campgottagopee
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You get paid yet?
Not one friggin red cent---this has been the biggest cluster I've ever been part of in my 20+ years doing this. I talk with alot of dealers and nobody is getting paid, PERIOD. Gets better. There's a dealer "hot line" you can call for help where after 62 minutes (really) of being on hold someone takes your name, dealership your with and email and tells you someone will call you back---"where just a call center" was the common reply. uke:
This will be a great program once we get paid but right now it's chewing up cash flow at a high rate of speed.
That simply sux and is proof positive the government should stay the hell out of the private sector , Regulate --yes Operate -- no fraken way
Good riddance. Yet another bailout of 09. I'm still waiting for mine...but I'm not holding my breath.
If I assume that you guys will eventually get paid, Camp, would you say that the "Cash For Clunkers" program brought people into the showroom that otherwise would not have been there making purchases? Is it possible for you to estimate how much, if any, of an increase in sales resulted from the program?
By the way-how are your dogs doing?
I was floored when I recently read that you could qualify for this program by only increasing your MPG by 3 MPG. So you could upgrade from a 15 MPG to an 18 MPG vehicle and got into the program. Seems kinda crazy to replace an old clunker with a new clunker. The extension of this program seemed to be rammed through.
Camp... why are they making dealers foot the bill and get a rebate instead of rebating tax payers on their annual income tax? I guess it was thought that people would be more reluctant to sign if the money was on the back end instead of the front end? Buyers would get a slightly lower payment too, I guess. Sucks you guys have to deal with this in the red waiting for the gov to get its act together.
From quick glances at the survey customers have been filling out I'd say 40% of the Clunker deals are from customers who would've purchased used but becasue of the deal went with new, so they were ion the market any ways. The other 60% would be made up of customers replacing second vehicles, parents trading in junkers for kids going off to school and people who bought just because we got them financed. As for increase in sales at minimum 30% is my knee jerk, maybe even more.
The utter frustration here is with the total mismanagement of this program by NHTSA----you will see some dealers go bankrupt because of this program.
Dogs are great---only problem having now is my choc boy is ready to go hunting and we can't.
Relax... Theres a lot of $ to give out...
Lot's of dealers tripled their sales... If they get paid soon... It's going to be awesome...
People gotta give this shti a chance... It's all new... And it seems to be working...
Right, got $750,000.00 I can borrow??? I'll pay you back in 10 days, really.
Give it a chance???? I think we would if it worked even remotely like we were told it would. This is a joke, and not funny ha,ha.
Just tell the congressman to float an interest-free loan to the dealerships so that the customers can get their vehicles. :razz:It's the lead story in my local paper this AM that is vilifying 2 local dealerships (1 Mazda and 1 Chevy) for withholding the vehicles until the dealers receive there $$, and now my "great" attorney general here in CT and my local congressman are attempting to get in the middle.