The new GM is set to change it ways and get it off on the right foot by focusing some of its efforts on the cash rich empire known as California. GM has partnered with eBay to allow Californians to bid for new cars online and forgo the hassle of heading to the dealership and test driving a car before purchasing it. But CEO Fritz Henderson knows this is a bit of a long shot and is going to wait and see what happens before going full-throttle with this creative nugget.
“Experiments are experiments … You don’t roll them out until you figure out if they work. We are excited about it, but I wouldn’t commit to rolling it out more broadly until we find out if it’s successful.”
A couple tweaks to Paypal to process IOUs and GM will be right back on its normal course.
GM tests new sales pitch on eBay [Reuters]
When Detroit can match price to value, the price of their vehicles will be $8,500.00. At thaat point they’ll come out of the hole.
I have a friend who works for Ford and when he travels he won’t tell anyone he meets (outside of customers) in a bar or on an airplane that he works for Ford because of the complaints he’ll get.
Haha #1 has a friend that works for Ford.
Does anyone know a good plastic surgeon specializing in radical facial corrective surgery?
- Greg’s Twin Brother
Fourth! Haha – beat that!!
BOOM goes the BLANUS!
Detroit puts “Rolls Knardley” engines in their vehicles. Rolls down hills and “kanrdley” get up the other side.
Sincerely,
@2
@4 – I can’t.
-Greg
And Amazon, of course, will promptly sue them for patent violation.
Brilliant.
I bet GM’s dealers are going to love that. Way to continue selling the price/rebate and etcetera as opposed to actually selling the product. As strategies go, this sounds like a winner.
I’ll happily bid $10.00CAD for a 1974 Chevy Vega. Oh, you meant “New GM” car? Well, you’ve have to be a dumbass to bid on one of those.
this was greg’s best post yet.
i did hear, however, that he cries when he masturbates.
Who wants to buy a car made by the U.S. Government?! Anyone too young to know the magnitude of the effing disaster that is a state-owned automaker should look up “British Leyland” on Wikipedia.
Better yet, watch the British Leyland episode on Top Gear (BBC). Hilarious. The best hour of television on the planet.
I can’t believe these morons are actually going to try this.
Went to get my GM A/C repaired last week. Four days later they called me at my office said it was fixed and I could pick it up. I paid for the service $250, picked it up and drove it down the road with only hot air blowing out of the A/C. I turned around and was told that it must have had a leak and lost all the freon. WTF!!! That’s why I brought it in…. I don’t think that US Govt. could make shit any shittier than the GM/FORD/CHRYSLER management already has…..