Indentured slavery

Imagine that?!

Natalie

I can't believe Learning Richard hasn't replied to this charge yet. Imagine that, someone calling him a "racist".

I thought I was fanning!

(who was it that told me to limit to two trolls a day?)

Yeah. And she had good manual dexterity and could do some jobs no one else could. Her boss cried when she left (after 4 years)

No wonder you hooked up with her...that manual dexterity can do wonders...

Natalie

Customers would be queuing up to hand over their cash. Nice.

In the UK then about 500 a year would be large from one depot. I suspect that very few franchise dealers exceed 1500 per year from one depot. Used car supermarkets are a different matter and they may well hit 500 a month.

Huw

I thought slavery was banned in the British Colonies in 1833, the same year William Wilberforce died. That makes him even older or a time-traveler of some sort.

Charles of Kankakee

Most big domestic dealerships pay even more today. Generally .05% of the gross or a minumu of 2% of the net on new. 3% of the selling price on used. I do not understand what you mean by EX: 2005 Celica, 20,995=$4,000!!! If the used vehicle sold at $20,995 the salesman would earn $629.85 Percentage of the gross is not the selling price, it is the gross profit on the sale. If you meant $4,000 was the gross on a NEW 2005, the salesman would earn $200

mike hunt

Most large domestic deanships have a $500 weekly draw, but no salary, for sales people.

mike hunt

The vast majority of new sales people will sell to their relatives and friends they die ;)

mike hunt

Actually the car business is a buyers market it the US. There are so many brands and models available of high quality vehicles that in the US is it hard for a dealership to stay in business unless the sell cars in large numbers because the margins are so small because of all the competition. More and more dealerships are being bought out by mega dealership groups that have the capital needed to stock large numbers of vehicles so they can make on the spot delivery. The group I worked for owned 11 dealerships in four states, when I became Group Sales Manager. When I retired ten years later they own 26 stores in seven states where we sold everything you can think of. A dealership that sells less than 500 new vehicles a month has a tough time competing because they need to earn more per sale. Many lower volume new car dealers actually go out and buy used cars to make some money in that larger lower price market. A successful big dealer must sell off their use cars to wholesalers to keep their lots clear.

mike hunt

"Huw" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net...

"Charles @ Kankakee" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

My source is the book "Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery", by Robert William Fogel (W.W. Norton, 1989).

Fogel says 1838 is the year the blanket British abolition took effect (table, page 207). By then, some British territories had already banned slavery on their own, notably Canada in 1803.

The abolition of slavery in English-speaking lands was a long, drawn out affair that lasted from about 1688 to 1865. Emancipation in the US actually began with the Vermont Constitution of 1777, which explicitly prohibited slavery within that state.

The first known American anti-slavery writings:

1688: A pamphlet by a small group of Quakers in Germantown, PA 1700: "The Selling of Joseph", a tract by a Massachusetts Puritan Judge named Samuel Sewall.

The Quakers were the earliest, and the most vociferous, American opponents of slavery.

Interestingly, France banned slavery in all French colonies in 1794, but this law was repealed by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804.

Brazil did not give up slavery until 1888. Czar Alexander II of Russia emanicipated Russian serfs in 1861, but serfdom persisted in some areas until the 1890s.

Some parts of Africa, Polynesia, and the Middle East still practice slavery to this day.

If his grandfather fathered his father at 70 years old but was only 20 while slave in 1838, that means his father was born in 1888. If his father fathered him when 70 that would mean he was born in 1958, the same year I was born and would make him a young 47. If he follows in his ancestors steps then the randy old sod will become a father at around 2028. I hope I will still be able to hold a stiffy [maybe I'll be a customer for viagra by then] and bed a nubile young female in 2028 ;-) Unlikely but not impossible.

Huw

"Wickeddoll®" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.evilcabal.org:

Hey, you know it. Trolls-R-Us. :)

I love the smell of troll roasting in the morning...or afternoon...or evening

Natalie

"Wickeddoll®" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.evilcabal.org:

Or in the depths of night, a crackling fire under a silvery moon...

Yeah, I misstated. Unfortunately, the new salesmen under the new regime aren't even making that. $75-100 for a new car...

if you know how to use it... :(

Um...yeah

Natalie