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Originally Posted by TylerH860
Ridiculous, but you feel good when they can give you $8000-10,000 off in dealer incentives and discounts. If they were all priced the same at the get go and HAD to stay there, alot less headaches for dealers.
The Toyota brand Scion is this way, and works well.
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I was at a local gun dealer trying to get a trade in on a Sako 75 rifle, IIRC. He said he didn't want to buy it or trade. Suggested I take it to Gander Mountain. Why? Because it was chambered in 300 Remington Ultra Mag. Gander Mountain could ship it to another store where they would sell it whereas his customer base would not buy it and it sits. So, while you say that fixed pricing would have less headaches for the dealer, I say it might hurt everyone. How? Well the dealer would not be able to move items that were not selling on his lot since he has nothing to bargain with. As a buyer, I would want to find a dealer that has a desperation to sell because a bunch of that product is sitting on his lot. So how does it benefit anyone?
Didn't Saturn do that too? I think they are out of business now. I shopped them once and while it was less work, since I could go anywhere and get the same price, there was no wiggle room. I ended up buying a Pontiac Firebird after shopping many locations. Most noteworthy was that 2 salesmen from the SAME COMPANY BUT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS had the SAME deal whereas one offered me substantially more for my trade in. Why? His numbers were lower and wanted the sale. The other didn't