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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • I was really tempted to continue playing along here but then I thought you may just be Autistic and unable to follow….

    You appear to be a little aggressive with your messages, normal people don’t communicate in such a confrontational way. Just take a step back, take a deep breath, and try to have civil disagreements with people.

    We’re all just here to read some stuff, learn some stuff and try to ignore our real lives for a bit… let’s try and have fun while we’re here.







  • Service plans for EVs are less than half the price of ICE equivalents. Half the price means probably half the commission.

    Even at half the price they still offer very poor value for money, simply because EV’s don’t need as much maintenance.

    Why would you think they could just jack the price up to keep their sales people happy?

    My whole point here is that dealerships are going severely downhill as EVs are shifting their business model to the point where they don’t even want to help EV customers, so the customer has to do all the work of researching the right car and options, and finding it themselves.


  • Service plans are too cheap for EVs so really low commission, plus people know they don’t need any real servicing, it’s a major selling point.

    If people didn’t make good decisions they’d let the salesperson talk them into a nice commission rich hybrid.

    The guy who told me about Hydrogen cars taking over soon sold my dad his car 25 years earlier, so a career salesman.

    I’m calling ahead and telling them the car I’m coming to see and the price I want to pay, if it’s not there or the price changes I’m never coming back.




  • Ah well that is one of the reasons why big oil has invested so much in hydrogen, the way hydrogen is made right now is by refining it from natural gas using massive amounts of electricity which oil companies can generate for themselves. This hydrogen is then sold along with the same 0.1% of hydrogen which is electrolysed from water using solar and wind power and greenwashes the remaining 99.9% masking the fact you would have been better off just refining crude oil into diesel, or burning puppies and kittens in a steam engine.