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Old Jun 14, 2005 | 09:23 PM
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In our local paper today GM bigwigs decided to give employee discounts to all buyers to help the sales go up from their downward trend from 04 and on. THere is no actual report yet on their numbers however dealers all around have noticed a jump from 20 sales a day to 100 plus a day and this will last until the first wk in july. Now do you guys think this will get them outta their slump or what?
 
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Old Jun 14, 2005 | 09:35 PM
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itll help a bit, but not much
 
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Old Jun 14, 2005 | 09:39 PM
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Not out of the hole, it's going to take more then that. I like the idea though.


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Old Jun 15, 2005 | 03:11 AM
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In our local paper today GM bigwigs decided to give employee discounts to all buyers to help the sales go up from their downward trend from 04 and on. THere is no actual report yet on their numbers however dealers all around have noticed a jump from 20 sales a day to 100 plus a day and this will last until the first wk in july. Now do you guys think this will get them outta their slump or what?
This is not new news. And it's only on 2005 models. NO 2006 will get the discount
 
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Old Jun 15, 2005 | 03:16 AM
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Ends July 5th I believe also. Not that long.


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Old Jun 15, 2005 | 03:16 PM
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It started on June 1st. GM lowered rebates too. I think it is to make reducing rebate amounts invisible to the consumer.
 
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Old Jun 20, 2005 | 06:32 PM
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Just got word that Ford WILL follow and do the same thing with the customer=worker discount thing. They must be hurting as well...


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Old Jun 21, 2005 | 04:48 AM
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Just got word that Ford WILL follow and do the same thing with the customer=worker discount thing. They must be hurting as well...


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Of course!

DCX doesn't have to do this. But yet, it's said around here "DCX is going down the drain". yeah right
 
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Old Jun 21, 2005 | 05:30 AM
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DCX does do it. Hello, emp choice? Ever heard of it. All you need is to know an emp, and bingo you get the discount. We've had this for over a year! On a side note getting laid off for another 3 weeks fo "inventory adjustments", but everything is just ducky in dcx land!

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Old Jun 22, 2005 | 01:01 AM
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What I meant was we dont have to annouce it on commercials every 5 minutes on TV for every one of our sub brands. Talk about desperate.

When it comes to sales, Ford down, GM down, Chrysler up.


Joe - You think it's bad that you get laid off for a weeks at a time? What about the thousands of GM employees that will be laid off for good by 2009! Suddenly, it doesn't seem so bad does it?
 
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