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Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of Beggs on the Used Car Market. This will be a short week in the market due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Hopefully in addition to the Black Friday crowds and sales at the big box retailers and electronics s

Service appointment coordinator charged with embezzling from AZ dealership, from Dealers Edge. It is a routine transaction in all car dealerships. Service customers pay their bills with a credit card and the store gets the credit. But sometimes, and

A Ford Quick Lane sized for Texas, from Automotive News. On a clear day, you can see Pep Boys, Jiffy Lube and Firestone service shops from Planet Ford-Lincoln in Spring, Texas. With all that nearby competition, why are dealer Randall Reed and his par

4 Trusty Facebook Ads Strategies to Grow Your Page and Your Sales, from Kruse Control Inc.. By now, you’ve probably heard about Facebook ads. What you may not have heard about is how valuable they’ve become. Facebook has continuously improved the

The majority of customers want to test drive before they purchase. This means the test drive is a pivotal visit, especially as the average number of customer visits to dealers prior to purchasing a vehicle has dropped from five to only one in some ar

A Million Reasons to Behave, from Dealer Business Journal. Some “counts” (“causes of action,” in lawyer-speak) in a lawsuit permit a plaintiff to recover only so-called “actual damages,” or the amount that the plaintiff can demonstrate sh

What Comes First: The Sale or the Financing?, from Dealer Business Journal. There are a lot of mysteries in life. What happened to the lost city of Atlantis? Does Bigfoot really exist? Who shot JFK? For car dealers, unlocking the secret to sales and

CFPB Needs a New ‘Tool,’ Study Finds, from F&I Magazine. Almost a year after making the pledge, the American Financial Services Association (AFSA) delivered this week a study that addressed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

3 Features of New NARS Website, from Auto Remarketing. The North American Repossessors Summit (NARS), an industry event hosted by the American Recovery Association (ARA), unveiled its recently redesigned website. The site, which is now live, features