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anecdotal evidence suggests that dealerships are selling cars for more than usual due to the cash for clunkers promotion.

Posted by Mop (face it, the scale says 240 lbs) (aka rburriel) Aug 3 '09, 08:44

They're baking the $4500 from the feds into the price.

Raul

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Willing buyer, willing seller. IOW, so what? The dealers are going to make money and stay in business, keeping folks employed all the way up the food - TWuG Aug 3, 08:59 1
- The dealers were already making money on the price of the new car before the program was initiated. Post initiation, their revenue increases by virtue - Loyola Aug 3, 09:06
Auto sales are such a scam. Are car sales the same in other countries? - JaxSean Aug 3, 08:59 3
- That's pretty much how it works here re new car prices. -- nm - Loyola Aug 3, 09:09
- I'm not really sure they are a scam. We *feel* they are scam if we pay a dollar more than the lowest we feel the car could sell for. - ty97 Aug 3, 09:02 1
  - I guess it's not really a "scam," more just an outdated and crappy way to sell something, imo. - JaxSean Aug 3, 09:12
Ummmm... so? Doesn't really seems any different to me than a factory rebate or incentive. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 3, 08:57 4
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  - Plus the point of the program was more to boost sales/economy than to get "better" cars on the road I think. - Cuzzin Todd Aug 3, 09:01 2
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    - six of one, half dozen of the other, I think. -- nm - znufrii Aug 3, 09:02
Fucking typical. -- nm - Loyola Aug 3, 08:54 1
- This is a sign that the program is working as intended, IMO -- nm - con_carne Aug 3, 09:00
I can't help but think of all the cars going to the junkyards as a result of this. But I guess you gotta break some - HdnAgnda Aug 3, 08:50 3
- I expect to see a boom in the auto recycling business. - howie Aug 3, 09:06 1
  - as long as they don't need a new engine... -- nm - znufrii Aug 3, 09:06
- Ideally, all the cars going to the great junkyard in the sky are worth less than the rebate and are newer than 1984 - TWuG Aug 3, 08:51
Um, this would have happened anyway! -- nm - Congressional Republicans Aug 3, 08:48
Consumers probably aren't haggling as much because they are looking at the price with the $4500 taken off. -- nm - Dano Aug 3, 08:47
not surprising, and not necessarily a bad thing. -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 08:46
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Nooooooo - surely not! -- nm - Epiphany Aug 3, 08:45
Who's surprised? Anyone? -- nm - nubby in NC Aug 3, 08:44 2
- At the rich getting richer? - Spawn Aug 3, 08:50
- And - of course - they're using the "money's running out! BUY NOW!" excuse quite effectively. -- nm - Mop (face it, the scale says 240 lbs) Aug 3, 08:45

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