Protected marketing territory is a standard and common practices in most businesses, one of the most important part of any marketing/sales arrangement we make with any salesperson or sales company or distributors, their rights must be protected without freelancers running around stealing business from their pockets, or the HQ taking business in their market without paying them the commission. The other side of the coin is when you have a customer who do not like to do business with that salesman or distributor or the retailer is rude or arrogant. It is very serious offense if I make a big sale in New York city without knowledge or paying our NYC salesmen.
I know a guy who buys brand new BMW, Benz, Lincoln cars here in US and ship them to China, he sells to the dealers there or buy for them. They have hundreds of buyers waiting in line with cold cash for new cars, these are not drug dealers or bad guys, just consumers hungry for new cars. I was surprised to learn that it is not an easy task to buy a lot of new cars. Most dealers will not sell to him once they even suspect of export sales, wherever they export the cars to; after awhile most dealers in the area know he is buying lots of new cars to send to China, which makes it even harder for him. Auto manufacturers punish the dealerships very harshly if they find out about it. Having said that, he manages to find few dealers willing to find a way around it. According to him, not easy at all, it is battle all the way, and the dealers in China can double the money even before the cars are loaded onto the ships.
Back to Hummer. Of course you can buy a Hummer anywhere you like, there are many willing Hummer dealers, including my local Hummer manager, just don't blow the horn too loudly.
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