Posted 2010-07-23 8:31 AM (#122717 - in reply to #122571) Subject: RE: Trading In
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At the risk of being drug through the mud, I'm going to throw a couple of thoughts in here- First- When you are shopping for a trailer, the person selling it, really wants money. That's why they put a price of $40,000 on it, and not "$25,000 and a nice 3H GN". Same with cars, tractors, and most anything else. Try to trade your old TV in to Wal-Mart. So if you want to give them a trailer instead of money, they have to go out and work to get their money out of the trailer. Probably now twice the amount of work because they have to sell 2 trailers to get the original $40,000. That comes with a price. That's why your 3H GN you think is worth 18,000 may be only worth 15,000 to a dealer. It might take her 6 months or more to get the 18,000. Second- This "service" business part of this thread is just wild. Most every dealership for any equipment I know of has at least 2 different departments- Sales and Service. They may be in the same building, but they have two different sets of books. Sometimes they are two seperate corporations even. When that trailer goes through the shop for everything that has been mentioned before, there is a real live bill that gets generated. The sales department owns the trailer, so they pay it and add it to the trailer. So yes- it is a real cost, not just a "this mechanic guy was hanging around anyway so let him play with it" kind of thing. Sorry to be so long. But like Pinkmouse said, it is clear that there are some differences of opinion here.
Posted 2010-07-23 1:04 PM (#122726 - in reply to #122712) Subject: RE: Trading In
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Originally written by pinkmouse on 2010-07-23 7:52 AM
It could be implied, just as you took the liberty of implying the OP stated it would cost them nothing when they clearly stated the dealer would incur no cost above what they would already be paying in the normal cost of paying existing employees which I attempted to help clarify, to no avail.
I think that what everyone is trying to say is that the dealer will not incur any additional salaryexpense above and beyond what he normally pays. I totally agree with this. What I do not agree with is that there is no additional cost to the dealer. Salary expenses are just a subset of the total cost of running a business.
This thread reminds me of a conversation I had a couple of weeks ago with a person who was lamenting that their mother's doctor was no longer taking medicaid/medicare patients. I tried to explain that often the payments for service do not cover their costs. The person then said that the doctor should just lower his prices!! After a minute or two of this I realized the person had no clue how a business runs so I changed the subject as soon as I could.
Trading In
