[FireBeyond]

> If the dealerships don’t markup the vehicles then scalpers will buy at MSRP and resell the vehicles at a markup. As bad as the dealership experience is there is less chance for fraud or theft at a dealership than from a scalper.

Dealerships are absolutely doing this themselves - create a shell company, sell to their own shell company for MSRP, sell back to the dealership at MSRP, now you get to report a compliant sale to the manufacturer, and you have a "used" vehicle on your lot with <100mi that no-one can tell you not to sell for $20K above MSRP.

[czstar]

The fraud/theft I was talking about is seller striping the vehicle of parts and putting in used third party parts and reselling the original parts. Things like that aren’t done at the local Ford dealership. Well, there’s less chance of that. My point is that dealerships are effectively the scaler and it’s better to pay the scalp price at the Ford dealership than from some random person. At least in general.