The best thing you can say about the current employee discount craze — spawned by GM's marketing sages — is that it brings people to the dealerships' door, increases short-term market share, and helps unload slow-moving models from the full-to-bursting inventorium. On the fat-kid end of the see-saw are, however, the worst things you can say, which include such spectres as cascading margins (now measured in nanodollars), reducing profits, and pulling sales forward just before a promised onslaught of hot product can even begin. And yet, according to Robert Farago, we haven't even seen the tipping point yet.
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