The Tesla backlash

Staphory is right, I would say that only about 1/3 of the Salesman that dealerships have are career guys and even fewer will stay with one company for years. And dealerships definitely make their money on the back end (service) If you have good mechanics they can do jobs in half the billable hours and double or better the number of jobs you push through all while billing the time that it typically takes for the job. Not that sales does not have boom months - you just can't count on it like you can service.

Dealerships don't own their inventory anyway. They are financed, often by a sub-company of the manufacturer (the same companies in the retail finance side NMAC, Chrysler Credit, Primus - Fords company) They come out and do Audits monthly to make sure that you have not sold cars and not payed them off. If you get out of trust with them, they will place a representative at your company that holds the titles and the dealer must pay the finance company on the spot to get the title.

I thought this thread was going to be about a cancelled tour. 5 Man Acoustic Jam was awesome.