roofless
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- Your Mercedes
- w124 e220 estate
i see your service as a market stall approach to selling & this is the part i see as wrong because you simply sell of the shelf cars & don't provide the back up or service all the work is done by the dealer re after sales thou looking at your www bombsite :lol: i see a lack of professionalism shown so it's probably a good thing you don't .........but you do take criticism wellI can get ones with all the extras, but, most of the time this is not what my customers want.
The danger of ordering a fully loaded car is one of cancellation.
I prefer to deal in the 50% of cars that are more or less standard. Gone are the days when Merc has no kit. I can however get whatever colour etc people want. Although everyone is limited to the cars in the system - they cannot be resprayed. I am happy to factory order if you are happy to wait. Funny colours would probably be refused, but that is more the dealer than me.
Occasionally I am selling physical cars, so that precludes any options.
How am I a parasite, if I am supplying happy dealers with orders for happy customers (at a cost cheaper than the dealers would supply, and cheaper than the customers can usually get)? Mercs are my 5th most popular cars, I have done 17 C Class over the past month and a half, plus loads of others.
No offence taken. I would say the parasitic element is the massive cost base that sucks the lifeblood out of dealers like a leech. I have never had a Merc dealer refuse orders from me, and with my best dealers I give so much business I get the first sniff on the stock. I would not call that parasitic, more like I am an extra route to market in times like these when they have been 40% down on sales.