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From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Escort options (Dealer Radios)
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Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 10:27:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 29 10:27:08 1985
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> If you can convince the dealer to install the
> stereo of your choice in the car as part of the condition of sale, you
> might be better off.  They probably can do a better job of getting it
> in the dash anyway.

An anecdote in response to this.  Several years ago, a friend bought a
new car.  After some hard-core shopping, she found the car, a Datsun
510, that she wanted.  However, it lacked two items on her must-have list,
a radio and tinted windows all around (this was Arizona, where the sun
shines bright).  The dealer, of course, offered to install both, and
quoted big prices.  The dealer warned her that installing a radio in
a Datsun is difficult, and the first stereo place confirmed this, turning
down the job.  The second stereo dealer happily quoted her half of the
dealer's price;  when asked "do you realize this Datsun is hard to install in?"
they replied that they knew perfectly well, because they did all the
installations for the Datsun dealer.  Thus informed, she asked the glass shop
that tinted her windows, also for half the dealer price, and they admitted
doing a lot of work for the dealer, too.

Ever since the bottom fell out of the snake-oil business, those salesmen
have been selling cars.
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Jon Mauney    mcnc!ncsu!mauney    C.S. Dept, North Carolina State University