# Cash for Clunkers question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cash-for-clunkers-question/504494>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 27, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cash-for-clunkers-question/504494 "2009-07-27T23:21:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cash-for-clunkers-question/504494/41 "2009-07-31T19:29:26Z")

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How can a dealer survive with \< 100 sales per year? They must have sold other brands as well as Chrysler or else they had some other stuff to make money on such as repairs.

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**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cash-for-clunkers-question/504494/42 "2009-07-31T19:40:39Z")

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> [@samclem](#):
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> This thread has veered off course enough that I’ll move it, for now, to IMHO. I’m not sure it rises to GD level yet.
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> I’ll close with a comment: It’s too bad that many posters can’t seem to be bothered with trying to answer the question posed by the OP.

It seemed to me that the OP’s question was answered in the very first reply. The OP seemed to have accepted that answer, and asked an opinion-type question, rhetoricly, in post #5.  
Am I wrong?

> [@samclem](#):
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> All they appear to do is derail the thread with political comments/jabs and then the other sharks are attracted by the blood.
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> **samclem** Moderator, General Questions

Can’t argue with that, though.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cash-for-clunkers-question/504494/43 "2009-07-31T19:47:14Z")

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I _like_ my clunkers!

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