Rivals took the easier road and simply traded theirs in to dealers for new models.
Usually, just 5 of every 1, 000 are tested, and the rest sent to dealers.
It resells them--after sprucing up some of them--to dealers, distributors and carriers, and recycles the hopeless cases.
Are BMW counting deliveries to dealers, as the official statistics do, or are they counting true sales?
Watchdogs are also expected to establish data repositories, which will give them unfettered access to dealers' trades.
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That sure beats having GMAC borrow money itself for lending to dealers--two-year GMAC paper is yielding 7.5% to maturity.
Even attempts to privately blackball him had scant effect, since he could always sell to dealers and auctioneers through intermediaries.
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Even if cars suffer minor damage, they sometimes can no longer be sold as new, lowering their value to dealers.
When his father got into the business, eggs came from small farmers, who gathered them up and sold them to dealers.
As a result, Chrysler posts District Managers in rooms as telemarketing agents wholesaling the extra cars to dealers for weeks on end.
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Eighteen men have been jailed for their parts in an organised crime group which supplied class A drugs to dealers across Lincolnshire.
To dealers' dismay some collectors are by-passing galleries and racing to studios at Yale and the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.
The balance sheet problems cascaded through the company and down to dealers.
The company hit a recent road bump, when it's second quarter earnings slipped 9% from a year earlier as shipments to dealers slowed.
Chrysler reported 100, 077 in sales, marked by Jeep Grand Cherokee sales, which were up 98% over last month, due to increased shipments to dealers.
In January, deliveries to dealers in China tumbled a stunning 41.9%.
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London Stock Exchange confirmed it had a fault in its electronic feed that sends the prices to dealers, but it has given no further explanation.
In March the authorities decreed that companies must register their catalogues with local bodies known as industry and commerce bureaus before distributing them to dealers.
Similarly, manufacturers offer bonuses to dealers for hitting monthly targets, and dealers in turn pass some of that money over to salespeople when they hit targets.
The cost of a legal defence could be passed on to dealers and consumers and, if too many cities file similar suits, the industry could shut down altogether.
Mini engineers at the plant in Cowley will fix the 500 models already delivered to customers and modify the others which are yet to be sent out to dealers.
Talking to dealers of old watches, he heard about the tourbillon--a rotating mechanism created by Breguet in 1795 to compensate for the effects of gravity on hanging pocket watches.
Typically favored by luxury automakers, the latter are cash allowances given to dealers to lower the prices on select models without seeming to cheapen the brand by offering cash rebates.
Often favored by luxury automakers, the latter are cash allowances given to dealers to lower the prices on select models without seeming to cheapen the brand by offering cash rebates.
In an interview with trade publication Computer Reseller News last week, Dell Chief Executive MichaelDellMichael Dell detailed his plans to strengthen his company's ties to dealers who sell computers to businesses.
Of course, they could fix this problem once and for all if they would ante up some cash incentives to dealers, the way they've handed out billions in buyouts to unionized workers.
Sales to authorized dealers are expected to resume on or about the week of Jan. 28 after the U.S. Mint has replenished its inventory, it said in an email to authorized dealers.
Some 34, 000 jobs in the city are connected to the diamond trade, according to the Antwerp World Diamond Centre, from mining company representatives to dealers to the craftsmen who polish the stones.
According to dealers, the company supplies initially only about 60% of the Goodyear and Dunlop branded tires a store orders, leaving dealers to push another brand even if a consumer wants a Goodyear.
Mr Crandall notes that in the past year the share of Treasury debt bought at auctions by big investors and foreign central banks (as opposed to dealers) has roughly doubled to around 60%.
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