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What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In many places car manufacturers are not legally allowed to sell their cars directly to customers

I want to hear the excuse they made for this

[–] psion1369 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Back when many of these laws were created, car manufacturers were way worse than franchise dealerships for the consumer.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Everything I've read said it had very little to do with concern for the consumer. As I understand it, car dealerships lobbied for these laws because, according to them, the manufacturers were being anti-competative and squeezing car dealers out of business. So the laws were passed to protect "small" dealers from big car manufacturers, not to protect the consumers.

But now they use that ubiquity to get higher prices through shady tactics. It needs changed again, this time in favor of the consumer.

[–] psion1369 7 points 1 year ago

I forgot, nothing is ever done for the consumer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Because monopoly is the way to solve things :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

A lot of these laws were created very recently. It was a response to Tesla's business model. That was the main argument used this time as well, and it's not wrong.