Rivian veranlasste die Autohändler in Washington zum Rückzug. Weitere Staaten könnten als nächstes folgen.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/rivian-made-car-dealers-back-down-in-washington-more-states-may-be-next-70499eec?utm_source=FoT&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=trucks-fot-xona-verneponyuber-aechelon
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Dealerships aren’t the ones keeping car sales “competitive” it’s always been that there are multiple vehicle manufacturers. Dealerships just add a middle man profit motive
I fucking despise dealerships! All you want to do is just buy a car from the manufacturer but in order for you to do that you need to deal with these roaches.
Paywalled- do you have a gift link?
Yet for Washington’s dealers, the prospect of putting franchise laws up for a popular vote laid bare a tough reality: given the choice, many car buyers want the freedom to avoid dealerships.
And there it is.
The problem with removing car dealerships is that they account for a large percentage of a lot of places local economy.
Like I used to do media buying and car dealerships and attorneys made up the bulk of media buys in our market.
Which might be a good thing because every 3rd commercial is an ambulance chaser.
I just tried to buy a used ford explorer with “disabling damage to the rear reported” and the dealership would not move on the above MSRP of what they had listed.
They then spammed me for 2 months trying to get me to drive 2 hours to test drive it after I told them I wasn’t interested in paying what they were charging.
It took me review bombing them on every platform to get them to leave me alone.
I can’t stand dealerships. Holy shit what a terrible experience.
Tesla proved that you don’t need some loser dealership sales team to sell you a vehicle. Most useless profession in existence.
Insightful look into car dealerships and the political party that’s behind them:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/rich-republicans-party-car-dealers-2024-desantis.html
Spoiler: It’s not the Democrats.
The car dealership is only a cost for consumers now. It needs to go away. If a manufacturer can sell direct, it forces the dealer to actual provide better sales and service and prove there is value in what they do. It would also prevent this stupid price gouging with artificial markups.
Tesla did this years ago so is there no precedence? Would every company need to go through the same process?
Dealerships are the private healthcare of cars. A parasitic middle man.
Good. Dealerships are a predatory business
I do have to say that I wouldn’t want to buy a car blind without first test driving it. That’s a huge advantage a dealer has.
Parasitic middle men who add nothing
I don’t want this to come off as support for the dealership model. But I don’t understand how the market for maintenance and warranty repairs works for these electric car companies. It may have changed now but at least when I started seeing Tesla’s if you want your Tesla worked on it had to be towed 300 miles, to a service station in a neighboring state.
I support people being allowed to make their own decisions and if they want to take this risk, they should be welcome to. I do think a state government has a pretty compelling reason to ensure their state is full of service stations for the cars people are driving. Otherwise, it’ll be far too easy for a dealer say this problem is covered under warranty, because I legally have to cover it, but I’m going to make it very hard for anyone to get their car fixed.
Dealerships are necessary. Manufacturers are not capable of having cars waiting for you to look at in every city, unless they lease buildings and put cars in them across the country. If they do that, you have dealerships again, just owned by someone else.
What does seem to be changing, and is a good thing, is removing barriers to open dealerships. It should not be a monopoly by NADA. Almost all monopolies are inefficient and take higher profits than the value they provide (which is the real bitch most people have against stealerships)
I hope this change filters down to legacy auto brands and soon. Dealers have been absolutely fleecing consumers with little to no added value for far too long, and I would love to see them go out of business.
“I sat right here and said I didn’t want any TruCoat.”
Let’s see the Rivian stock price go to the moon!
All brands should be allowed by the state. If they’re worried about dealership unions nationwide that is a business decision and they can keep using them, but they should all be legally allowed to do direct.
> General Motors, Ford and Toyota, which lobbied against it, arguing it unfairly advantages startups. …. argued the exception could one day open the door to Chinese EV makers.
Imagine being so uncompetitive that you need legal protection from competition to keep selling your products.
Car dealerships have been found to directly increase inflation. They serve no purpose.