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" From: Nick B <nick at pelagiris.org>
" 
" 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.

you don't fully comprehend the way a used car salesman thinks.

there's a reason they have the rep they do.

:^/

" 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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