $100k in kickbacks from FCA.

My $1k number was only the factory incentives available nationally to everybody, not dependent on a particular dealer.

Also, I'll throw this out there - there's always the $100 Tread Lightly membership that gets you an affiliate number. It supposedly gets you 1% under invoice pricing. Now, as I mentioned above, even "invoice pricing" is a bunch of BS because it doesn't take into consideration dealer holdback, FCA dealer incentives for selling volume, or FCA dealer incentives for getting you into a Chrysler Capital loan. So "invoice" is a misnomer even though it might technically be what the dealership paid FCA to buy the vehicle. But the good thing about it is that it holds true across all dealerships and isn't contingent on any of those things, so even low volume dealers have to give you that price even if they normally wouldn't.

For example, I'm looking at Power Wagons, and it's difficult to find one equipped the way I want. But there's one in transit to a non-volume dealer about 4 hours away. MSRP $67,555. Internet Price (after requesting price) $63,990 (including $1k current incentive) = Dealer discount of $2,565. After giving them my Tread Lightly FCA affiliate number the price is now $61,219 (including $1k current incentive) which essentially comes to a dealer discount of $5,336.

Bottom line is that the $100 Tread Lightly membership returned over $2,500 in cost savings, and it's good even at low volume dealerships and you don't have to deal with any other restrictions like using FCA financing. I'd recommend the membership just so you have that price in your pocket. Besides, it's an environmental non-profit that works to preserve open space to balance off-roading and the environment, so it's still a good cause regardless if you ultimately use it or just use it as a starting point in negotiations.

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[jared43758]

This 18’s did have a 2250$ rebate, $750 diesel bonus cash and $1000 off. There was 4K

 

[RancidLunchmeat]

This 18’s did have a 2250$ rebate, $750 diesel bonus cash and $1000 off. There was 4K

What do you mean by and $1000 off? But the 2019's had $2,000 rebate as early as June I think it was. Not sure about the diesel bonuses and some of the conquest bonuses for trading in another truck, or other bonuses for if you were buying the truck for work (as a company not individual), because none of those applied to my particular situation.

 

[jared43758]

 

[jared43758]

What about these target incentives, can someone get them. What proof of ownership would you have to have on like a old new holland baler or case bulldozer. And what about the sams club memebership. Can you combine these with affiliate and Penfed credit union and conquest