[Turbowned]

Originally Posted by rcm47

I wish we could just get rid of the middle man and have the car delivered straight to our door directly ordered from factory. I mean I don't see why not, we know what we want. I don't need some guy that knows less about the car to tell stuff I know and then charge me extra for his services.

I just wish everyone would pay MSRP and we didn't have to haggle up and down on price. Yet we all still play the game... It's the biggest thing I hate about selling cars. Everyone wants to steal the thing from us. We get a 6% markup on our cars. 6%. Think about it. In my state, that's less than what the state makes off the car in sales tax! Is it so unreasonable for a retailer to ask to make 6% off the sale of a product? I'm lucky to get $200 commission off the sale of a car, and I don't have salary to back it up. If you knew how much work I have to put in to make that money, you might feel a little pity! This ain't used car sales. We don't buy the cars for $20,000 and sell them for $30,000.

Look at RedBull. How much do you think RedBull cans cost to produce and sell? Ever looked at the unit price of a 9.4oz can of RedBull? Shit costs THIRTY DOLLARS A GALLON. How much do you think RedBull and its retailers are making off of that crap? And you wonder why they can afford to have TWO Formula 1 teams and sponsor everything under the sun. How about clothing? People pay STUPID money for clothing. I mean seriously, why do I pay $20 for a t-shirt? It can't cost more than a dollar to make. Nobody haggles with those guys; why not?? The point I'm trying to make is that every item gets sold through a retailer at a certain percentage of profit. Dealers are just villified for doing it for some reason. And yeah, some dealers deserve it (They're on the blacklist right now). But to stereotype and group everyone into that lump is no different than saying "all black people are good at basketball" or "all lawyers are scumbags". It just gets me down sometimes how much negativity swirls around this place about it.

OK, done ranting.