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To: Last Dakotan

As someone who has sold to GM and Chrysler, I can certainly understand why. The auto makers like their suppliers to cut the price for the same product every year, sometimes 10-20 percent a year for each year of an agreement. Yet, their finished products cost more every year.


2 posted on 05/31/2005 7:50:59 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

All the auto manufacturers do it. The trick is to not let them become your sole source of income.


7 posted on 05/31/2005 7:56:09 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I have often wondered why GM has always reserved the stick for their suppliers, never for the UAW?


11 posted on 05/31/2005 8:00:27 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: Eric in the Ozarks; Redbob



Between this and the outsourcing, GM deserves anything they get.


16 posted on 05/31/2005 8:10:17 AM PDT by tiamat (Can't sleep...clowns will get me..can't sleep...clowns will get me...can't sleep....clowns will get)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Yet, their finished products cost more every year.

The union payoffs have to come from somewhere. :-)

34 posted on 05/31/2005 8:41:20 AM PDT by TChris (Liberals: All death, all the time.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
I supposwe that GM is not aware that getting a new supplier each year is obvious to the car purchaser?

I bought my last American-made car in 1962.

A repeat does not look promising...
All things being equal I prefer to buy American.
But not at the price of being a fool.

41 posted on 05/31/2005 11:25:18 AM PDT by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen, ignorance and stupidity.)
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