38-year Central Florida Jeep dealer loses franchise

[joyce a]

AmericanVet wrote:

<quoted text>Mom and pop stores were able to run very well and enable a successful profitable business. GREED did not always enter into the picture. Some people do know what eneough is.

I agree with you - doing a good job and serving customers isn't important anymore. Shutting down these franchises will give Chrysler a big boost on Wall Street (for their stock prices). People will trade stock & make plenty of money & be happy. In the long term, this makes no sense - but who cares about the future?

But I blame stockholders.(Even those whose pension plans invest in them).

[Dudley Do Right]

Through underhanded, double-talking, outright lying behavior backed and sanctioned by our "new government", these people are having their long-time, family built, successful businesses STOLEN from them and given to somebody else for nothing. Isn't there something in the Constitution that covers being deprived of your posessions without due process? These dealers who are losing their businesses are crying foul, asking why, asking how come their hard earned success is being handed to somebody else and the MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS IGNORING THEM AS IS THE PRESIDENT, CONGRESS the so-called panel from the auto industry that has made these arbitrary decisions. Who and what is next, folks? We need to get the facts and use our voices and our votes wisely!

[Dudley Do Right]

joyce a wrote:

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I agree with you - doing a good job and serving customers isn't important anymore. Shutting down these franchises will give Chrysler a big boost on Wall Street (for their stock prices). People will trade stock & make plenty of money & be happy. In the long term, this makes no sense - but who cares about the future?
But I blame stockholders.(Even those whose pension plans invest in them).

The stockholders also lost in this. These were successful businesses, many of them supporting entire communities, not unlike the community you probably live in. Give up this blanket hatred of success and realize the truth - none of us has ever gotten a paycheck from a poor guy and it is the successful, the entreprenours, the big employers who keep this country going! I guess when we are all standing in line for a potato, a stale roll and a cup of canned milk, many will wake up and say, gee, we should have done something about it before.....

[Anon]

Some think Chrysler made "junk". Others will say the same of GM and Ford. And the same can be said of the "imports" as well. Many don't want to say their "import" is a piece of "junk" because others will make fun of them. But they would have no problem saying that about Chrysler, GM or Ford. For everyone who complains about a particular dealer you will find somebody that compliments the dealer.
The issue here is taking of property with no compensation. In many cases outright violation of the law.

[darwin]

Hmmm... I wonder how many of the employees there voted for Obama. Now there's change you can believe in. Now you all be good little citizens and go sign up for your unemployment checks... don't worry, Obama is going to make sure all your needs are met.

[darwin]

"a good condition Javelin is worth as much as $345,000 today"

That is ONLY because there are none left. They all went to the scrap yard. Simple supply/demand at work.

My dad bought Suburbans starting in the early 70's...and he's never changed. But I can tell you this, the early ones rusted real fast... really crap.

[darwin]

oh... and lastly, i really could care less about any of the car dealers -- they've been treating us like crap for decades. What comes around goes around. Enjoy your fate.

[joyce a]

darwin wrote:

"a good condition Javelin is worth as much as $345,000 today"
That is ONLY because there are none left. They all went to the scrap yard. Simple supply/demand at work.
My dad bought Suburbans starting in the early 70's...and he's never changed. But I can tell you this, the early ones rusted real fast... really crap.

you stole my line - I don't know if I ever saw a good conditions AMC Javelin - even when they were brand new.

[joyce a]

Dudley Do Right wrote:

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The stockholders also lost in this. These were successful businesses, many of them supporting entire communities, not unlike the community you probably live in. Give up this blanket hatred of success and realize the truth - none of us has ever gotten a paycheck from a poor guy and it is the successful, the entreprenours, the big employers who keep this country going! I guess when we are all standing in line for a potato, a stale roll and a cup of canned milk, many will wake up and say, gee, we should have done something about it before.....

yes- stockholders lost. But they had lots of control. All the big employers, etc relied on Market Value of the stock (stock options & such?). If stockholders rewarded them when 5000 were laid off or 100 stores were closed, the big-wigs continued to bring companies to decline. Everything in the head office was geared to Wall Street. And stockholders got their quick profits & smiled.

