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Volume 30 // Issue 4
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40 ARTICLES
30 // Product Weight-In: Specialty retailers give their two cents on a number of newly released products and whether or not those products equare to sales or a new customer base.
48 //Accepting Credit Cards Offers Rewards As Well As Risks Consumers prefer plastic, but merchants must contend with fees, possible fraud.
54 //Installer Training:
Expertise Counts, But So Does Attitude Ocala’s 60-day ‘break
in’ gives any new installer the basics and installs a standard of excellence, but the
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What has been thought of as an industry enemies — Internet sales and transshipping — could prove to be a money-making proposition for specialist retailers. But first a proposed partner- ship between MERA and eBay Motors must take shape.
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Policies & Practice at Cartronix Make Business Look Easy
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candidate also has to pass the ‘staff fit’ test.
58 // Installs This month’s featured
projects include turning up the bass, Chevy remodels and a souped up Toyota Supra.
DEPARTMENTS 06 // Feedback 08 // Editor’s Forum 12 // Peer to Peer 13 // Do This … Don’t Do That 14 // Stats 15 // The Best Stuff For … 52 // External Effects 64 // Retail Development 66 // A Word From MERA
//30 FEATURES
18 // Enter ebay Motors? Te unthinkable could soon be a
reality: the ability for specialists to sell their brands online.
32 // Top 50/100 feature While changes may occur
within the industry as a result of new management, one car audio store has maintained the original business techniques, while increasing popularity amongst customers.
40 // Top 12 ME Retailer Cartronix Mixes Old & New for
Major Dividends While changes may occur within an industry as a result of new management, one car audio store has maintained the original business techniques, while increasing popularity amongst customers.
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Could the car-buying division of our perceived nemesis become a specialist’s ally?
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