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> If you buy a car That's a particularly amusing example to pick considering that dealers are the dominant distribution channel from which to acquire a car, at
by javawizard 3y ago
> If you buy a car
That's a particularly amusing example to pick considering that dealers are the dominant distribution channel from which to acquire a car, at least in the U.S.
- throwaway290 3y agoThe grifters are car dealers in this case, increasingly. Mfgs create value. Not unlike how writers/artists created a bunch of value and ClosedAI and similar are grifts built on top of them. except unlike car mfgs authors don't have much pull to stop it
- sleepybrett 3y ago... and there isn't a person in the US that doesn't hate car dealers (including other car dealers).
- PaulHoule 3y agoWe had a Toyota dealer in our town that both customers and former employees speak reverently of. Some of those employees jumped ship to the Honda dealer after the Toyota dealer was bought by the guy who owned all the other car dealerships in town. For a long time the Honda dealer was the only competitor to Maguire, but then Maguire bought the Honda dealer. Those employees don't speak ill of Maguire but they certainly don't speak about in him in glowing terms.
- SkyMarshal 3y agoThat’s how it was done pre-Internet, but now Tesla is one of the most valuable auto manufacturers and it sells directly to end users, no middlemen dealers.
- imchillyb 3y agoToyota-5x Ford, Honda, Chevrolet-4x Jeep, Nissan, Hyundai, Kia, Ram, Subaru-3x These are many more multiples of Tesla’s sales. Teslas sales make up a minuscule portion of the market. Tesla cannot sell directly to users in any of the continental US, they must sell through a website and ship the vehicle. Federal Dealership laws preclude direct to customer sales. Tesla may be valuable but its effects on the market are negligible.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoThe point stands even if the example was bad. The other day I purchased some particle board and had them cut it to size. I do not believe that hardware store is on the same level of grift as the companies being described in this article.
- jasode 3y ago>> If you buy a car >That's a particularly amusing example to pick considering that _dealers_ Fyi... The gp you replied to specifically wrote about manufacturer as the example and not dealers when he wrote: "If you buy a car the _mfr_ is hardly inserting themselves"
- mock-possum 3y agoOhhhhh I thought ‘mfr’ was ‘motherfucker,’ but ‘manufacturer’ makes more sense
- DonHopkins 3y agoYeah, since gumby wrote that, I assumed it was motherfucker, too! Maybe he was referring to Tesla.