{"id":1174,"date":"2017-09-14T11:08:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reformingretail.com\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2019-01-23T08:38:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T14:38:51","slug":"exclusive-dealer-territories-are-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/14\/exclusive-dealer-territories-are-ridiculous\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive Dealer Territories Are Ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of US states have outlawed the direct sales of automobiles. Instead, franchise laws dictate that cars can only be purchased through independent dealerships. This is in spite of analyst research that estimates a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/charles-lane-tesla-takes-on-car-dealerships-in-a-fight-to-the-death\/2014\/03\/12\/2956a9f2-a9ff-11e3-8599-ce7295b6851c_story.html?utm_term=.f38afe97b734\"> direct to consumer model would save consumers 8%<\/a>. Even the Federal Trade Commission is suspect of automotive dealer lobbies:<\/p><blockquote><p>A fundamental principle of competition is that consumers \u2013 not regulation \u2013 should determine what they buy and how they buy it. Consumers may benefit from the ability to buy cars directly from manufacturers \u2013 whether they are shopping for luxury cars or economy vehicles. The same competition principles should apply in either case.<\/p><\/blockquote><div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/log-in\/\">log in<\/a> to read the rest of this content.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of US states have outlawed the direct sales of automobiles. Instead, franchise laws dictate that cars can only be purchased through independent dealerships. This is in spite of analyst research that estimates a direct to consumer model would save consumers 8%. Even the Federal Trade Commission is suspect of automotive dealer lobbies:A fundamental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81nA2-iW","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reformingretail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/a1-2.jpg?fit=450%2C450&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4154,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/4154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}