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Originally Posted by eco_modder
Both get transported to the place of purchase, also.
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Good point... when's the last time anyone you know walked into a dealer and said "I'll take that one."?
You don't.. Buying a car is nearly NEVER an impulse purchase... it's usually an overly thought-out decision involving many days of deliberation... which leads me to my next point:
Dealerships are wasteful.
I say this because they pay to have all these cars brought to them... that noone is going to buy on a spur of the moment decision...
Then they pay to have them cleaned, sometimes daily.
They pay to have them moved back and forth, for months on end, to different locations on the same lot, or different lots within the same company structure.
Then someone, one day, comes in, and decides they want this particular model, and would rather get it now than wait 2 weeks to have their "special version" delivered, so they finally buy it, and the dealer has (often has) another one delivered to take it's place.
Frankly, dealers should have 1 or 2 of each model present, with all the available features for each one. Computer imaging can take care of color choices, etc. Cars should become "made to order" rather than "ordered to sell".
Keep in mind that this whole time that these cars are sitting around, they're taking up valuable land, that could be used to do something productive... like plant trees, or grass, or put in a park, or whatever.
Case in point - Troy, Pa. - Until recently, there were 5 dealerships in a town that doesn't cover 2 square miles. Worst part - 2 of them are owned by the same dealer, and two were Chevy. Since then, 3 of them have shut down completely, wasting over $400,000 in inventory each, since they're now "old models" and won't sell for their original price. Ironically, the one that had two lots in the same town still has them both. He pays guys to move cars to one lot, have them cleaned, detailed, etc, then move them back to the other lot, about 2000 feet down the road.