Chrysler / GM to close dealerships.

Is there some reason you don't use a proper quoting character?

So the costs of doing that are going to be relatively fixed. There will
not be any reduction in the number of these "schools" being held on the
basis of location after the proposed dealerships have been closed.

One or two schools held in each state may run one or two less days
because of these dealership reductions.

I doubt that these schools are even run or taught by Chrysler corporate
employees. Probably a hired outside services company.

And like I said, the costs to develop / design the materials is high,
and you're going to pay that cost regardless if you have 1 student or
1000 students. The cost to print (replicate) the materials is going to
be very low.

The cost to travel will be marginally reduced, if at all. Chrysler (or
the company performing the actual "teaching") will still have to cover
the same geographic area. They will most likely still hold these
schools in the exact same venues, the same cities, etc. The difference
will be that there *could* be a slight reduction in the duration of some
of these schools at some of these locations.

And don't forget that if a dealership closes, and there is another
nearby and it remains in operation, that it may hire some of the sales
people that used to work at the now closed dealership, and if they do
then those people will still be attending this school, so there will be
no savings for Chrysler if that happens.

Very inefficient. The average conference room at your local Best
Western or Holiday Inn should be able to accomodate 20, 30 people. If
they can't organize those schools more efficiently to teach more sales
reps at a single sitting, then they obviously aren't trying to optimize
the costs of these schools to the extent that you feel these schools are
a huge expense for Chrysler.

What - you mean there's only one class per day? No evening classes?

And you are reluctant to consider the basic fact that in this incredibly
bad economy, that a dealership that can stay open, can operate in the
black, and sell cars for GM and Chrysler, that forcing such a dealership
to close is an incredibly stupid thing to do. There is no garantee that
the Chrysler and GM cars being sold by those dealerships now would be
sold by other GM and Chrysler dealerships in the future as opposed by a
foreign dealership.

For example, if there is a rural Chrysler dealership that sells 2 cars
per day, and it's forced to close, then it might very well be that the
closest Chrysler dealership that is still open will see it's sales
increase by only 1 car per day. The other car will be sold by a foreign
dealership (Toyota, Honda, Kia, etc).

The only "basic" fact here is that if a dealer is still in business
today, in this economy that is bordering on a depression, and if he's
selling cars for you, then you're a stupid ass if you cancel that
dealer's franchise agreement.

 

Even worse: "Your" instead of "You're"...

DAS

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