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BertVermaas · 05-08-2009, 05:50 AM

hi jginnane

No, I did not ask Nissan corporate. It never occurred to me that the factory would sell directly to a private person instead of to a dealer. I very much doubt that.

Therefore I think the cars you saw in columbia where purchased from the local dealership. Sure there is one.
And still, if they would. "My" container being shipped from Japan thru the panama canal would have to travel several times the distance of what I did now, Miami-Aruba. Therefore, the shipping charges would for sure also be several times higher. You cannot compare the charge per container for the dealer when cars are shipped by the hundreds on the same vessel to the states to the shipping charges for one individual "special order" container.
So frankly, even if the factory would have sold me direct (and at what price??), the much higher shipping charges would have spoiled everything (I think).
But yeah, I did not check.
Anybody knows if Nissan would sell "directly", bypassing the dealer?

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BertVermaas Base Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Aruba Age: 65 Posts: 13 Drives: 370Z MT Black Rep Power: 16	to jginnane hi jginnane No, I did not ask Nissan corporate. It never occurred to me that the factory would sell directly to a private person instead of to a dealer. I very much doubt that. Therefore I think the cars you saw in columbia where purchased from the local dealership. Sure there is one. And still, if they would. "My" container being shipped from Japan thru the panama canal would have to travel several times the distance of what I did now, Miami-Aruba. Therefore, the shipping charges would for sure also be several times higher. You cannot compare the charge per container for the dealer when cars are shipped by the hundreds on the same vessel to the states to the shipping charges for one individual "special order" container. So frankly, even if the factory would have sold me direct (and at what price??), the much higher shipping charges would have spoiled everything (I think). But yeah, I did not check. Anybody knows if Nissan would sell "directly", bypassing the dealer?