THE DATA POLICE HAVE ARRIVED
Most recently there has been a bold new wave washing over the automotive dealership landscape. Beginning with TrueCar, whose CEO bragged about using data to eliminate dealerships and lower profits below True Cost. He arrogantly taunted us with claims of "Transparency" which has become the "Buzz Word" of every vendor using our own data to virtually put us out of business, to steal our customers information, and sell it, pass it on to their affiliate companies, and otherwise resell it to third and fourth parties.
WELL, the revolution is here... and we, the dealers, managers, and industry loyalists are committed to locking down the DATA. Remember, cockroaches run when you shine a light on them.
We realize that vendors need access to SOME DATA to be able to perform their services BUT, virtually every vendor taking Data from the dealers- Data that ultimately shows up elsewhere being used against us - every vendor is taking far more Data than necessary and making dealers sign agreements that they can resell it, and pass it to affiliates, and that the VENDOR OWNS your customer data.
So many Dealers have signed contracts that THE VENDOR OWNS YOUR DATA.
THAT IS SO WRONG. By what right does any vendor you are paying have to claim to own your customers? That is total backwards crap and you know it. DEALERS-Your data is your BLUE SKY and you are signing contracts that allow vendors to own your customers and steal your legacy.
These vendors include, DMS Providers, CRM Companies, Lead Providers, Third Party Aggregators... and others, there are even OEMs (Manufacturers) stealing data from service and sales and even finance information on your customers and redistributing it.
The purpose of this BLOG is THE FIRST SHOT in the Data Reclamation Revolution.
We intend to educate Dealers as to what vendors are lifting your DATA... what they're doing with Your Data... Who they're selling it to or passing it along to.
Remember, the dealer is legally and liabilally responsible for the privacy and security of your data, not the vendor that contractually stole it and sold it.
AND we urge Dealers to responsibly call all of these vendors to task... either rewrite your contract or Cancel Them.
It is the purpose of this BLOG to expose those vendors and publish the offending parts of their agreements here. Remember, the vendor that screams loudest is probably the most guilty. JIM
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Comment by Steven Dietz on January 20, 2012 at 5:31pm -
I just looked at a picture of my own 18 year old son. I could not imagine dragging his mistakes into a public forum. Jim threw his own child's mistake out for all to see and does not give the poor kid a chance to defend himself. It is more important to promote Jim and his agenda. Jim: does your son like the fact that you posting his mugshot for 80,000 people to see?
Like I said... What is your motivation?
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Comment by James A. Ziegler on January 20, 2012 at 5:28pm
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Forgive me folks, I intend to keep moving this up the page until everyone has seen it...
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Comment by Steven Dietz on January 20, 2012 at 5:22pm
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I just looked at a picture of my own 18 year old son. I could not imagine dragging his mistakes into a public forum. Jim threw his own child's mistake out for all to see and does not give the poor kid a chance to defend himself. It is more important to promote Jim and his agenda. Jim: does your son like the fact that you posting his mugshot for 80,000 people to see?
Like I said... What is your motivation?
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Comment by Steven Dietz on January 20, 2012 at 5:21pm
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I would not post this publicly and made this clear in my email to you. I simply think your personal attacks on me and GRP are inappropriate and pointed out that while I disagree with you, I have not said anything about you personally on this forum.
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No Steven, It's not a secret, but in your low life way you thought it was worthy of blackmailing me using my family. Well now , everyone you know is going to know what a load you really are.
You see, I have told others many times my son was caught drag racing lost his license and was later arrested for driving without a license. I love my son and that has been out in the open for a long time. Anyone who wanted to know was told. BUT YOU thought in your grimy arrogant way you had a piece of blackmail to hold over me about my family. Now I've turned it on you and exposed you to the light of day... and cockroaches always run when you shine a light on them.
You haven't phased me in the least with all your babbling BUT we all sense you and your friends are UNRaveling rapidly. I will not respond to you again on any of these threads. BUT I prokmse you'll be hearing about this at your country club, and they're not going to like it.
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Comment by Thomas A. Kelly on January 20, 2012 at 5:02pm
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Steven Dietz of GRP Partners, the financial Backers of TrueCar is <insert the most disgusting creature you can think of here>
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Comment by David T. Gould on January 20, 2012 at 4:56pm
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Steven Dietz of GRP Partners, the financial Backers of TrueCar is out of control.
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HOLY CRAP JIM!
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No David, no big secret. My son doesn't drink or do much of anything wrong. He's a drag racer. Lost his license and got caught driving end of story. I'd rather make it public than let the TrueCar Goon GRP Partners Goon Squad think they are blackmailing me with it.
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Comment by John Weltz on January 20, 2012 at 4:37pm
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Wow...that is wild. What is next??? Let's sick the Big Dawg on 'em!
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