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Firstlook Agreement - Edmunds & JD Powers sure want a lot of info!
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Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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Holy fucking A' - this shit gets deeper and deeper and deeper. These companies are going to create a new dealership employee: Contract Lawyer.
Jeff, is TrueCar anywhere in the contract or that CapitalOne has the right to share your data outside of their use with affiliated partners? If not, I would be burning up their phone. I would burn that reps phone up anyway!
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Dealers express serious concerns about the vast amount of sales data that vendors like Edmunds, JD Power, and TrueCar demand access to through their service agreements—including financed amounts, dealer costs, and invoice prices—questioning whether these companies adequately compensate dealerships for this valuable information. The discussion highlights how dealers have inadvertently armed competitors and customers with detailed pricing intelligence by sharing transaction data, with participants arguing that dealers should tightly control what data they share and demand transparency about how vendors use it. The overarching insight is that dealerships have surrendered significant leverage by freely providing vendor partners access to proprietary business data, and should reclaim control by being selective about data sharing and scrutinizing vendor agreements more carefully.
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