New Carrollton Team Members Welcome aboard April and Marianne. The club member s artwork is proudly displayed in the branches. Kirby Kangaroo Club is for children up to age 12. The children receive an annual birthday card, a free gift when the account is opened, special mailings, all in addition to the events planned just for Kirby kids. According to The Wall Street Journal, many dealers already are abandoning the practice of negotiating down from an MSRP, as more consumers arrive at showrooms with invoice price information that they ve downloaded from the internet.
Dealers can t afford to lose sales to Internet retailers.
Analysts at J.D. Power and Associates estimate that more than half of buyers will use the Web this year to get vehicle-purchasing information and according to Forrester Research, the Internet will influence almost eight million new vehicle purchases in 2003. In addition to Member Service Representatives duties Shrope also works in the data processing area.