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10-31-2016, 09:54 AM | #1 |
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One dealers voice
http://www.autonews.com/article/2016...IL07/310319985
Doug is a friend of mine and a fantastic advocate for the small guy. I think he said what most of the small dealers would like to have said. I just wish someone would listen. |
11-01-2016, 08:43 AM | #2 |
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Yep !! The factories have never understood that while people in large metro areas are used to the idea of corporations and businesses constantly building and /or upgrading perfectly good facilities (right now in Arlington TX, the Texas Rangers baseball team owners are going to push through a new city bond pkg. to build a totally new stadium, when they have a beautiful facility ..."The Ballpark in Arlington"...that is less than 20 years old). The current facility is not outdated or insufficient in an category, but The Cowboys just got a billion+ $ new facility called "The Star" paid for by a bond and commercial development deal, so now the Rangers management wants one too. The small rural dealerships deal with an entirely different dynamic. Just as Doug said, "everybody is in everybody's business" and when a dealer spends hundreds of thousands to millions of $$ upgrading his building, the customers look at it and say "Ol Joe is making waaaay too much money off all of us, if he can afford to blow that kind of money for no reason on a perfectly good building!!" They resent it and think he must be overcharging them. They don't understand that the dealer had no choice but to do it or get closed down....that doesn't seem possible to them.
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11-02-2016, 04:14 AM | #3 |
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Dittos as to the facility comments....
As to the Taxpayer Rip-off by franchised sports...it will never stop. The bigger picture, the majority is paying themselves rewards out of the public treasury because THEY CAN.... We taxpayer-aka "achievers"- are the sheep to be sheared at the point of IRS gun. You can see there is frustration to the point of watching the achievers as they set up overseas second residences at faster and faster rate. The same as what John Galt did in ATLAS SHRUGGED. I have a "Who is John Galt" bumper sticker on my truck for 8 years, I have been stopped ONE time and asked who he was. I salute the other time I was buying gas (at COSTCO) and a fella walked over to me and said what a great book, and how reflective of today it is.... |
11-02-2016, 06:02 AM | #4 |
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Agree with all said above. Our rural facility (built to GM's specs) was only 11 years old when GM stole our franchise.
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11-03-2016, 06:56 AM | #6 |
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Well said...Now some need not read the book!
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