Angrey
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Yeah, I grow tired of this convenient separation between Ford and dealers. I don't buy it. Ford can, should and does write in their agreements with dealers and distributors any number of mandatory requirements as well as prohibitions and exclusions. If a dealer is doing something, it's because Ford allows it, directly or indirectly (through not requiring or prohibiting it in their agreements).
This shit where Ford hides when dealers charge rapist markups (that Ford creates by simply not making enough cars that people ARE WILLING TO BUY AT THEIR STATED MSRP) is not only frustrating to loyalists, it's patently stupid from a business standpoint (Thankfully I'm not a direct shareholder or voting member, I'd force them all to attend 100 level business classes on what happens when a manufacturer consciously and extensively shorts supply).
Don't even get me started on the shitty "Ford" problems where they hide/conceal/deny for as long as they can (so as not to expose themselves to claims for previous or future issues). Everything from bad evaporator cores/compressors to shitty paint bubbling to oil consumption, teacup fragile transmissions, etc. I know every manufacturer that is as big as Ford has quality challenges, but Ford simply ignores them and keeps pumping out vehicles with the same goddamned defects for half a decade before they finally go "yeah, we should probably not renew that contract."
Then we're now told, oh, don't blame Ford, it's the dealers who are cancelling. Or better, it's the Ford who's cancelling on the dealer, it's not their fault.
It's all a crock of shit. Ford sets what their policies are or aren't. There's PLENTY of dealers willing to sell their product.
In fact, while I despise gubment and intrusions on liberty, this type of shit makes one cheer for authoritarian statists who dream up laws surrounding carriage, steerage, etc.
Imagine if airlines or freight companies could just take your money well in advance and at the last second they could just cancel your order with ZERO restitution.
Sure, you could just avoid that company in the future, but that doesn't do you much good in the moment.
There are rules and regulations around a lot of purchases in a lot of industries. I'm not a fan of it, but you can see where/how it gains traction.
This shit where Ford hides when dealers charge rapist markups (that Ford creates by simply not making enough cars that people ARE WILLING TO BUY AT THEIR STATED MSRP) is not only frustrating to loyalists, it's patently stupid from a business standpoint (Thankfully I'm not a direct shareholder or voting member, I'd force them all to attend 100 level business classes on what happens when a manufacturer consciously and extensively shorts supply).
Don't even get me started on the shitty "Ford" problems where they hide/conceal/deny for as long as they can (so as not to expose themselves to claims for previous or future issues). Everything from bad evaporator cores/compressors to shitty paint bubbling to oil consumption, teacup fragile transmissions, etc. I know every manufacturer that is as big as Ford has quality challenges, but Ford simply ignores them and keeps pumping out vehicles with the same goddamned defects for half a decade before they finally go "yeah, we should probably not renew that contract."
Then we're now told, oh, don't blame Ford, it's the dealers who are cancelling. Or better, it's the Ford who's cancelling on the dealer, it's not their fault.
It's all a crock of shit. Ford sets what their policies are or aren't. There's PLENTY of dealers willing to sell their product.
In fact, while I despise gubment and intrusions on liberty, this type of shit makes one cheer for authoritarian statists who dream up laws surrounding carriage, steerage, etc.
Imagine if airlines or freight companies could just take your money well in advance and at the last second they could just cancel your order with ZERO restitution.
Sure, you could just avoid that company in the future, but that doesn't do you much good in the moment.
There are rules and regulations around a lot of purchases in a lot of industries. I'm not a fan of it, but you can see where/how it gains traction.
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