importing question

[Andrew Buc]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:52:00 -0400, dawson-md wrote:

>New car
>buyers have to wait 12 - 15 months for delivery once their order, with
>substantial deposit,  is placed. As expected this created a brisk market for
>"selling one's place in line" and cars were being re-sold at a huge mark-up
>upon delivery to the original buyer.

Sounds like what used to happen w/new cars in the former Soviet
bloc--and the waiting periods were much longer, and those were cruddy
cars!