Jim Ziegler Helping Edmunds Get Their Message Out There

AS A DECENT HUMAN BEING AND A PROFESSIONAL IN THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY, I THOUGHT I WOULD TAKE A MOMENT TO EXPRESS MY PERSONAL OPINIONS OF EDMUNDS.COM AND THE THINGS THEY CHOOSE TO PUBLISH ABOUT OUR INDUSTRY.

For Many Years Now Our Friends at Edmunds.com have gone out of their way to publish a series of articles on their consumer website to inform Consumers that Car Dealerships are Scum of the Earth Crooks and that We Are Criminals. At Least, That's How I Perceive it From What They've Published About Us. What Do You Think? I Might Be Wrong?

Personally, I Think These Articles are Fabrication and Exaggeration furthering Stereotypes and Designed to Make Consumers Distrust Car Dealers.

Personally, I don't know a Car Dealership that "Bugs" the offices like Edmunds Editor claims we do, and nobody deliberately abuses consumers the way they describe in such inflammatory exaggerated adjectives.

Their website contains numerous articles that are allegedly confessions of a Car Salesman.... Confessions of an F&I Manager.... Confessions of a ( Sleazy) Service Department... and So On.

All of these Articles Supposedly Reveal How Car Dealers Cheat Consumers and Commit Fraud. You Can find These Great Edmunds Articles Which They Continually Maximize for Top Placement in the Search Engines to be Sure the Consumers Read These Slurs About Us... About You ... and About Car People in General. They Are Positioned to be Sure They Are read During the Shopping Process. .... Here's the Link http://www.edmunds.com/confessions.html

.... Check it Out and Be Sure To Let Edmunds Know How Much We Appreciate Them Helping Our Reputation and Selling Their Services With Fear Tactics at Our expense.

Be Sure to Watch the Video Below Too....

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Comment by James A. Ziegler on July 30, 2015 at 7:29am: No Brian; Nobody is advocating that we organize or put together any kind of group action, but rather; I think we should appeal to Edmunds sense of fairness and decency to remove all of the offending articles and everything they do to undermine and disparage car dealers and slander our name. If anyone were to cancel their services, that would be an individual dealership acting on their own without any group or organized pressure. We do not and will not do that. This article is only to educate dealerships that we are under attack from these people.

Personally, I find that everything Edmunds does is offensive. Their Price Promise Program is Offensive. They use every means to create distrust in the consumer and then present themselves as the savior. They even go so far as to put up security measures so the consumer can remain anonymous from the evil car dealer... in other words they own the customer. Personally, I despise Edmunds. I believe them to be the worst lowlifes in their arena. Of course that's just me, everyone needs to make up your own minds and select your own courses of action or inaction.

AND, I would certainly be suspicious and wary of allowing these people into my DMS Database. In my opinion, that would be crazy to allow people who abuse us with customers to have access to our customers information and identities? I am NOT an idiot. I would also never accept FREE Texting in my service department which would ultimately give Edmunds a wealth of information about us, our pricing and our customer's contact information they could effectively take and use to create a wedge between us and the customers as they have demonstrated repeatedly is their goal.

JIM

Comment by Brian Bennington on July 30, 2015 at 6:28am: Holy cow Alpha Dawg! This is serious! I say "let's lynch 'em." Anybody got any lynch?