They are also attempting to keep the car buyer as a long-term customer by offering after-sales service.

他们也正在努力，通过售后服务使这位汽车买家成为他们的长期客户。

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Extensive research has shown that the effects of short-term price promotions on sales are themselves short-term.

广泛的研究表明，短期价格促销对销售本身的影响是短期的。

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However, in the wrong circumstances fair-value accounting could also induce wasteful sales—of long-term, illiquid loans.

但是，在错误的情况下公允价值可能引起不经济的卖出长期非流动贷款。

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Unfortunately, Best Buy leadership confused short-term sales re-allocation with long-term trends.

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Tsuga is placing big hopes on the home building materials and white goods sales in the near term and auto industry sales further out.

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On a brighter note, sales of Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband technology equipment continued gains while revenue from overseas sales of notebook PCs improved.

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