As a person from germany, this feels weird - like, why do you even need a delivery to the consumer? in germany, we have car seller shops. Even in the case where you live in a rural area, i’d imagine you can go to one such shop with 2 persons and you drive your new car home back and the other person drives with their car home.
I mean, i don’t know stuff about cars, since i don’t even have one (i can rely on trains and busses for my needs)
Car dealerships in America are like legalized shell entities to protect manufacturers from liability and add an extra layer of corrupt in the middle. I really think people should spend more time reading their legal contracts, especially when buying a new car. Car salespeople can lie about pretty much anything & as long as you sign the agreement, there isn’t much you can do, and it almost certainly has an arbitration clause as well.
What Tesla managed to do (in some states, at least) is introduce a direct sale model that allows them to sell their cars directly to the customer with no middleman.
Yes, it’s incredibly stupid. Hi, I’m American and I hate it here.
As a person from germany, this feels weird - like, why do you even need a delivery to the consumer? in germany, we have car seller shops. Even in the case where you live in a rural area, i’d imagine you can go to one such shop with 2 persons and you drive your new car home back and the other person drives with their car home.
I mean, i don’t know stuff about cars, since i don’t even have one (i can rely on trains and busses for my needs)
Car dealerships in America are like legalized shell entities to protect manufacturers from liability and add an extra layer of corrupt in the middle. I really think people should spend more time reading their legal contracts, especially when buying a new car. Car salespeople can lie about pretty much anything & as long as you sign the agreement, there isn’t much you can do, and it almost certainly has an arbitration clause as well.
I think you’re misunderstanding the situation. In the Great U.S. of A.™®©, car manufacturers are forbidden to sell directly to customers, and instead are required to go through independently-owned dealerships that act as middlemen between the manufacturer and the customer. This allows dealerships to arbitrarily control how the cars are sold, add unremovable “dealer options”, and that thing everybody loves: markups! The manufacturers have no control over this.
What Tesla managed to do (in some states, at least) is introduce a direct sale model that allows them to sell their cars directly to the customer with no middleman.
Yes, it’s incredibly stupid. Hi, I’m American and I hate it here.