How is it that the dealerships are somehow included in so many of the manufacturers state/fed incentives?
I'm all in for a free market capitalistic approach to business. It's their prerogative to charge whatever they can find a buyer to pay.
But it's the manufacturers that are unionized, not the dealerships (I know, they have deals with the manufacturers). If the stealerships can't run their business well enough to survive, that's tough.
Plenty of used car places come and go because of poor biz practices that eventually catch up to them and they lose customers from poor reputation. This is how it should be for all businesses! Just because new car dealerships have a direct link to the manufacturer shouldn't shield them from the consequences of poor business practices. IMO, not even the manufacturers should be shielded.
Warning: Rant alert -
So tired of the Gov bailing out global corps and banks just because they've grown too big to properly function.
"Too big to fail" is BS! They just don't want to change their short-term profitable practices to ones that are more stable long-term, because their stock holders will just replace any exec that doesn't increase their dividends every year. It's pure greed, and it's killing this country (don't Gordon Gekko me). We need to get back to more small businesses getting the majority of consumer's patronage. But the global corps have bought so many politicians that the laws are literally written now to suffocate any small business competitors. It's unamerican! The "American Dream" is dead. Has been since 1971 when fiat started. Ever since then The Have's were able to control the power and money in order to keep the Have-not's down.
All of these problems would be greatly helped, if not completely fixed, by simply fixing the money. Halt the money printing by the Fed, put our economy back on a hard money standard (gold is not the best option, but it's better than nothing. Bitcoin is the best option by far.). Only then will you see all of these money-related issues (they all are) start to improve. Nothing can improve until then. Fiat is on a slow declining death walk to zero. Americans are blind/ignorant to this because most have drank the kool-aid that we're the best and smartest country. What's happening elsewhere all over the world can't happen here. Wake up! It already has.
It's just hidden better and taking longer, but it absolutely is inevitable. Dead Fiat walking!
Anyone mad at dealerships is missing the boat completely.
Dealerships can only charge over MSRP because there are buyers willing to pay that.
It's called free market. And there's nothing wrong with it.
It's so pathetic that our society today can't just accept when they're wrong, or when they don't get what they want. It must be someone else's fault. No it's your fault. Don't complain when you can't afford to pay more for something you want.
It's not the dealership's fault that you don't make more money. It's not their fault that the manufacturers can make a product with high demand and low supply so that those who sell them can offer them at a premium and still sell them.
Stop whining and get to work. Once you put in the work, you get rewarded, and can afford more.
Well that is, unless your raises don't keep up with inflation caused by the Fed printing more money to let the Gov pay their debts.
Oh wait, that's 99.9% of us.
So I guess we should stop complaining here and get to work changing that first.
