Dealerships Prioritize Profits Over Professionalism
It’s no secret that car dealerships have multiple ways to make money. The sales department profits from selling vehicles, while the finance department earns revenue from finance reserves and product sales. Meanwhile, the service department generates income through vehicle repairs, and the parts department profits from selling parts. Even body shops contribute by earning money […]
Car Prices To Increase
A few years ago, I wrote a post about the chip shortage causing a huge disruption in the supply chain and forcing automobile price increases. This year, a new problem threatens to disrupt the supply chain and place a great deal of pressure on pricing is “rare earths” or “rare earth elements”. Simply put, they […]
We Cheat the Car Buying System
Finding good deals on cars is something that every customer wants us to do for them as their personal car shopper. The thing is that each customer defines “good deal” a bit differently. A large subset of our customers want us to save their time and by doing all the legwork for them, they consider […]
How To Avoid A Used Car Scam
Supply and demand is king in the car world. Too much supply and prices drop. Too much demand and prices increase. USA Today reports that demand has increased to the point that the “Average 3 Year Old Used Car Price is $30,000”. It goes on the report that the age of the average trade in […]
A Car Design Icon Passes Away
William Porter The Designer Of The GTO and Firebird William Porter has passed away. Please understand, I had never heard of him until the other day when I happened upon the above article discussing his contributions to automobile design. He was the design head for the ’68 Pontiac GTO. The GTO ignited the muscle car […]
The Car Dealership Profit Center
When I was running car dealerships, we averaged about $3300 a car sold. That put us about $600 higher than the national average. The crazy thing is that the profit on the vehicle sold was always the same at around $1500, then we would “steal” a couple of hundred dollars off the trade making our […]
Texas Car Concierge–Fun and Easy Car Shopping
Happy and proud. That’s the best way to describe how we are feeling. Why? Well, because we are now Texas Car Concierge. A little over four years ago, we started this company hoping to help the folks in Central Texas and honestly, we had a blast. We started right as car availability and pricing went […]
The Return To Normalcy
A Return To Normalcy Hello and welcome back!!! I hope everyone has had a wonderful Labor Day Weekend. Here in the car world, we were busy with Labor Day Sales but now things are back to normal. Normal not just in terms of Labor Day Events, but the car business. It would appear that we […]
The Playbook
Car dealerships are an interesting place. They have a sort of monopoly on how business is transacted and the customer pretty much has to follow along. Of course, you can look around and hopefully find that one dealer that does it a little different this time, but that’s a lot of time spent on your […]
Gin and Tonic on the Patio
It’s been a long week–a good week but a long week. We’ve helped a few customers and made a few friends. Laughed too hard at our Dad jokes. But the reality is that you just gotta say it’s been a winning week. But our week isn’t done yet because we have […]