No question it would be tough to turn down an extra 30K of a fools money on a car. But it would be and investment in a client base and you community if you did. Are there any client / dealer relationships that are based on something other than money anymore? How about things like trust, honor, friendship, fiscal responsibility and being a community asset. You reap what you sow. It’s a tough choice for the short term. A business owner must make everyone he deals with feel like they have been treated fairly.(win or lose for the client) In this situation the car dealers have to show their true colors. Let the size of their client base be equal to the number Shelbys they sell for 30k over. I read a study about word of mouth advertising for each positive experience a client has he tells about 3 people. Each with a negative experience they tell 10 people on average. In an auction everyone loses.(# of people times 10 bad word of mouth) Lotto with a donation to charity everyone wins.(# of people times 3 good word of mouth) Do the math. You will win your community with the lotto or lose one with auctions.
If I owned a dealership, and somebody offered me 30k over sticker for a car, I don't think I'd have the willpower to turn that down.
I agree but its one thing to be offered that much over sticker and another to demand it as was Reds experience. And I couldn't agree more with Red's statement about dealership greed and shopping somewhere else.
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2002 Saleen S281E #12 - SOLD
Chicane Intercooler and Pulley, JBA Headers, Magnaflow X, 3.73 gears, a bunch of other stuff
This is a clip about Henry Ford everyone should read. It came from this site. http://www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/ford.html The boss was a genius. He was an eccentric. He was no prince in his social attitudes and his politics. But Henry Ford's mark in history is almost unbelievable. In 1905, when there were 50 start-up companies a year trying to get into the auto business, his backers at the new Ford Motor Co. were insisting that the best way to maximize profits was to build a car for the rich. But Ford was from modest, agrarian Michigan roots. And he thought that the guys who made the cars ought to be able to afford one themselves so that they too could go for a spin on a Sunday afternoon. In typical fashion, instead of listening to his backers, Ford eventually bought them out. And that proved to be only the first smart move in a crusade that would make him the father of 20th century American industry. When the black Model T rolled out in 1908, it was hailed as America's Everyman car — elegant in its simplicity and a dream machine not just for engineers but for marketing men as well. Ford instituted industrial mass production, but what really mattered to him was mass consumption. He figured that if he paid his factory workers a real living wage and produced more cars in less time for less money, everyone would buy them.
Who knows now? My info comes from one sales person to another sales person then to me. Last I heard no.2 man was offered to purchaser the car at 75k. He showed up with a certified check then was turned away. Maybe no.1 guy came back. We will know the truth sooner or later. Look on the floor next time by amd let us know if it is there.
Didn't see it there last night...
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65 GT convertible twilight turquoise 85 GT black/chromavision street legal 9s 92 LX dark blue 04 Mystichrome cobra 06 S281E screaming yellow
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RE: Auction Result....$79,000!!! Can you say STUPID! - 
