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how the fuck do car dealerships still exist
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 11:13 AM Author: Marvelous Citrine Dopamine absolutely unbearable process, id much rather buy used off of some prole scamming me and get everything fixed by a scam mechanic (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861403) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 3:27 PM Author: Translucent odious public bath jap Everyone needs to watch Tomi Mikula on YouTube. He livestreams calls with dealerships & gets his clients insane discounts on new cars. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861894) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 5:46 PM Author: Cream Beady-eyed Karate Legal Warrant Yeah, but that TruCoat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49862265) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 5:49 PM Author: Translucent odious public bath jap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49862270) |
Date: May 3rd, 2026 11:15 AM Author: arrogant fantasy-prone school cafeteria therapy They’re designed to sell financing and bloated insurance products and service contracts. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861409) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 3:28 PM Author: Translucent odious public bath jap Don't forget the dealer add-ons like the stain protector, windows tints, and GPS tracking (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861900) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 11:15 AM Author: Thriller cerise pozpig field Clique System. there's a shadow economy of people with no Engineering awareness where the entire business model is BS. The top guys at the car dealership make $800,000k and golf a lot.
I've never encountered a car salesman who knew a single thing about any Car, whatsoever, period, except maybe what Packages have which Options |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 11:17 AM Author: Carnelian set I'm a good example why, I think. I would love to buy my preferred vehicle used, with cash, and then have a trusted mechanic fix what's wrong with it. But I don't have that much cash on hand.
But I do have a stable job, and excellent credit. So buying a car from a dealership is only a matter of a couple hours haggling. I use my paycheck to make the payments.
Dealerships make nice cars available to poor people who can make payments. |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 2:42 PM Author: abusive crystalline abode You could just as easily order a car from Tesla with financing and have it delivered to your house, never speaking to another person IRL in the entire process. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861805) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 11:18 AM Author: magenta plaza wat in the US IS NOT a scam? what actually operates efficienctly and maeks sense? prob only onlyfans (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861415) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 1:10 PM Author: startling stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861594) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 3:29 PM Author: Translucent odious public bath jap Donations to Israel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861903) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 11:18 AM Author: Shimmering crawly queen of the night hospital whats the alternative (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861416) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 11:19 AM Author: Topaz Lascivious Den like other countries, you buy from the manufacturer and cut out the 5-10% middle man mark up (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861417) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 11:20 AM Author: Shimmering crawly queen of the night hospital you pay the 5-10% markup on m&ms dood there are shipping and storage issues. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861418) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 11:27 AM Author: Topaz Lascivious Den well if we use a middle man to buy $2 items, makes sense to do it for $50k items (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861427) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 11:37 AM Author: Shimmering crawly queen of the night hospital well it does if it has to be transported from michigan to arizona (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861446) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 11:38 AM Author: Topaz Lascivious Den whats weird is that Ford can deliver it to the dealer, but they clearly do not have the capacity to deliver it to an address that is NOT a dealer.
thank god we have dealers who are willing to take in such cars and then charge us a few thousand dollars for them using their address as such |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 12:26 PM Author: Shimmering crawly queen of the night hospital k but mars can deliver m&ms to a distributorship but maybe they dont want to deliver them to your house (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861503) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 1:00 PM Author: jet hyperactive doctorate They deliver cases to my house (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861581) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 1:08 PM Author: 180 theater stage weed whacker IIRC there are fraud laws in a bunch of states that protect the dealers. I'm not sure direct sales are allowed. Maybe Tesla found a way around this I think they own their showrooms IDK
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 11:23 AM Author: Sable Curious Nursing Home most states require them by law. over the decades the dealers made a lot of friends in a lot of state legislatures and the practice is legally protected.
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https://www.justice.gov/atr/economic-effects-state-bans-direct-manufacturer-sales-car-buyers |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 11:24 AM Author: Carnelian set I don't like dealerships, the worst kind of people work at them. But I feel like without them, cars might actually be more overpriced than they are now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861423) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 11:32 AM Author: Thriller cerise pozpig field Only if you're a shrewd buyer and know how to swoop in on some Model that's disproportionately good for how well it's selling. for the common prole buyer they get ripped off imo
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 11:46 AM Author: Topaz Lascivious Den (Challenger buyer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861460) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 12:31 PM Author: swollen indigo feces /thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861510) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 12:55 PM Author: Marvelous Citrine Dopamine thats a non-answer imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861564) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 1:12 PM Author: swollen indigo feces ? it gives a historical answer why they existed in the first place, and the law evolves slowly. obviously you see people like tesla and carvana moving to a dtc model but this is state-by-state and limited by applicable regulation.
not sure what else you're looking for |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 1:22 PM Author: Marvelous Citrine Dopamine I'm looking for emotional rage bait responses and calls to arms (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861616) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 1:29 PM Author: swollen indigo feces lol tyft got it. as autist this goes over my head. i agree that many dealerships are a scam full of retards who do not deserve to have a monopoly via legislation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861623) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 12:58 PM Author: deranged market (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861576) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 1:09 PM Author: Copper son of senegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861593) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 1:11 PM Author: magenta plaza its amazing how on one hand retards will pretend the US is this highly capitalist country but then on the other hand they have endless insane socialist laws like this, basically every furking industry has some protectionist racket where the bribed state/local officials for special rules and laws, even furking faggot hairdressers have shit like this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861597) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 1:14 PM Author: Blue supple love of her life exact same scheme in alcohol. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861606) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 2:26 PM Author: Sable Curious Nursing Home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861761) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 2:42 PM Author: magenta plaza how, havent heard this one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861803) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 2:46 PM Author: Sable Curious Nursing Home https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-tier_system_(alcohol_distribution) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861826) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 2:49 PM Author: Blue supple love of her life distributors are YUGE donors to state politicians. they are a completely unnecessary middleman and make fucking BANK. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861829) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 2:50 PM Author: Sable Curious Nursing Home one funny result of this three-tier set up is that the distributorship are incredibly lucrative but ultimately are created by regulation rather than market need -- and ownership of a distributorship is therefore patronage or historical accident.
