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    When Canada started investigating this, Trump started his threats of invasion.

    Just in case you still don’t know who the actual president is.

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      That’s not entirely accurate- the threats were present before this occurred, he just ramped up the threats afterwards.

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      I’m not sure melon head could figure out how to use the Fediverse.

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            Removes everyones social security to get himself deleted via bullet

            Maybe he’s trying to do assisted suicide? I can’t imagine things going well when a bunch of old people, many with guns, are going to be left incomeless because of him. Though I suppose it’s always possible for the republicans to somehow blame biden, minorities, or people with dyed hair for it and most will buy it.

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      8,653 cars over four dealerships in three days is 961 ~721 cars per dealer per day. (edit: fixed my math)

      No dealership carries that many cars in one go, much less even capable of processing that many sales within 24hrs. Your average dealership sells maybe 100 cars a month.

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        8,653 cars over four dealerships in three days is ~961 cars per dealer per day.

        *~721 (you accidentally divided by 3x3 instead of 4x3 for dealerships x days)

        (Which is still absurd, of course)

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        It’s roughly 722, which isn’t far off enough of 961 to make a difference in the plausibility of this claim, but I wanted to throw that out there.

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        Could they be inflating it using internarional order fulfillment/ shuffling cars to other dealerships? A dealership in idk India wants a Model X with a specific trim and motors, so they pack and ship,and count it as sold from these 4 Canadian inventories? Also moving them to the US for sales since they’re not selling well internationally?

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          If the dealership had 100 employees in the Show room, each of them would have to process 76 customers a day. At an 8 hour work day, that would be one ~10 customers per hour.

          This gives each employer 6 minutes to finish a sale.

          Very unlikely, if not impossible.

          The biggest dealer I have ever been to had like 5 salespersons in store at any given time.

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            They don’t have to process customers if they’re fulfilling “a dealership in the US has asked for 5 of our triple motors in red” They’re filing a transfer and then listing it as if “we sold 5 cars” to bump numbers

            That’s what I’m asking if they can do, illicit, to try and make it look like they’re making sales

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            The biggest dealer I have ever been to had like 5 salespersons in store at any given time.

            And probably half that in financing people.

            I worked for a dealership group for a few years, and we had 4 different buildings in our local campus. Like you said, maybe 3-6 sales people in any given shift in each building, but only 1-2 financing people on shift in the same building.

            Not even mentioning that the easy sales still took 30-45 minutes to get through financing. There’s no possibile way that this is legit…

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            Car salespeople work longer than 8 hours. More like 10, especially nowadays where pickins are slim. Still a bunch of bullshit numbers no matter how you slice it. This really gives the same vibes as Trump inflating the value of his properties by lying about the square footage. I would bet there’s some kind of financial gain being made from this claim.