The order doesn't go in until you've all agreed to ALL of the terms... Sit down and negotiate price as well as contingencies on the order. Right now, lead times are likely in the 2-3 month range, so you would want to understand all of that up front and possibly be able to include a line item that either drops your purchase price by a certain amount or refunds your deposit if the order doesn't arrive by a certain date. All negotiations are FINISHED when you sign the contract (and you never give money without a signed contract).
On the other hand, you can also use Chevy's info as mentioned already to locate possible cars that you could just go buy yourself. With a new car, you can easily do a "fly and drive" sort of deal. When I bought mine last year, I was prepared to fly pretty much anywhere in the country to get the car I wanted because it was optioned very specifically to my liking (including an M6). When I realized that the exact car I wanted literally didn't exist, I removed one item from my list of must-have things and found one at a dealer 140 miles from my house. Drove my truck out there with a trailer and dragged it home. Did the entire deal over the phone and signed the papers when I got there.
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Originally Posted by FarmerFran
And I have also found that Dealers will lie to you and only search within where and who they will trade with. So I do it myself. It is quite easy and I do not have to go out of the house.
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They are not necessarily lying. In order for a dealer to do a swap, BOTH dealers have to have something in inventory they are willing to part with that the other wants and can sell. And there are dealerships that have very good relationships with each other and those that don't. Some dealerships simply don't do trades because they have destroyed the relationships with all of the other dealers that they've traded with in the past by doing things like trading cars with damage that they knew about. There's a lot more that goes on behind the scenes when it comes to trades...
It also has to be profitable for them to do the trade. They aren't going to spend a bunch of money on the runners and such to do all of the work to get the car and then sell it at the bottom end of the price scale.
Just because a dealer says they can't get a specific car doesn't mean it's a lie... There's a LOT more that goes into swaps than most people know.