Jesse Jackson ran a boycott of Anheuser-Busch and shortly after that AB gave Jackson's son's an incredibly profitable distributorship in Chicago.
==== Yusef Jackson, son of Rev. Jesse Jackson, purchased a Chicago-based Anheuser-Busch distributorship in 1998 to advance minority ownership in the beer industry. The deal, which created one of the city's largest Budweiser distributors, was seen as a pivot in the relationship between the company and the civil rights leader, who had led a 1982 boycott against the brewer due to a lack of minority-owned dealerships. |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 2:54 PM Author: Blue supple love of her life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861846) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 1:29 PM Author: Awkward dashing office degenerate Because people buy cars? Most are fine, just have to get referred to a good salesperson.
Regarding markup/middleman: dealerships only get like 3-5%. Do you think if auto manufacturers operated thousands of dealerships across the country they wouldn’t also have to recoup those costs along with a return on the capital?
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 2:28 PM Author: Marvelous Citrine Dopamine hitler did nothing wrong (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861769) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 2:35 PM Author: Awkward dashing office degenerate Sorry but xo is pretty low IQ when it comes to anything business/finance/stock market related (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861788) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 2:36 PM Author: Marvelous Citrine Dopamine yeah hondas should be 40k
stfu yid |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 3:10 PM Author: Awkward dashing office degenerate (Guy that scored a 153 on the LSAT) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861872) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 2:37 PM Author: Thriller cerise pozpig field they aren't just marking up the car by 5%. that's ridiculous. they have way too much overhead imho. their operating income is probably single-digit % though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861791) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 2:45 PM Author: abusive crystalline abode Dealers make next to nothing on the car. Their nut comes from the scammy financing, extended warranty, and service plan products from the F&I office after you agree on the price. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861819) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 2:59 PM Author: boyish cruise ship telephone They make a decent bit on trade-ins too.
There's a lot of friction in getting rid of your old car via a private party sale |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 3:10 PM Author: Awkward dashing office degenerate Do a little more research brother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861870) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 2:53 PM Author: claret hairraiser dingle berry Sold a car to carvana recently. The process took 10 minutes to fill out their questionnaire, 1 minute to schedule a pick up date, and maybe 10 minutes when they arrived to “inspect” the car.
Carvana seems to be the future. |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 3:10 PM Author: ruddy geriatric mother rehab Carvana is bankrupt iirc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861874) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 5:41 PM Author: Swashbuckling parlor Someone here was telling us to buy CVNA in 2022: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CVNA/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49862248) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 3:01 PM Author: boyish cruise ship telephone These days you can get chink motorcycles on Amazon for cheap
https://www.amazon.com/Lifan-Transmission-Headlights-Digital-Analog-Motorcycle/dp/B0F2GV7JRF/
There's a youtube vid of a guy buying one of these and riding it to the northern reaches of Alaska.
Dunno why anyone would get an Amazon chink bike when a Honda is only like $1k more
https://powersports.honda.com/motorcycle/cruiser/rebel-300/2026/rebel-300-e-clutch |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 3:27 PM Author: Marvelous Citrine Dopamine too many minorities to be driving a motorcycle imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861893) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 3:38 PM Author: boyish cruise ship telephone True, I would never ride one.
It's just a bit crazy that with a couple clicks you can have a motorcycle en route to your front door |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 3:31 PM Author: chartreuse bateful heaven haunted graveyard Most of the scummy bullshit with dealers is with their F&I people that you have to deal with to close on a car. Even if you are paying cash (or have your own financing), you still have to sit with them and hear them try and pitch you on all sorts of bullshit. I think many, many people just get into that room and fold like a deck chair under the "pressure" of having some bro spin some yarn about how vital the extended warranty and tire protection package is. It's horseshit, you just need to power through and move on. But few people ever deal with anything like it in their day-to-day lives.
Dealers as a whole aren't going anywhere. They provide liquidity in the market. Even if you get less cash for your car than in a private sale, you don't have to deal with private sale bullshit when a dealer buys your car. And you can shop your car around to a number of dealers to try and get a better price.
The reality is that there is an insane amount of free information out there, so dealers do whatever they can to squeeze people when closing on a deal. Just tell them to pound sand and it's not a huge deal. |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 3:48 PM Author: Adventurous sienna place of business business firm It's ridiculous that the only tip options on the screen at the end are 20%, 25%, and 30%. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49861972) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 5:42 PM Author: Swashbuckling parlor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49862257) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 6:01 PM Author: Ruby gaped brunch Just use Carfax. Sell your car in less than an hour for cash—and more than the trade in value. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49862308) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 5:24 PM Author: Tan jew Interesting video on this subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_zWFGOSD28 |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 7:59 PM Author: Peach fragrant church building boltzmann Here's how you know they're scams that add zero value.
Accidentally put your phone number into a car site - you will get like 40 calls an hour for the next months from car salesmen.
Now email your local Honda dealers asking them how much it costs for a 3 year lease with 10,000 miles and no money down. They will ignore you or tell you that you need to come into the office.
Theyre incredibly eager to talk to you about anything up and until you ask what the fuck the thing actually costs. |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 8:13 PM Author: Titillating Milk Really Tough Guy I think they sell cars there (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863140&forum_id=2,5#49862588) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 8:15 PM Author: Marvelous Citrine Dopamine they ask me why im an antisemite
i say it should be evident |