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Help me out here, :-/ This is a general reflection of the many threads on this board recently. What is it that sellers can do for consumers to earn your trust and business, and consumers what can you do for sellers to help them earn your consideration.A dealer with a business overhead to support two store locations 30 minutes apart with employee payroll and 16 different models on display, with each store having 2 of the 4 most popular models available for wet testing, representing one with a lounge and one without a lounge at each store. That leaves 14 models with out water that over the year someone is interested in each model some more than others.Can you see my problem here. As a consumer, what do you want a dealer to do? Of course, you are going to say that you would like to wet test the particular model that you are interested in and the next shopper would as well, like to wet test again a different model. All models would have to rotate as each shopper chooses to wet test a different model every day. Yet you all, shop without a committment to buy, because you have not wet tested all of the manufacturers, or the different models of those manufacturers that you THINK you may have an interest in. :-/ OH YES, we all want the cheapest or most competetive price with all the extras free and NOT included in the price, delivered with everything installed and of course with both excellent and superior service on demand, And if not attended to as expected, you chastize the dealers operation with a posting of regret about how you are handled and or offended, and you send a memo off to the owner to achieve personal satisfaction and gratification. No wonder consumers don't like the profit mongering sellers who are sometimes referred to as something less than respectable human beings that can not be trusted and who are looking to profit excessively on a sale.While the dealers are trying to appeal to the shopping consumers to represent quality goods, fair pricing, and superior and considerate customer service.As I read these posts, I am perplexed to understand how any consumer could or would ever consider being a seller in this type of business. Much less for that matter, why any dealer wants to be in this business, oh my gosh I almost forgot, the excessive profits and the unending love of taking the indignant and abusive attitudes of self centered and untrusting individuals. WOW.Dealers are vilified by shopping consumers here on this board and new shopping consumers are led to believe this is the natural way of doing business.No wonder so many of the dealers come in and go out of business as they do while manufacturers threaten them with extinction and termination unless they get their marketshare. I guess that makes this a dog eat dog type of business that has little respect for each other.I wish I could make it different, but how could that be done?