Trev, I think you misunderstood.... It is the
other dealers that are price matching our affiliated dealer. Brett and I are merely asking that if HH give you a price that another dealer has to go back and price match on; that you support HH buy buying from them. Getting prices together takes time and if members are just phoning them up to get a base price to haggle with another random dealer then all it is doing is wasting HH's time and will make them less likely to help in the future. Doesn't really have much to do with Ta giving members respect.
HH give the member the best price. the other dealer was happy to charge full whack until it thought it would loose the sale.
Example.
Mr Smith phones HH. Asks for price for a few bits an bobs as a member. HH spend the next half an hour checking prices and seeing what can be done for a TA member.
Mr Smith gets prices.
Mr Smith calls dealer B and asks for prices (try mentionig TA first :lol
. Prices are more than HH's. Dealer says HH will do it for £XX.XX
Dealer B changes prices.
HH spent half an hour getting Mr Smith a deal and didn't get the sale. Other dealer was happy to get more out of Mr Smith up to the point he was going to go back to HH.
We have a lot of members, and most are not
regular contributors, they have the ability to phone through without mentioning it here (so we do not know how often it happens).
Please, I was not trying to start a hot debate over this, merely that members consider the fact that HH is a business in its own right, and it is not fair that TA's relationship with them is used to benefit another dealer that A) does not recognise TA as an entity, and B) didn't give Mr Smith a good deal in the first place.
