Posted on 06/12/2009 8:52:10 PM PDT by radar101
"My grandfather paid for Carlisle Chevrolet from his labors. My father paid my grandmother for Carlisle Chevrolet through his efforts. It took me nearly 20 years to pay my parents for Carlisle Chevrolet. It took GM and Chrysler a mere 24 hours to take Carlisle Chevrolet from me."
Not if you're talking about dealers that were selling cars, turning a profit, and still found themselves getting closed. Sure, if people aren't cutting it, give them the axe. That's just business. In a macro sense, you're right, GM and Chrysler aren't selling enough cars overall. Closing some dealers that aren't producing is fine.
Closing dealers that ARE producing means that you can't sell the cars that you DO have. Which makes no sense at all, yet is clearly happening.
There is NO point in trying to elect conservatives and support them and vote if the MSM has control completely as it does now.
We CAN”T get the basic information out,let alone our message! If you can’t get national coverage on 10,000 Blacks rioting in S Philly on May 30th....good luck trying to get someone elected.
We need to somehow deal with the MSM FIRST!
For any dealer selling anything the safest method is to have more than one vendor.
For car dealers have three of four cars they sell besides the big three, just makes good sense, lose one go with the others.
People buy trust and track records as well as brands.This guy obviously has both he should not give up.
Thanks to dumbed down, liberal voters, the obama crime family is now showing how they can take over American car business Chicago gangsta style.
GM closes a lot of dealerships and creates a "price fixing" situationwhere shoppers (you and me) are forced to accept higher prices. No more shopping around. Everywhere you go, you pay the full price.
Towns don't have 3 dealers - they have one. One can be bullied into line. Three can't.
Each dealer makes more cause there's no real "sales" and the car manufacturer can jack up the prices by passing along the "customer rip-off".
It explains why the fewer dealers means more business thing works - price fixing.
GM closes a lot of dealerships and creates a "price fixing" situationwhere shoppers (you and me) are forced to accept higher prices. No more shopping around. Everywhere you go, you pay the full price.
Towns don't have 3 dealers - they have one. One can be bullied into line. Three can't.
Each dealer makes more cause there's no real "sales" and the car manufacturer can jack up the prices by passing along the "customer rip-off".
It explains why the fewer dealers means more business thing works - price fixing.
Very blue collar, off-the-farm, hard working gentlemen.
But the do like their NASCAR and the drag racing in Ennis!
If GM doesn't even honor their own lawyerly contracts with their dealers, then why would they honor a warranty with me?
Can you point to anything with regard to GM and Chrysler that does make sense? These are zombie corporations, plain and simple. The selection process for closing the dealerships is as flawed as anything else that has gone on recently.
I just don't agree with the sudden sympathy and concern for these dealerships here on FR. I had a terrible ownership experience with both GM and Chrysler. The dealerships where uncaring, rude and incompetent, and I often wished that they would burn to the ground. I won't change my tune just because of politics, and I'll never buy a new car from these companies again. I don't need the added disincentive of recent events to form my opinion.
Also, Carlisle Chevrolet does NOT use GM flooring, but pays cash for all inventory on their lot.
A cash customer in the auto business. What is more profitable than that?
The only scenario that makes sense is if the companies were actually losing money with every car they sold.
Sorta sounds like they are losing money by the bucket fulls. I guess it depends upon how you qualify the loses whether by each car sold, car manufactured, or some other measure. The following is from an article about GM’s 2008 year end financials. The first qtr of 09 produced a loss of almost $6 billion as reported in other articles. GM is leaking money like a bucket with multiple holes in it.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/26/news/companies/gm_results/index.htm
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For the full year, GM reported a net loss of $30.9 billion. The automaker has posted net losses of $82 billion over the past four years as its U.S. sales and market share plunged and it closed plants and slashed staff in an unsuccessful effort to stem losses.
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Closing dealerships? Smells like backroom price fixing...
...and you just spelled out why I have this sinking feeling in my gut that some terrible thing is about to occur in this country. Americans are waking up by the droves. Something will be needed as a diversion to keep the masses from storming the fort.
He voted Republican or contributed to the Republican cause. Sad, the demoncRATS like rahmbo would pull sh*t like this. What’s the recourse? I don’t have the foggiest. But you can bet your booties that if the Republicans pulled a travesty like this the RATS would be screaming & yelling their nasty pointy heads. There would be hearing after hearing with the RAT leadership like Reid & PeLIESi tying up the action until the end of the administration.
Then they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.
Then they came for the trade unionists, I did not protest; I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, I did not speak out; I was not a Jew.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
I think that's a point well worth repeating. And I think by the same logic we would also have to apply it to Chrysler as well.
Which is sad, since I work for Chrysler (I am an electronic tech at their world headquarters / engineering center in Auburn Hills, MI) and if it's one thing they always seem to be pushing all the time, it's that good performance deserves to be rewarded.
Can you imagine the outrage that would occur if the video linked at post #35 were shown on the MSM a few nights in a row?
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