Comments on: Unretired GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz on GM’s New eBay Experiment

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Tech News » eBay finds of the day: Vectrix maxiscooters — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:29:45 +0000

[...] Unretired GM Vice Chariman Bob Lutz on GM’s New eBay Experiment [...]

By: GmsAJoke

GmsAJoke — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:50:50 +0000

$2k for an extended warranty? Are you out of your fricking mind? Does GM really charge that much, because if they do that just means they KNOW the car is going to break down and they need to recoup something.

By: GmsAJoke

GmsAJoke — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:39:54 +0000

Devolutionary you mean.

Okay, this guy order one blue with with option x,y,z,f,g,e,j,f,d
And this guy order red with option s,f,t,g,d,e

Oh wait, no that blue was supposed to have option k,j,g,d,r,t,l

Ahh shit, start over.

Assembly line procedures save money, ask Henry Ford Sr. You want option x, it comes with package B. You want to nickle and dime, its gonna cost you dollars.

The size of the parts and complexity in putting a car together cannot be compared to something as small and as easy as the lego block assembly of a computer or Ipod.

By: GmsAJoke

GmsAJoke — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:24:19 +0000

Its just one more link in the chain to raise the price you pay.

Either it is a fee paid seperate to ebay by the buyer, or it is a fee added into the price you see, the end result is the car now has that little bit of extra cost, plus the dealer needed fee to pick it up. Or did you think all these links do business for free?

By: statik

statik — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:39:49 +0000

Reply to me, and to update (as if anyone is lurking way the heck back here). There are rumblings in Oshawa, and HQ that the G8 WILL indeed rumble back to life (as it was originally intented) on the Zeta platform here.

If this rumor ends up true, thats both of the G8s problem solved…and total GM domination for public service vehicles for the next…decade? ie) police cruisers

By: Dave K.

Dave K. — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:36:28 +0000

Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:28pm EDT

…considering bringing the Pontiac G8 full-size sedan into the Chevrolet brand…

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN1321972120090713?rpc=44

=D~

By: N Riley

N Riley — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:55:39 +0000

I read Bob Lutz’s statement as him being very luke warm about the whole idea of internet marketing of automobiles. And, I must say, I agree with him. Dealers already have their cars up on their own sites and potential customers can do just about everything there except trade-in their old vehicles. So, just what this new program is going to do except curry some favor with e-Bay lovers and pay e-Bay some extra money, I don’t know. But, I wish them luck with it. Maybe they will turn it into a successful venture.

By: statik

statik — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:18:35 +0000

Good idea…but bad follow through lead to no margins on a decent seller.

Sidenote: NUMMI was the beginning of the end for GM when it started up in the early 80s…GM wanted to ‘learn’ the foreign automakers way to build cars, but what ended up happening is that Toyota learned how to make cars for North America, and that established Toyota’s first foothold on manufacturing/competing in the US.

By: J K Rowling

J K Rowling — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:13:33 +0000

OMG, I thought this yahoo died last year !

By: statik

statik — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:12:09 +0000

I’m always up for the path of least resistance to get what I want. I’m not big on ‘throwing down’ at the car dealership, lol.

I put a value on my time if I’m not doing what I want…ping-ponging all over the place, and spending hours haggling with salesman isn’t what I want to do, so it is a zero sum game looking for ‘deals’ if I waste too much time on it. (imo)