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Originally Posted by vegasmike
I do have a solution for Chevy, the same one that Sony uses and even VW, put the cars online, let people order them and do the finance thing etc etc. The dealers will have no power to bargain up, they will have to either sell at msrp or they wont sell the car. Sony did this and their sales went up at both the factory and the dealer base. Car dealers have gotten away with the crap for years, its time to say NO. Many of you said go to another dealer, I will, but its not Vegas, so dont think that this town is somehow strage and expensive. If you buy potato chips in a casino, you will get stung, but if you go two blocks off the strip, they are the same as wherever you live. Vegas is what vegas is, no excuses. But the dealers, where ever they are need to decide if they want to be in the screw you business or they want to indeed build a business where things make sense. 10K OR anything over the price is total crap. GM sent me an email to back up the call, they are trying, they should of course, but the dealers can suck it. I want to order the car I want, on line and take delivery at a dealer, I will give the guy who checks it out and details it a quick 100 and he will be my best friend at least for a day. Just my thoughts. But we the people get taken for a ride all the time.
If you are coming to vegas, drop me a note, I will make sure you have all the chips you can eat, potato chips that is, at no charge to you. Oh did I mention I make slot machine software, if you are in town go to the Excalibur and in the middle of the casino you will an OCC bike on a pedestal, humbly, I did that, I own the license for that property, the OCC bike etc. So I know that in most cases slots take your money, if you asked me how to win I would tell you but you wont like it.
Later and thanks to all who have chatted this thing up. We do make a difference.
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Great idea -- now all you have to do is travel to all 50 states and get each legislature to change their individual franchise laws! The franchise laws in all 50 states strictly prohibit the manufacturer from selling directly to the customer.
Don't like it? Call your state legislators!!!
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This subject comes up every day on the internet --
IT IS ILLEGAL FOR GM/FORD/CHRYSLER/HONDA/TOYOTA -- or any other manufacturer to tell a dealer what he or she can sell a car for.
There are only TWO instances where we can 'set' a price -
1. MSRP (mfgr. suggested retail price)
2. Special "suggested lease payment" (and there are all kinds of disclosures when that happens...)
That's it.
If the dealer wants to sell a $30,000 Camaro for one penny -- we can do nothing about it. If he wants to sell it for $3 million -- we can do nothing about it.
We want them to sell for MSRP or below -- but we can do NOTHING
Let me repeat that....
NOTHING .....
....about a dealer who wants to mark their vehicles up.
No -- we cannot 'slow down' or 'refuse' shipments. If you attempt that -- and are convicted in a court of law, you can go to jail. (ask Honda)
There are 3,900 Chevrolet dealers in the United States --
JUST SAY NO if someone asks over MSRP.
NOW - that said -- you DO realize that any car that's 'scarce' tends to get marked up -- right? Further, it appears that there is a 'state' on the west coast where dealers tend to mark every car up over MSRP........
......JUST SAY NO!
If you want to be the very first on the block to have the newest toy - most likely you're going to pay for that privilege -- it's called the "Law of Supply and Demand"
When demand outstrips supply -- prices rise.
When supply outstrips demand -- prices fall......
Lecture over!