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[Nick B]

I have a hard time believing the market will bear a nearly 50% markup.  I'm
not expecting the cost to be identical, a showroom in Reston costs *WAY*
more than a showroom in Empty, TX.  I just find a 5k markup on a 12k item
amazing.
Nick

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>wrote:

> On 04/07/2012 01:58 PM, Nick B wrote:
> > That sounds really shady, though for me a 2012 Ford F150 is showing 23k.
> >   Nick
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Dr Robert Pasken <rpasken at eas.slu.edu
> >wrote:
> >> You mean like a 2011 Ford-150 truck that costs $12k in St. Louis and
> $17k
> >> for identically the same truck in Syracuse
>
>
> There's something new about auto dealers charging as much markup as the
> local market will bear?
>
> This is part of the reason Saturn's fixed-price model was such a huge
> success in the marklet place.  And that in turn is why the other GM
> divisions were so threatened by it that they gagged it, chained its
> ankles together, then eventually chained it to Hummer and threw it off a
> bridge.
>
>
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