Talk:Car dealerships in the USA

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Is there anybody here that is familiar with or has worked for a car dealership in the past? If so, and you have some time I would really appreciate it if you could e-mail me. I have a few questions, which should not take too long. My e-mail is Bbardes@hotmail.com

Thank You

This article is a classic! Here we have, in Wikipedia, a supposedly international on-line encyclopedia. However, anyone reading this article might be forgiven for thinking that car dealerships are a purely American phenomenon. This article seems to have been "written" by someone in America who is unaware that there are any other locations at all in the rest of the world. The author seems to think that America is the world, and the world is America.

I'm going to rename this one to "Car dealerships in the US". It's just too much effort to give it an international perspective. I'll set up a new article called "Car dealership" for the world at large.

It's depressing to note that there's so much material in Wikipedia similar to this. Arcturus

[edit] Deleted most of the article

I decided to get rid of most of the article and replaced a few things mostly because it was very off topic. Most of the article was how to work in a dealership, none of it helped me know more about them.

This article needs serious work, I may have time to do more research later.

I agree that this article needs serious work, but trimming it to a list of car dealership brands was definitely overkill, so I reverted the deletion. Caerwine 04:04, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Restructuring

This article ought to be about what car dealerships do, not what car salesmen do. Car dealers sell cars and offer some additional services. I've tried to structure it that way, but I still think we need to flesh out the business model of car dealers' core activities (selling cars, buying trade-ins, financing purchases, servicing cars, etc.).

It seems like two issues that would be useful to tackle beyond this (perhaps alongside regulation) are why the US automobile distribution channel worked out this way (some history, along with some description of the legal issues that are emerging in an eBay world), and some discussion of sales tactics/compensation. Why do they call them "used car salesmen" anyway? Gary 13:07, 28 October 2005 (UTC)


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I added a lot more information, mostly on the additional services offered by car dealerships. -

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