Topic: Best Buy considering selling cars

[LadyVirginia]

Since gas prices are up, hybrid and electric vehicles like the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf are looking more and more attractive. And when you start shopping for a new electric vehicle, Best Buy might eventually be on the list of dealerships you visit. “The Minneapolis-based chain is hoping to segue into the EV sales market in the long-term,” writes Automobile Magazine. “Selling electric vehicles would not be completely new territory for Best Buy, as they are already selling the Brammo electric motorcycle and will be the customer’s point of contact for 240-volt home chargers for the 2012 Mitsubishi i EV and 2013 Ford Focus Electric.”

http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/daily-news/110510-Best-Buy-Looks-to-Sell-EVs-In-Store/


I'm sure a certain percentage of sheeple will buy these things.

[John Florida]

You will never see cars there!

[Pandora]

Since gas prices are up, hybrid and electric vehicles like the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf are looking more and more attractive.

Well, that was the plan, wasn't it?  Create an artificial market through punitive regulation and imposed hardship?

I'd like to ...... meh; better not say.

[LadyVirginia]

Well, that was the plan, wasn't it?  Create an artificial market through punitive regulation and imposed hardship?

Unfortunately for the them, too many Americans expect a car they want to drive.  No one aspires to a car they have to drive.

[Libertas]

They made the mistake of over-building stores and turned their corporate headquarters into a ghost town and now they think they can step into this and succeed, and with these POS's?

I don't care how maany smug fart-sniffing proglodytes they think they can lure...this venture would doom this company once and for all!

They are truly nucking futs!

[John Florida]

They made the mistake of over-building stores and turned their corporate headquarters into a ghost town and now they think they can step into this and succeed, and with these POS's?

I don't care how maany smug fart-sniffing proglodytes they think they can lure...this venture would doom this company once and for all!

They are truly nucking futs!

 They will never get cars for resale!!!Two words: "FRANCHISE AGREEMENTS"

[Libertas]

They made the mistake of over-building stores and turned their corporate headquarters into a ghost town and now they think they can step into this and succeed, and with these POS's?

I don't care how maany smug fart-sniffing proglodytes they think they can lure...this venture would doom this company once and for all!

They are truly nucking futs!

 They will never get cars for resale!!!Two words: "FRANCHISE AGREEMENTS"

Hmm, good point.  Unless they can swing a deal on that point they won't be doing any such thing.  But people can be bought, question is what's the asking price and what can the buyer afford?

Frankly, they are nuts to even float the idea, it should've never escaped someones brain...

[John Florida]

They made the mistake of over-building stores and turned their corporate headquarters into a ghost town and now they think they can step into this and succeed, and with these POS's?

I don't care how maany smug fart-sniffing proglodytes they think they can lure...this venture would doom this company once and for all!

They are truly nucking futs!

 They will never get cars for resale!!!Two words: "FRANCHISE AGREEMENTS"

Hmm, good point.  Unless they can swing a deal on that point they won't be doing any such thing.  But people can be bought, question is what's the asking price and what can the buyer afford?

Frankly, they are nuts to even float the idea, it should've never escaped someones brain...

 Nothing about best buys conforms to what the factory demand that a dealer have and the licencing bureaus make demands and the dealers in the area won't allow then in their turf and the factory has signed contracts that give the dealers the territory. So this guy is blowing smoke up every bodys AZZ.

[Libertas]

They made the mistake of over-building stores and turned their corporate headquarters into a ghost town and now they think they can step into this and succeed, and with these POS's?

I don't care how maany smug fart-sniffing proglodytes they think they can lure...this venture would doom this company once and for all!

They are truly nucking futs!

 They will never get cars for resale!!!Two words: "FRANCHISE AGREEMENTS"

Hmm, good point.  Unless they can swing a deal on that point they won't be doing any such thing.  But people can be bought, question is what's the asking price and what can the buyer afford?

Frankly, they are nuts to even float the idea, it should've never escaped someones brain...

 Nothing about best buys conforms to what the factory demand that a dealer have and the licencing bureaus make demands and the dealers in the area won't allow then in their turf and the factory has signed contracts that give the dealers the territory. So this guy is blowing smoke up every bodys AZZ.

Then I am left with the inescapable conclusion that this guy is going through all this BS for what, just to kiss the butts of smug fart-sniffing eco-nazi proglodytes?

Pretty sucky approach he's got there!  What about the non-proglodyte customers he's disrespecting?

 

[Pandora]

Would I be out of line here for suggesting that the old rule of contract/laws no longer apply?

[Libertas]

Would I be out of line here for suggesting that the old rule of contract/laws no longer apply?

Yes, and no, in todays muddled world, I guess the party with the better trial lawyers and political connections may likely swing the balance.

[John Florida]

Would I be out of line here for suggesting that the old rule of contract/laws no longer apply?

 Yes.

[John Florida]

Would I be out of line here for suggesting that the old rule of contract/laws no longer apply?

Yes, and no, in todays muddled world, I guess the party with the better trial lawyers and political connections may likely swing the balance.

