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The dealers have just a a small number of weeks to sell out their hoard of Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep or run the risk of losing thousands of dollars on them and their only option is to offer current car buyers a significant deal. You have got some very good negotiating power, said Dave Champion, director of automobile testing for Consumer Reports magazine. [Dealers are] certainly looking to shift this inventory. It is just stacking up all around them.
Champion said that it is vital to find out about incentives and hold backs, which are payments the dealer gets when it sells a car. It is not a bad idea to go in there with a low ball price. The longer you wait, the less options you will have.
Both General Motors and Chrysler say they have too many dealers for too little sales. They have wanted to get rid of less precious showrooms so they would not exist at the injury of more valuable dealers. The cuts would allow the stronger dealers higher profits and additional money to spend on marketing, facilities and personnel, making them more competitive, also fitting in with the bankruptcy standards they must abide by in the way of helpful cost cutting measures.
Fear is affecting axed dealers as they try to figure out what to do with pricey inventories that were not selling well even before the bankruptcy move last month. They have told us that the inventory is our problem, said Keith Hollern, one of the owners of a Dodge dealer in Windber, Pa. Want to buy one? We are having a fire auction.
Dealers usually borrow money to buy their inventories, then repay the loans and make a income when the vehicles are sold. Sadly, Chrysler sales were down 46 percent the first quarter, so a lot of dealers have been paying only interest for months. Even if the vehicles are sold at cost, dealers still lose thousands in interest payments.
Chrysler does not have the money to buy back the vehicles, said company spokeswoman Kathy Graham, but it also does not want to leave dealers in a tight situation or see the inventory overflow the market at bargain prices. This has caused the majority of the dealers to sign a deal with GMAC Financial Services, Chryslers innovative finance company, to give loans to remaining dealers that Chrysler plans to keep so they can purchase the 789 dealers unsold inventory and sell it themselves. The deal, though, does not incorporate about 4,000 2008 models still on the lots that after the summer will not sell.
Graham said those 789 dealers cut down from the company will get Chrysler warranty compensation and sales incentives such as rebates and low-interest financing until June 9. After that, they will not have benefits on either. That means the dealers have a high motivation to sell off their inventory before their franchise agreements end. Chrysler incentives on some vehicles can progress as high as $6,000 or more. Without them, dealers who have been cut will not be competitive with standing dealers who can comfortably offer discounts.
They are not giving us a lot of time, said Michael Wolf, a Plymouth, Wisconsin Chrysler dealer whose franchise was amid those that will not be renewed. They are neglecting their liability of taking recent inventory. They are not taking anything back.
What will end up happening, if a dealer wants to stay in business, they will probably end up just selling it below cost just to get rid of it, said Erich Merkle, an automotive industry analyst from Grand Rapids, Michigan. You will possibly be able to find Chrysler vehicles perhaps at underneath the dealer cost.
Dale Horn, owner of a dealership in Malvern, Arkansas, who was one of the 789 that were cut, is not counting on any assistance from Chrysler to unload his inventory of 34 vehicles. Right now, I do not have much assurance that they will do what they say. Nobody has called me yet saying they are going to try to aid me, Horn said.
Waiting until the closure deadline might give buyers even greater buying power. Insiders say that inventory is beginning to dry up with word of the pending bargains. Waiting too long may be a detriment, stopping a buyer from getting their ideal car at their ideal bargain.To find out more about Going out of Business Sales then consider stopping by and reading more about us at Lucrative Investing.
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