guittarmaster
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I’ve ran into what seems like conflicting information around the Tread Lightly rebate program.
There was a dealer advertising a great price on a Gladiator North Edition in KC . It advertised a dealership discount, employee pricing for all, and a Bonus Cash totaling 11303 off msrp.
We emailed over a couple days, I told them I was interested in the jeep, would drive up on the 30th, and that I had the tread lightly affiliate code and wanted to use it, but wanted to know what the out the door final price would be with all those and dealer fees and everything before I did cause It’s a 2 hour drive and I don’t want to risk getting the ‘rona from a gas station on I-70, driving 4hours total, and to find out I don’t qualify for something.
They said they understood, could do 5% below invoice with my tread lightly.... then... quoted me a price that was $6,000 higher than the advertised price?
Several emails went back and forth that eventually ended with a phone call where the dealer said that I could either use Tread Lightly and get 5% below invoice or use the employee pricing for all... which is 5% below invoice, and that I didn’t qualify for “dealer discount” because I wasn’t military, realitors, etc, etc.
A gladiator is Going to be my first time buying a car from a dealership, all my past purchases were from private sellers. Is this normal? I though the tread lightly could be combined with other offers.
Was the dealership jerking me around? Are the three programs in the title independent of eachother? Does the tread lightly combine with only certain types of offers?
There was a dealer advertising a great price on a Gladiator North Edition in KC . It advertised a dealership discount, employee pricing for all, and a Bonus Cash totaling 11303 off msrp.
We emailed over a couple days, I told them I was interested in the jeep, would drive up on the 30th, and that I had the tread lightly affiliate code and wanted to use it, but wanted to know what the out the door final price would be with all those and dealer fees and everything before I did cause It’s a 2 hour drive and I don’t want to risk getting the ‘rona from a gas station on I-70, driving 4hours total, and to find out I don’t qualify for something.
They said they understood, could do 5% below invoice with my tread lightly.... then... quoted me a price that was $6,000 higher than the advertised price?
Several emails went back and forth that eventually ended with a phone call where the dealer said that I could either use Tread Lightly and get 5% below invoice or use the employee pricing for all... which is 5% below invoice, and that I didn’t qualify for “dealer discount” because I wasn’t military, realitors, etc, etc.
A gladiator is Going to be my first time buying a car from a dealership, all my past purchases were from private sellers. Is this normal? I though the tread lightly could be combined with other offers.
Was the dealership jerking me around? Are the three programs in the title independent of eachother? Does the tread lightly combine with only certain types of offers?
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Thanks for the reply. Maybe this will help some people. Doesn’t seems to be much point in the tread lightly affiliate rebate with employee plus pricing. I can’t even seem to be able to use the $500 bonus cash.
