Re: Consumer Reports on Oil (kinda long) (fwd)

[drobbins@net2net.com (David Robbins)]

At 06:20 AM 7/17/96 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Ah! Thanks for the clarification, I was scratching my head on that one. The 
>dealer wanted us to pick up the car before the end of his quarter on...May 1.

Exactly, I think the cut-off (according to the service rep at my dealer was
May 3.  If you took delivery after this, you didn't get a 1000 check under
the Audi Advantage program.
>
>By the way, we were told that the number of cars the dealers are allocated
from 
>Audi are correlated to the prior quarter's sales figures. Probably a good time 
>to buy. They may be more anxious to more product to increase their allocation 
>next quarter and hence their profits. Either that, or we had a good
salesman 8-)

Actually, the current sales cycle ends August 30; they run in 4 month cycles
Jan-Apr; May-Aug; Sep-Dec.  If he wanted you to pick it up by the end of
Aril, he was squeezing everything into the last cycle.  BTW, did you get a
portion of the $1000 holdback they got for your sale?