Amazing that they would embark on such an effort without first talking to Nissan.
Sent from AltaMail From: Rick Beebe via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <ev@lists.evdl.org> Subject: Re: [EVDL] Nissan.ca sez 'No' To Leaf-Group-Buy> ticking-off 3700+ EV buyers = a lose-lose Date: 8/29/16, 6:27 PM One has to wonder if the people setting up the group buy pulled that target price out of their ass. I can sympathize with Nissan if that price is below wholesale or worse. Are you really losing "sales" if you would have to actually pay the people to take the cars? I would tout how much money I saved the company by not giving away the cars at a loss. And I doubt Tesla will want to tender a group buy for $20k per car when they've got 400,000 to sell at full list price first. --Rick On 8/29/2016 6:12 AM, brucedp5 via EV wrote: > In the first week of August, a group of EV lovers in Montreal, Canada set up > a group-buy effort for the Nissan LEAF. About 2,500 people initially signed > up for the group-buy deal and the number of interested buyers had climbed up > to 3,700 by the time their proposal reached the Nissan’s corporate HQ in > Canada. The main idea of the group buy was to use the strength of numbers > (almost 4000 orders) as a leverage to get massive discount on the sticker > price of the car. > > The Nissan LEAF has a sticker price of $31,998 (CAD) for the S Trim. The > members in the group-buy deal were hoping that they could get Nissan to sell > the car at a $20,000 CAD each. However, in an “understandable” turn of > events, Nissan Canada’s president has rejected the group buy offer and > effectively shut down the plan. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160829/e6b10572/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
