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Well let's see, a dealership has costs to pay as well. Trust me, I don't like the idea of defending them, but if I were a business owner and widgets XYZ were in short supply and I only sold widgets XYZ, wouldn't I need to increase the price of widget XYZ in order to stay afloat? I mean if I was selling 500 XYZ widgets a month at about a profit of $500 per widget, then suddenly I was only getting 5 of them, how much more can I sell them for and be forgiven? I'd have to sell them for $50000 a piece to maintain the same profits and make sure my employees get paid, right?
Of course, the flip side of this is to have something worth trading in, right? At least give the dealership a chance to make some of that money via their used car sales. I would've loved to make more than the $41K that I made on my trade-in as a vehicle similar to mine with the same condition and MORE miles is selling for closer to $50K. As I have been monitoring the dealer's website, it looks like they added $8K to my trade-in. Oh well, at least they can try to make some money on my last car, not my new one. I think we need to keep things in perspective.
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