 This isn't the Feds making a deal with a court over bankruptcy. This is the dealers all over the country that aren't giving an inch of turf to anybody. These guy that are still in business have huge investments just just the physical structures to even become dealers. They had to pass by what the factory demands you have as a building,parking lot for the inventory,parts,service ans signage.

 Then they have to pass state licencing requirements in dealer and repairers licencing. The factory even tell you what the lighting outside has to be.


 How many of the best buy stores do think will come close to any of the requirements??They don't even service the products they sell now.

[IronDioPriest]

Well, that was the plan, wasn't it?  Create an artificial market through punitive regulation and imposed hardship?

Unfortunately for the them, too many Americans expect a car they want to drive.  No one aspires to a car they have to drive.

Your liberal urban hive-dwellers might not mind. They don't consider a car an aspiration, only a mode of transportation that the lucky few should own while the rest ride the city bus or the choo-choo train.

[Pandora]

Would I be out of line here for suggesting that the old rule of contract/laws no longer apply?

 Yes.

Really.

Want to tell that to the GM dealers whose franchises were cancelled for .... pick any ole political damn reason?

How about to the GM bondholders who were told to take what they were given during the bailout or get stuffed, when they should have been first to get theirs, so the unions got it instead?

Want to tell that to the banks who were ordered to take porkulus money, even when they said no?

I could go on, but that's enough.

So, tell me again, how the usual contract law applies anywhere now if the government decides it doesn't.

[IronDioPriest]

...This isn't the Feds making a deal with a court over bankruptcy. This is the dealers all over the country that aren't giving an inch of turf to anybody. These guy that are still in business have huge investments just just the physical structures to even become dealers. They had to pass by what the factory demands you have as a building,parking lot for the inventory,parts,service ans signage....

Oh, you mean like the many hundreds of dealers that were arbitrarily shut down by GM and Chrysler at the demand of the federal government? All those businessmen who played by the rules and did everything right, who thought they had "turf" to protect, but who were summarily told that they were no longer in business?

I would suggest that your well-respected insiders view here was valid pre-Obama John. It seems to me that things we once assumed as fact and practices we once assumed were sacred have had the foundations yanked out from under them.

In the New World, if the federal government wants Best Buy to sell electric cars, then Best Buy will sell electric cars, assuming that the proper homage is paid.

[John Florida]

...This isn't the Feds making a deal with a court over bankruptcy. This is the dealers all over the country that aren't giving an inch of turf to anybody. These guy that are still in business have huge investments just just the physical structures to even become dealers. They had to pass by what the factory demands you have as a building,parking lot for the inventory,parts,service ans signage....

Oh, you mean like the many hundreds of dealers that were arbitrarily shut down by GM and Chrysler at the demand of the federal government? All those businessmen who played by the rules and did everything right, who thought they had "turf" to protect, but who were summarily told that they were no longer in business?

I would suggest that your well-respected insiders view here was valid pre-Obama John. It seems to me that things we once assumed as fact and practices we once assumed were sacred have had the foundations yanked out from under them.

In the New World, if the federal government wants Best Buy to sell electric cars, then Best Buy will sell electric cars, assuming that the proper homage is paid.

 The only way they got away with it was through a bankruptcy court. Do you think they're willing to do that one again?? That would be the end of the American Auto industry in this country.Best buy doesn't have the money to take on all those dealers and not to mention the Korean and Japanese governments that will back their dealers.

[Pandora]

...This isn't the Feds making a deal with a court over bankruptcy. This is the dealers all over the country that aren't giving an inch of turf to anybody. These guy that are still in business have huge investments just just the physical structures to even become dealers. They had to pass by what the factory demands you have as a building,parking lot for the inventory,parts,service ans signage....

Oh, you mean like the many hundreds of dealers that were arbitrarily shut down by GM and Chrysler at the demand of the federal government? All those businessmen who played by the rules and did everything right, who thought they had "turf" to protect, but who were summarily told that they were no longer in business?

I would suggest that your well-respected insiders view here was valid pre-Obama John. It seems to me that things we once assumed as fact and practices we once assumed were sacred have had the foundations yanked out from under them.

In the New World, if the federal government wants Best Buy to sell electric cars, then Best Buy will sell electric cars, assuming that the proper homage is paid.

 The only way they got away with it was through a bankruptcy court. Do you think they're willing to do that one again?? That would be the end of the American Auto industry in this country.Best buy doesn't have the money to take on all those dealers and not to mention the Korean and Japanese governments that will back their dealers.

IIRC, they didn't go through bankruptcy court!  THAT'S the problem!

[charlesoakwood]

and all they will need to do is reread the requirements and discover that sales of electric vehicles do not come under the same requirements as those toxic gasoline powered vehicles.

In fact upon further review it seems many dealership (especially Ford and Toyota) properties will be reclassified as hazardous toxic areas that will require extensive reclamation.

[Predator Don]

If BestBuy starts pumping money into selling electric cars....

Make sure thier stock is not in any of your 401K's.