I disagree, I think the people who reserved the Hummer intending to flip it are rare, what has happened is the market is paying ridiculous prices for these vehicles, tempting would be HummerEv owners to flip them. When I made my reservation, I had no though of flipping it at all, I just wanted an EV pickup. But if I can double my money, hell ya, I am going to do it, just as I would do with any car I buy. No car means more than the retail price to me.
As for dealers, here is how I really feel, dealers are like realtors, they put buyers and sellers together and get a commission for doing so. In the case of the Hummer, or Lyriq, dealers don't have to do SH--, just sit back and wait for the orders to come, they don't have to floor inventory, don't have to do marketing, don't have to generate leads, GM is doing all of that for them, they just have to prep and deliver the vehicle, and get a nice commission for doing so. Dealer markups are the same as a realtor raising the commission at the last second, but in most cases they do nothing additional.
There is a YouTube guy called Brian Mello at Marty's Buick GMC, and Chevrolet who bragged he got a Hummer reservation he planned to flip, Thats your flipper... Go attack him for bumping people down the list, but not the guys like me, or
@Dark-Fx who reserved planning to buy to own, but the economic conditions changed and now it is quite lucrative to flip the vehicle. Also for me, I am really not the Hummer Target customer, personally I think older Hummers are crap, and I was only interested because its an EV pickup with cool capabilities. I might even be embarrassed to drive a Hummer on a daily basis, because I do not like to "stick out" and much prefer to blend in to society.
ON GM, hopefully the Hummer teaches them a lesson to put more vehicles in the market faster to slow the gains on the flips, but some vehicles like C8 are just hot, and going to always be flipped. Lyriq and SilveradoEV initially will be similar, but both high production vehicles that will be put on the market in larger numbers. Think GM is rolling into Hummer sales slower then they planned, and trying to be very careful.