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Announcing Additional Finance Company Panel at 2009 Special Finance Convention

Auto Dealer Monthly is pleased to announce the addition of the Sunday August 9th Finance Company Panel, which focuses on securing D-Tier customers. It will take place on day one of the 2009 Special Finance Convention. The panel will include:

by Staff
July 14, 2009
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Financing Sources for Older, Higher Mileage Vehicles and the Harder to

Place Customer

SARASOTA, FL – (July 14, 2009) – Auto Dealer Monthly is pleased to announce the addition of the Sunday August 9th Finance Company Panel, which focuses on securing D-Tier customers. It will take place on day one of the 2009 Special Finance Convention. The panel will include: 

• Vehicle Acceptance Corporation, Sara Upton, Chief Operating Officer
• Western Funding Inc, Dwight Cope, President
• Westlake Financial Services, Eric Eggebrecht, Regional Manager

The Finance Company Panel features a 45-minute Q&A discussion on what it takes to secure indirect financing for those harder-to-place customers—including program guidelines, proper deal structure and inventory.  Finding financing for these customers has become increasingly difficult, which is why Auto Dealer Monthly added a second finance company panel to the convention. 

“One of the questions that I am asked most often in today’s market is ‘What SF company will finance older, higher mileage vehicles, or the D-Tier credit buyer?’  The companies on this panel certainly should give dealers (both franchise and independent) great ideas and options,” said Greg Goebel, chairman of the 2009 SF Convention.

About the 2009 Special Finance Convention
The 2009 SF Convention is an exclusive two-and-a-half day event for dealers and dealership management that will cover the gamut of subprime – from near-prime to buy here pay here – and is the event to attend for an unrivaled education in subprime financing. It will be held at the Fairmont in Dallas, Texas, on August 9th through August 11th. For more information, call 888.490.0303 or visit www.2009SFConvention.com.

About Auto Dealer Monthly
Auto Dealer Monthly is the parent company and publisher of Auto Dealer Monthly and Special Finance Insider and the host of the 2009 Special Finance Convention. Both publications provide timely features that matter to today’s automotive executives, along with a wide variety of expert viewpoints and dealer success stories. For more information, visit www.AutoDealerMonthly.com.

 

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