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Originally Posted by Striker01
If you cut out the dealer there will be a complete absence of any discount or deals.
I also don’t know how you will go about if you have an issue with your car.
You might have to play the role of that middle man that the dealer once acted as.
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Why would you assume there'd be no discounts or deals? Do manufacturers never run specials? Do they never discount items that have too much inventory, or as a mechanism to goose sales? Why would cars not behave like every other good or service? Are people really under the impression that the only reason a car is ever discounted is because of dealerships?
Obviously manufacturers are going to have to address maintenance, whether that's them running regional service centers or current dealerships morphing into only service centers. I don't think anyone's saying that you'll just be on your own.
But again, this is all just fantasy, because it ain't happening in the US in our lifetimes. Lawmakers are going to remain bought by NADA.