It’s a delicate ecosystem: the car salesmen need their cut to spend on drinking and gambling or else the bars and dog tracks will shut down causing more unemployment.
you can order a Ford Mustang Mach E from their website and have it shipped to a dealer and never really do anything at the dealers except get your new car
Because dealers have lobbied to have the law mandate them.
I know “deregulation” is a bit of a dirty word, but some regulations are genuinely bad. In this case, it’s literal textbook rent seeking, in the economics sense.
Also dealerships: $10k mark up on this bad boy!
Why do we even have dealerships?
It’s a delicate ecosystem: the car salesmen need their cut to spend on drinking and gambling or else the bars and dog tracks will shut down causing more unemployment.
Not to mention coke isn’t exactly cheap when it’s not served in a bottle or a glass.
Right? And if the coke dealers go, there go the exotic cat dealers too.
10k markup? amateur!
Try 30K…70K…100K!
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ford+f150+lightning+dealer+markup
I know Lemmy hates Tesla, but not having to deal with a dealership was one of the primary decision points for me.
you can order a Ford Mustang Mach E from their website and have it shipped to a dealer and never really do anything at the dealers except get your new car
Because dealers have lobbied to have the law mandate them.
I know “deregulation” is a bit of a dirty word, but some regulations are genuinely bad. In this case, it’s literal textbook rent seeking, in the economics sense.