[Bob B]

Been buying Toyotas since 1984 and have not looked back!!

[Reego]

We were told Amtrax was going to be just temporary, look how well that went. As long as GM can be used for political gains, for either party, the taxpayers will continue to subsidize,mark my words.

[AmericanVet]

darwin wrote:

"a good condition Javelin is worth as much as $345,000 today"
That is ONLY because there are none left. They all went to the scrap yard. Simple supply/demand at work.
My dad bought Suburbans starting in the early 70's...and he's never changed. But I can tell you this, the early ones rusted real fast... really crap.

When was a Javelin ever in good condition?

[Paul Bunyan]

Bob B wrote:

Been buying Toyotas since 1984 and have not looked back!!

I have a Mazda pickup, a Honda Civic, a Nissan Sentra and a Kawasaki motorcycle. All that these vehicles require is gasoline and an occasional oil and filter change.

I guess I could trade them all for American brands, but if I had wanted to run a junk yard, I would have started years ago.

[Liberals hate FACTS]

Chester DeGrasse wrote:

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This is basically what I have said about you.. try to be original, ok pal?

I'll be original if you'll try and be intelligent, articulate, and RIGHT...on ONE topic....

God it's gotta suck to go through life being as stupid as you appear to be.

[Liberals hate FACTS]

What wrote:

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I pretty much figured a moron like you would have a bunch of cars on blocks in the front of their trailer using them for parts.
Only a total idiot would keep buying the same car times FOUR if they thought the first was a piece of crap. But then again, only an idiot would have supported another idiot (Bush) and would continue to support proven failed policies and politics. The inability to learn from your mistakes is proof that you are a moron. Moron. Go mow your grass, you might find another blocked up car you forgot about.

Thank you for showing just how ignorant and rude most liberals are.

Now...don't you have to be somewhere to flip burgers sport?

[Liberals hate FACTS]

6 Actual wrote:

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You are talking out of an orfice where the sun don't shine.
Toyota has an automatic behind their V-8, and it's a sealed unit. Thats right, sealed, no dipstick, something GM, Ford and Chrysler are not able to build. My Ford F-250 is on it's third transmission, and the thing is mostly made in Mexico. CD player broke after about 10 CD's went through it. My F-150 el cheapo V-6 is still moving along. Both fords are at about 150,000 miles. Point being, most American stuff is now junk. Best scenario now is that the public will quit buying union made stuff and just outright subsidize the UAW. We'll be paying them anyhow, why waste the resources to make those wheeled coffins.

It's called 'proper maintenance'.
Learn the concept.

Wow.
Amazing how stupid some people are.

I ALWAYS have positive results with my vehicles....ALWAYS...
And NEVER have maintenance related issues.

Always seems that it's some dumbarss who doesn't want to get his hands dirty, who is having his vehicle towed to the dealership to be repaired.

[Liberals hate FACTS]

BugSpray wrote:

<quoted text>Nice tin-foil hat!

Put your nose back in the corner and that pointed had back on dunce.

[Liberals hate FACTS]

joyce a wrote:

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so Chrysler wouldn't have financial problems if Obama wasn't in office? and he did this in only 5 months?

No.
America wouldnt have the catastrophic financial problems that we're going to have now if Obama would have kept his damn mouth shut, minded his own business, and let the natural course of the free market run it's course!

Leave it up to a bunch of stupid liberals with NO BUSINESS EXPERIENCE to try and FORCE things to 'work' by throwing my taxdollars at them!

You people are the biggest bunch of stupid morons on the planet.

And as you watch unemployment EXPLODE, and inflation begin to spiral upwards, and foreclosures continue, and businesses shut down, and NOTHING POSITIVE GET ACCOMPLISHED....just shut the hell up and accept the "change" you asked for.

[Liberals hate FACTS]

Oh...
Made up?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blo...
http://www.wnd.com/index.php...

[patti]

I'm not sorry they closed...they didn't want to hire older female sales professionals, they wanted guys who would all hang at Rachel's next door after work with them.(Rachel's is a "World Class Men's Club" or such is the moniker attached to a sleazy place full of gyrating skanks hanging off of poles. I laugh each time I drive by that location...wonder if they have money for all that G-string stuffin' now?