I’m rather fond of how they solved the “hard plastic where you would touch the dash” problem with my car.

That all depends upon your definition of “better”.

As far as the performance and handling, don’t mess with perfection.

The Miata was never meant to win the race against other sports cars. It was always meant to be the most fun.

Most hard salamis are moldy to begin with, that whit-ish film on the outside of a “natural” hard salami is, in fact, mold.

Cheese can handle mold just fine.

Heck, if it gets moldy (or even rancid), it simply becomes a more expensive kind of cheese!

Competing bids are only different from an MVA in that a competing bid is an MVA that the buyer adds themselves.

If you only ever see one person at a time, and have to decide at that moment whether to sell to that one person, then you can’t have competing bids, and therefore as the seller you need to estimate the MVA…

Enthusiast car.
Not being made any more, thus supply is a fixed number, and not a variable.
Demand exceeds supply at MSRP.
Thus the price is modified until demand is lowered to equal supply.

What’s the difference?

I just read an article that there was a house in Oakland that had a “market value” of $495k, and listed at that, and it sold for $750k.

So it seems that the market determined that it was actually worth $750k, not the $495k that “experts” determined.

Should the seller have stopped them from getting into a bidding war and…

If someone asks $200k more than a house is “worth”, and another person pays that, what’s the problem? It seems to me that it was worth it to the person who paid that.

They are great guys to work with.

I like it here, except the owner. The general manager and service manager are great guys, and very ethical. Sales manager can be annoying, but he’s held in check by the general manager. Everyone who is on the floor here at the dealership is amazing to work with, and I’m proud to be…

Okay, let’s pretend for a moment that the “MSRP” for clothing is actually a “real” MSRP (Anyone who has worked fashion retail can tell you the only purpose of that fake “MSRP” is so that they can put a red sticker on it with the [i]actual[/i] MSRP, and claim that it’s a “sale”), What’s the difference between a limited…

The full repaint was due to sap/bird droppings discoloring the paint, not rust.
And my sales team is absolutely disclosing it, since the customer who bought the car has to wait over a week to pick it up because it’s still at the body shop

All of them are getting full 2 year maintenance services, 3 of them are requiring 4 wheel brake pads and rotors, 4 of them need batteries, one of them is getting a full repainting, and one is getting an engine harness. And that’s only the 7 we’ve had the chance to recondition in the last week.

As far as “worth it”,…

Yes, yes they are.

Within one week of being made available to sell, the dealership that I am a service adviser at has deposits on 11 cars, and they’re selling them at full MSRP.

These are 11 cars that have not even been test driven by the customer, because they’re not permitted to drive them until we recondition them…

That’s just a matter of where you go. I don’t know what it was like in 08 or earlier (the latest date you could possibly have an R32 under bumper to bumper), but due to Dieselgate, we’ve lost so much business that we’re finding ways to force through warranty work that we never would have tried before, because we just…

Actually, paint jobs are being covered. We’re actually getting paid by VW to do a full repaint of one car because it was parked under a tree, and has severe bird-dropping and sap related paint blemishes.

Door seals and window seals are a non-issue. In my time of being at VW, Window seals are only an issue if the…

Once again.

I’m not a salesperson.

I don’t charge MVA’s. I don’t make a penny off MVA’s. I simply work for an industry where MVA’s are actually called MVA’s.

But evidently MVA’s are enough of a normality that they’ve been used for decades, and the negative ramafications are not enough to stop dealerships from doing…

Every hotly desired car with limited inventory has always been hit with an MVA, it’s pretty standard procedure.

Also, as I said in the first post, I am not a salesman. I am in service.
The dealership is not adding an MVA onto the price of cars.

They’re just selling the cars at full MSRP so fast that I’m surprised…

Also, I’m a service advisor, not a salesman.

I couldn’t give a rats ass what price it was sold at. I just love the fact that we in service are finally seeing some profitable work coming from VW in the reconditioning of these stagnant cars.

Well, at my dealership we’ve had 11 customers in the last week put deposits down on full MSRP TDIs.

Me and the other guys in the *service* (not sales, Sleeksilver) department are scrambling to try to recondition these cars fast enough to keep up with the sales department.

Seeing all the work that they’re needing to…

I like that you compared it to an auction.

Have you ever been to an auction where the starting bid was too high?|

Have you noticed how the auctioneer lowers the price until someone bites?

Well, what if it truly was “first come first served” at that auction? That the first person to raise their hand gets it for that price?

…

I suppose you believe that the purpose of a business is not, in fact, to make money. Dislike it as much as you like, but dealerships are not charities.

And why is it not acceptable to have salespeople who have been suffering from severe financial hardship over the last 2 years to take a bit of extra profit where they…