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General Motors Look For New Ways To Sell Cars
Earlier this year General Motors, owner of Chevrolet, files for bankruptcy. However, they have sold off some of their companies and managed to turn themselves around, and now as of July this year, they have stopped receiving protection from the US government.
Now that they have moved on, they are trying some new methods for being in more car sales. The company are looking into a series of new methods to sell their vehicles. The first method, which they had tried and pulled out of in 2008, is car leasing. General Motors are currently planning to return to the contract hire market this month. General Motors might be able to offer very cheap van leasing offers because they can take the cars straight from the production line, being able to undercut much of their competition.
The other method is that they are teaming up with the online auction site eBay. Starting from August 11th, General Motors began listing, within the California area, new Chevrolet, Pontiac, GMC and Buick cars on the auction website.
The plan is to run the system on a trial basis until September, however, it's already proved popular with over 225 out of 250 of their Californian dealers signing up. Customers using the system will be allowed to either pay the listed price for the car, or they are allowed to haggle for a new price. Once the customer buys the car, they then have to travel to their closest registered dealer to pick up their new vehicle.
If General Motors and eBay find the system to be profitable, they might introduce it to every state in America. Also if other companies see the methods being successful, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw other manufacturers offering car leases such as a Mazda lease.
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