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If you are pricing cars, it is time consuming.  I could have that inventory re-priced the first working day of the month.


Honda doesn't have rebates so why would you post a car below invoice?


Let's look at the "get your eprice" guys.  I shopped my competitors, every month.  I got prices of net.net and below.  If I have the lowest price on Cars.com and Autotrader, I don't get into a bidding war. 

Front gross is just one way to make money.  I had a team of 9 ISMs.  We sold 70% of the cars and our average total gross beat the floor guys.


Matt, I have over 30 years in the car business and have held every position in the front of a store from a salesman to the General Manager.  Yes, my passion is the internet but are you going to tell me I'm not a "car guy"?


In the internet age, average gross profit is no longer how you measure success.  Today, our main consideration has to be departmental net profit.