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    Oh yea for sure. Service departments print money for dealerships. Sales exist as a way to get people to come to your service department. And yes in financing, that and warranties is how dealers make good money on new vehicle sales.
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    I was taught that line my first week lol. It’s deceiving because they aren’t mentioning the holdback. Now the holdback is small for the overall price of the truck, but it is something the dealer gets (assuming it wasn’t a dealer trade). There are rare times when a dealer loses money selling a vehicle, but that is only in special circumstances such as needing to meet a manufacturer quota ( dealership gets a bonus from the manufacturer for a certain amount of new vehicles sold, last day of the month they sell 2 vehicles at a loss to reach that quota, but immediately make that money back from the manufacturer for making their goal). It’s not so much they are losing money (they aren’t) but that an $1,100 margin seems incredibly small for a $59,000 truck. You are right about the warranties, dealers clean house with those and make more money just from selling warranties for a new vehicle than they do from simply selling a new vehicle. Another way dealers make money on new cars is financing kick backs from the bank. People think cash is king, but it’s actually the opposite
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    Correct. I will keep calling til they tell me to stop calling lol. After a month I’ll give up
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    New cars bring in very little money, the profit is in pre owned cars. For instance, an ST Explorer I just finalized after 2 weeks of doing nothing, has a sticker price of $59,000 and invoice (what the dealer purchased it from Ford for) is about $57,000. Pretty much every dealership is selling at invoice nowadays due to competition, so the only money the dealer will make is holdback, which for a $59,000 vehicle is about $1,100. Keep in mind you lose holdback on dealer trades, so if you have to locate a vehicle like I did, there is no holdback money.
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    They need to spread that wealth out this way lol. This entire year has been super dead, after a great autumn.
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    0% financing is rarely worth it because you lose thousands in rebate money. Ah yes, the good ole $394 dealer doc fee lol
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    Ford gives zero fucks right now. Invoice is around $56,000 with zero rebate money lol (unless you finance at 5.99% smh)
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    Steamboat’s layout is horrible so you pretty much have to wait in those lines
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    Nice bus shelter
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    Miss you @phillycore!
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    I see Ryan’s wife as well
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    Steamboat had the worst lines of any resort I’ve ever been to by far. Most resorts usually only have lines in the bottom lifts, but steamboat had lines everywhere
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    Oil rig lift! greek peak’s glade are fun as hell, nobody seems to go in the one on the middle of the mtn
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    According to NOAA, Malvern reporting 9 inches as of noon. Not a single flake on the pavement on the entire drive home til I got to conshy, where roads were completely covered. Time to shovel the driveway
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    She is the GOAT PASR. She’s the Jordan, Ruth, Gretzky, and Brady of this PASR stuff
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    Welcome to PASR!
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    Nothing at all amazing about doing the right thing and being a halfway decent human being, especially towards someone who’s given you, me, and alot of PASR’s free hookups over the years
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    That event still bothers me all these years later. Keep in mind, I was the only minor present, everyone else was grown adults and still pulled that fuck boy shit. I was wondering why the high school kid had a greater sense of decency than the grown adults present
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    You were one of the people who ditched Barb, then a few years later after she moved to Colorado, you decided you didn’t want to ditch her anymore and instead wanted to use her personal hot tub.
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    That’s almost as messed up as spending weeks begging Barb to drive 2.5 hours to blue, then immediate ditching her first run. PASRs pretend this didn’t happen but I remember
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    Mantras are the best ski ever made
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    @saltyant take the mantras!
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    I admit I got sucked into watching this lol. They achieved their goal of getting on the news in all 50 states
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    Good to see ya killing it out there salty!
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