Comments on: Tesla’s company-owned stores create controversy http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/teslas-company-owned-stores-create-controversy/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Tue, 21 May 2013 12:46:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jack Burgess http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/teslas-company-owned-stores-create-controversy/#comment-469397 Jack Burgess Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:55:39 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=381846#comment-469397 These laws are antiquated, protectionist, and now only serve as an arbitrary barrier to protect a special interest group — the automobile dealers. Created prior to any Internet commerce, the laws no longer make sense in today’s modern markets. They were originally enacted to foster competition. But over time as our modes of commerce have changed, these laws have come to do just the opposite. If we allow them to stay in place, they will continue to stifle true competition, thus harming market efficiencies and the productivity of the automobile industry as a whole. Today, we consumers end up paying a little bit more for our cars due to this now unwarranted protectionism. These laws should have been changed years ago.

]]> By: Aerobat http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/teslas-company-owned-stores-create-controversy/#comment-468956 Aerobat Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:58:06 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=381846#comment-468956 At this point a dealer network is unnecessary infrastructure and an additional link in the supply chain that adds no value. Placing an unnecessary middleman in the supply chain only adds markup and costs to the Tesla consumer.

Additionally, “traditional” car dealers can not and “will not” sell the Tesla products because they make their profit from a completely different selling model. So, should Tesla have to establish a whole new distribution channel because no traditional dealer can uphold the company’s values and vision???

Even the traditional car manufacturers are seeing the publics distrust and lack of confidence in the traditional “Auto Dealer Distribution Channels”. Why else do places like COSTCO manage to sell cars.

I can tell you that the least pleasant and most emotionally draining part of an automobile purchase is having to go into the dealer and be subjected to their abuse … while they hold you hostage for 2 hours because you gave them your keys to evaluate your trade.

I can’t blame Tesla for wanting to keep it’s customers away from those predators who add very little value.

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