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    FYI: TrueCar Dealership December Newsletter; Splitting TrueCar Open vs. Member Networks, ZAG name (brand) retired, dealership drawings...
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    Dealerships are totally screwed up in this way.  The spend thousands on lead but they seem to lose existing customers by poor treatment...
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    Joe Pistell replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    AT, I get juvenile when I ask you for details on your blog link, you wrote: "...Dealers have been sending their transactional and...
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    Arnold Tijerina replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    Sorry, I was under the impression that you didn't believe that they got data from a lot of sources. They're saying that right there. Oh...
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    Joe Pistell replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    Dear Anti-Dealer Arnold T, A PR from Zag/TrueCar is RESEARCH? That PR is HORSE SHIT.  C'Mon Arnold, read it again.  No where in that...
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    Arnold Tijerina replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    "We get information from dealers and consumer systems; we also buy data from DMS providers. And we’re now seeing it come in from lenders...
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    Eley Duke (blog) replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    Also, what does anyone have now in the way of info on TrueCar and DelerTrack getting in bed together?
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    I said this over on the forums, but will add it here too! I live in one the, if not the best pro-dealership states in the US, VIRGINIA...
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    PS im full of typos. 1. "url from youtube" 2. 2nd video music was too loud. thanks
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    i read through a few of these comments here, but wanted to watch the 1st video listed there. it is labeled private, however i think if...
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    NothingnewJustdifferent replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    We've always paid for 3rd party "advertising" to sell our cars in almost everything we do to attract customers.... Be it paper, TV...
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    Marvmotors (blog) replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    I've been scouring the web looking for the site where, in the interest of transparency and "pricing symmetry," Scott Painter has posted...
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    Matt Bohach (blog) replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    TrueCar claims they want transparency.  What they "truly" want is market dominance for their own profit.  They want to leach themselves...
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    I just read a press release by Scott Painter the CEO of Truecar.com which I pasted below, according to him a customer that pays a dealer...
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    lightnup (blog) replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    Mark, I agree that every dealer needs to require adherence to consistent training, sales, CRM and follow-up processes. Those that don't...
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    Mark Winters replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    Do you not see the real problem here? As Dealers we have become weak and complacent, we write checks to third party vendors in the hopes...
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    Walt Kustra (blog) replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    Its amazing to me how businesses like true car even exist.  They literally leech off of dealers, costing them money, to sell them their...
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    Aj Maida replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    GRASSROOTS Movement. This morning I submitted a lead threw un-Truthful Cars and when the dealers sent me their responses I replied with...
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    Arnold you sure have a lot of time to respond to why you don't have time to make a list of other companies for everyone ...
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    Alex Snyder (blog) replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    "If you're using TrueCar, you're a giveaway artist."  -Jerry Thibeau
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    Joe Pistell replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    If I were a fox and wanted into the chicken coop, I'd build a Trojan Horse and call myself the press. TrueCar has registered as the...
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    Arnold Tijerina replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    NADA considers TrueCar press.  http://www.nadaconventionandexpo.org/nada2012/CUSTOM/Handout/2012Convention_Press_List_2011.pdf
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    Joe Pistell replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    Where is NADA on this? TrueCar has launched a TrojanHorse into it's flock,and it's NADA's job to see the TrueCar-TrainWreck and to...
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    Arnold Tijerina replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    ...or you could look at it like.. the better the deals consumers see, the more cars they buy. The more cars consumers buy, the higher...
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    Joe Pistell replied to the thread TrueCar Scam on Dealerships - Transparency For ALL?.
    Dear "Guess a Lot", Wouldn't any OEM reselling a Dealers financial transaction data to a 3rd party create franchise violations, or at...
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