12-16-2021, 01:04 PM
Honda have gone down the same path as Mercedes and adopted the agent model to sell their cars.
Before dealers would buy their cars off head office and then flog them to customers, the dealers owned the cars and it gave them flexibility to set a price and compete with other dealers. Now the Honda and Merc dealers get the cars from head office and sell them for a fixed price and get a set fee from the company. The company own the cars until sold not the dealer so no more haggling for a price with these two companies, no matter where you buy a Honda or Merc in Aus you will pay a set price. They say it benefits the customer knowing they wont be ripped off by a dealer charging more than others. I call BS on that and Honda sales figures have crashed, I can see them pulling out of Aus as they have also culled their range.Meanwhile Toyota have decided to charge customers a subscription for any remote start cars bought after 2018. So if you use the remote start on your key fob for your vehicle and those useless apps that come with it you will be paying $8-10 a month for the privilege.
What a rip off after initially selling the vehicles with that feature and no cost attached, just another way to make money out of customers.
Before dealers would buy their cars off head office and then flog them to customers, the dealers owned the cars and it gave them flexibility to set a price and compete with other dealers. Now the Honda and Merc dealers get the cars from head office and sell them for a fixed price and get a set fee from the company. The company own the cars until sold not the dealer so no more haggling for a price with these two companies, no matter where you buy a Honda or Merc in Aus you will pay a set price. They say it benefits the customer knowing they wont be ripped off by a dealer charging more than others. I call BS on that and Honda sales figures have crashed, I can see them pulling out of Aus as they have also culled their range.Meanwhile Toyota have decided to charge customers a subscription for any remote start cars bought after 2018. So if you use the remote start on your key fob for your vehicle and those useless apps that come with it you will be paying $8-10 a month for the privilege.
What a rip off after initially selling the vehicles with that feature and no cost attached, just another way to make money out of customers.