a single dealer will not get the allocation to handle a bulk order. similar to the ford gt supercar, but not as drastic, there wont be enough to go around. a dealer would not be able to guarantee a large bulk order with out someone gifting the dealer with 'plus' cars, ie, cars over and above an earned allocation that would otherwise be fair to all dealers. then the remaining dealers would be further short changed by having fewer to spread around. the dealer relations issue and lost gross to the dlrs not getting their earned fair share of cars because one dlr or a few dlrs got the bulk of em would be insurmountable. bill, motown. -----Original Message----- From: Shlbyman@aol.com [mailto:Shlbyman@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 1:14 PM To: shelbymustang@carmemories.com Subject: SHELBY BULK ORDER wouldn't a dealer such as say-a dealer in Las Vegas, for example, work with a group-discount to gain publicity not to mention $800k to $1m in sales all in one day -to one group? Roger, 70 1156
Each region has a Deal Association. So if you are talking say Vegas it would be limited but if you are talking the Ford Southern California Dealer Association then you may get somewhere.They would get the allocation Randall ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Wells To: Shlbyman@aol.com ; shelbymustang@carmemories.com Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 6:26 AM Subject: RE: SHELBY BULK ORDER a single dealer will not get the allocation to handle a bulk order. similar to the ford gt supercar, but not as drastic, there wont be enough to go around. a dealer would not be able to guarantee a large bulk order with out someone gifting the dealer with 'plus' cars, ie, cars over and above an earned allocation that would otherwise be fair to all dealers. then the remaining dealers would be further short changed by having fewer to spread around. the dealer relations issue and lost gross to the dlrs not getting their earned fair share of cars because one dlr or a few dlrs got the bulk of em would be insurmountable. bill, motown. -----Original Message----- From: Shlbyman@aol.com [mailto:Shlbyman@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 1:14 PM To: shelbymustang@carmemories.com Subject: SHELBY BULK ORDER wouldn't a dealer such as say-a dealer in Las Vegas, for example, work with a group-discount to gain publicity not to mention $800k to $1m in sales all in one day -to one group? Roger, 70 1156
