employee pricing

duhtroll said:
Love the quote about the Impala!
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And the survey says ......... "The Impala is a car for people who don't care a lot about cars," said Michael Quincy, automotive content specialist for Consumer Reports magazine." :rofl:
 
Bluerauder said:
And the survey says ......... "The Impala is a car for people who don't care a lot about cars," said Michael Quincy, automotive content specialist for Consumer Reports magazine." :rofl:
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The one that got my attention is the Chevy Avalanche. One of the six best worth owning! :shake:

What in the hell are they talking about? With a $9,000 mark-up?
Frankly, I've never understood why anyone would buy one of those; but we must consider the source: namely Consumer Reports.

Those are the very same folks who advised us to go ahead and buy the Toyota Camry, even though the electrical malfunction could cause you to get locked IN your precious ricer. Just get a hammer, they advised, and if it should happen to you (and it surely will) just break out the window, to escape. :eek:
 
I always said that GM desecrated its brand names by affixing them to these FWD POS cars.

That thing is not an "Impala." They stopped making Impalas in 1996.

Same with "Grand Prix," "Malibu," "Monte Carlo" and no doubt others.

I'll be forwarding that quote to several people.
 
Bluerauder said:
And the survey says ......... "The Impala is a car for people who don't care a lot about cars,"
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One more thing: To qualify as someone who doesn't care about cars you must think of them as transportation appliances. This is done the same way they think about kitchen appliances, such as toasters, coffee makers, and bread makers.

Just open your trusty Consumers Reports annual and pick out the best one.

Of course, people who do this, don't actually have their own copy of Consumer's Reports, they take public transportation to the local library and get the information free. ;)
 
Cynic that I am when it comes to car sales, I always thought it translated something like this:

Come in for Employee Pricing - pay the same prices our employees do!
***************this really means**********************
We can't sell these dogs to save our lives! This is just another dumb ad campaign! We screw OUR OWN EMPLOYEES on car deals just like we do the general public!
 
ckadiddle said:
Cynic that I am when it comes to car sales, I always thought it translated something like this:

Come in for Employee Pricing - pay the same prices our employees do!
***************this really means**********************
We can't sell these dogs to save our lives! This is just another dumb ad campaign! We screw OUR OWN EMPLOYEES on car deals just like we do the general public!
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You should see the "Supplier Discount." :cool:
 
Mike Poore said:
One more thing: To qualify as someone who doesn't care about cars you must think of them as transportation appliances. This is done the same way they think about kitchen appliances, such as toasters, coffee makers, and bread makers.
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What about those of us who shop for performance appliances? My coffee maker is one of the fastest on the market. :burnout:
 
Mike Poore said:
Of course, people who do this, don't actually have their own copy of Consumer's Reports, they take public transportation to the local library and get the information free. ;)
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Not that there is anything wrong with that...

My Soon to be Mrs. Shaft = Librarian :D
 
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Yup Mike.... I agree; have always felt (and often stated so) that the folks who swear by the various C.R. vehicle reports subscibe to a mentality that views passenger car and light truck purchases in the same light as buying home appliances. To their way of thinking the motor vehicle is simply just another very large, major appliance. Are these people wrong??? Don't know... maybe we are just vehicle obsessed.
Mike Poore said:
One more thing: To qualify as someone who doesn't care about cars you must think of them as transportation appliances. This is done the same way they think about kitchen appliances, such as toasters, coffee makers, and bread makers.

Just open your trusty Consumers Reports annual and pick out the best one.

Of course, people who do this, don't actually have their own copy of Consumer's Reports, they take public transportation to the local library and get the information free. ;)
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wsmylie said:
Yup Mike.... I agree; have always felt (and often stated so) that the folks who swear by the various C.R. vehicle reports subscibe to a mentality that views passenger car and light truck purchases in the same light as buying home appliances. To their way of thinking the motor vehicle is simply just another very large, major appliance. Are these people wrong??? Don't know... maybe we are just vehicle obsessed.
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When we were doing other remodeling ("modding" the house?), we bought some new kitchen appliances just cause they looked cool! Old ones were still working OK. Sexy glass top stove in black with stainless. The new microwave is stainless with a built-in toaster, the bread goes in sideways! How cool is that ?!! Kitchen sink is black slate looking with brushed stainless looking neo-retro faucet. Light fixture is cool looking too. I guess we buy house stuff the same way we buy cars! :D Didn't consult Consumer Digest once. heeheehee
 
It's even worse!

ckadiddle said:
Cynic that I am when it comes to car sales, I always thought it translated something like this:

Come in for Employee Pricing - pay the same prices our employees do!
***************this really means**********************
We can't sell these dogs to save our lives!
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It means they are desperate to move vehicles, in order to make some money by financing them for people. (Though how you can make money lending at zero percent financing is questionable.)

Certainly, it signals they have extremely stagnant demand for new vehicles, which is what you get when you've canabalized future sales by practically giving customers money for nothing or offering 6-year financing so they could buy a bigger ticket vehicle, which they have no hope of paying off early and where their loan is underwater longer.

Jeremy
Mad1
 
Shaft333 said:
Not that there is anything wrong with that...

My Soon to be Mrs. Shaft = Librarian :D
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Absolutely nothing, and congratulations to you and the soon to be Mrs. Shaft

I see you're 31, what took you so long to discover your future bride. I was 27, and thought it to be something of a record, at least in these parts. ;)
 
Mike Poore said:
Absolutely nothing, and congratulations to you and the soon to be Mrs. Shaft

I see you're 31, what took you so long to discover your future bride. I was 27, and thought it to be something of a record, at least in these parts. ;)
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Thanks!

Less than a month to go..
 
Man-oh-man, lots of dissing of Consumer Reports here, and I just recently heard a mention to that "honest" publication not long ago...Now, where was that? Ummm...It's somewhere here, I'm sure...Maybe something to do with giving opinions about mods, and our "wars"?

Oh well, (shrug) so much for the "Consumer Reports" aspect of it all...

Kind of a stupid comparasion anyway...
 
We are straying off with the Consumer Reports issue but I do have to say that I have worked in consumer electronics for a long long time now and I know from experience what brands and models are crap and which ones are not and try to use that experience to guide customers into what I know works and works well (I'm not talking about upselling, I'm talking about showing someone another brand at the same price).

That publication never fails to give kudos to the worst crap ever made saying its the best 'value'. If you want 'value' quit subscribing to that magazine and just shop at Wal Mart for your stuff. All that junk in the electronics section is a great 'value'.

It irritates me to see people come in carrying that magazine like its a bible and get XYZ project because some nerd played with it for a month or so but gripe and complain later because it's broke/acting up/not doing as well as joe blow said it would.
 
I think they're very honest. The problem is that they are also very biased in their attitudes about people who use up the resources. Inside that shiny magazine cover lurk a bunch of tree huggers. They think folks who drive big cars are gas guzzling poluting savages--even if the cars we are driving are damn fine examples of engineering and manufacturing excellence. They allow their opinions to color their evaluations.......and they either don't even realize what they are doing, or they are so arrogant that they put no value in any opinions but their own.
SergntMac said:
Man-oh-man, lots of dissing of Consumer Reports here, and I just recently heard a mention to that "honest" publication not long ago...Now, where was that? Ummm...It's somewhere here, I'm sure...Maybe something to do with giving opinions about mods, and our "wars"?

Oh well, (shrug) so much for the "Consumer Reports" aspect of it all...

Kind of a stupid comparasion anyway...
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