The Russian market is switching to a new way of operating: “heavy luxury” goes under “parallel import”, the middle class that survives gets new “Chinese” at its disposal, but the lower price segment goes to LADA and the ubiquitous “subordinate”. Two hundred thousand tons of cargo transported through Vladivostok is proof of this.How many came from Europe on their own and on car transporters – no one counted.
Dealers, who have lived with a monstrous shortage of goods for sale for years, understand this trend. And they just understand, but form: the Russian domestic market is already divided between those who will have to deal with the new “Chinese”, who will bring the required amount of parallel imports, and, in fact, companies operating the second-hand car sector. For example, “Rolf” does not hide: that he sees his main source of profit precisely in transactions with used “cars”. The service will develop and change, for which very serious multi-level work is already being carried out.
At this point, many DC’s locations have become settling tanks for substandard conditions, where for years cars have been unloaded that they couldn’t sell on their own. This happened due to the high liquidity of trading transactions, as well as the well-known scheme, when the appraiser was a “gold pen”, and he, in turn, “did not notice” some, say, shortcomings of the machine being inspected.