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What a bunch of wusses your local dealers are! What did they think would happen...Triumph would pay THEM to buy a sign and stock merchandise, and be happy to have more mechanics on board who are ignorant of the bikes' inner workings?
Triumph's requirements for a new dealer are pretty darned modest. If you have an existing business with a good enough credit rating, it only takes about $25,000 of up-front capital to add a Triumph franchise. I wish that's all I needed for the business I'm setting up right now!
If you're not willing to stock a decent range of the company's merchandise, why would they want you as a dealer in the first place? That's been one of the big shortcomings with the early implementation of the dealer network.
Not to say that some of Triumph's regional managers haven't been real *****s sometimes, too, but I say it's about time to get serious about having more dealers wholeheartedly committed to the product line! If a dealer isn't willing to do that, let him turn in his franchise and give somebody else a chance!!!
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John
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