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Leading questions and implications, but no answers. You bring up costs without even doing a rough attempt at quantifying them and seem to ignore that dealers pr
by Mithaldu 12y ago
Leading questions and implications, but no answers. You bring up costs without even doing a rough attempt at quantifying them and seem to ignore that dealers provide value too by making it unnecessary for producers to maintain a sales location, sales personnel, local marketing and shield producers from having to deal with some maintenance actions.
As i said, an earnest explanation is warranted.
- lucio 12y agoIf dealers provide "value", why a law is required to "protect" them? "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
- nmcfarl 12y agoMy goal was not to quantify anything - nor provide you with any answers except to the question about why would someone downvote a comment that asks "What so bad about distributing Tesla vehicles through a dealership franchise?" To some people - like myself who have had universally horrific and expensive experiences with dealerships (and in my case the much better, cheaper, and competent experiences with non-dealer mechanics, and used car salesmen of all people.) dealers are bad and their existence should not be propagated. They are bad enough that I could easily downvote the question on that alone (without the political angle which lucio summed up nicely) if I was fast with the downvote button. Explaining that and that alone was my goal - and one it looks like I failed at.
- Mithaldu 12y agoFor context: You probably failed because i've never dealt with car dealers. I live in germany and for the past 32 years have never even had a car in mine or my direct relatives' possession. I don't even have a license.