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Originally Posted by javadog
You have no idea what you’re talking about. One of the two of us has been a car dealer and I’m going to bet that it wasn’t you.
I know what car dealerships make and your numbers are just pie in the sky fantasy. We made far more money on used cars than we did new cars and we were happy to make a grand. Five grand? Never happened. There wasn’t five grand between suggested retail and our cost, and the days of making big money in the F and I department are essentially long gone.
That’s why you see dealerships raising their service department rates so high. That’s where they make whatever money they make. New car sales has a hard time breaking even after the overhead is factored in.
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i pegged pretty early on that you work(ed) at a car dealership. nobody gets defensive about car stealerships if they don't (didn't) profit from them.
people don't much like being told they are worthless middle men milking consumers of money using anti-capitalist legal methods, but that doesn't mean its not true.
whats the quote "half the human race is middle men, and they hate being cut out of the deal"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFyxmdnv3qE