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Are you suggesting that direct to consumer sales should be banned across the board? Everything anyone buys should have to go through a middleman?

• PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
  Not at all. I'm just saying that if a manufacturer relied in the past on non-company owned businesses to establish markets, it's not clearly wrong to prevent the manufacturer from undercutting those businesses by opening company owned stores in the same locations. I think that Tesla should be allowed to open a store wherever they want (subject to other rules & regulations), since they have never used dealers.
  • jsight 5y ago
    Why should the laws protect their outdated business model in that scenario? What is this principle called? Too...old to fail?
    • kelnos 5y ago
      It's interesting to me that these are laws and not contract provisions between the dealers and the manufacturers. Then again, way back when, dealers may have been the weaker party in contract negotiations, so the law was intended to protect them. That almost certainly isn't the case today, though, given the proliferation and (local) political power car dealerships tend to have.
    • MomoXenosaga 5y ago
      Horse buggy salesmen were not protected from cars...
  • breakingcups 5y ago
    Do you believe we should still have attendants everywhere to pump gas? That Netflix should still be distributing DVD's? That elevators should still be hand-operated? It doesn't seem right to force an inefficient, outdated situation to continue to exist purely because it benefits a group that would otherwise be outcompeted.