Why do dealers "punch the clock" ?

[akim47]

Thanks for the responses. First, regarding CPOs.. yes, the CPO is based on the ORIGINAL in service date of the car. You get the balance of the 4 years 50K miles. Then tack on 2 more years to the original date for the extended warranty...

Regarding punching the clock... I guess I can understand getting more allocation or booking the sale to get the incentives from BMW. BUT... BUT... I don't believe it entails listing the car as a demo. It does not mean that there was stuff wrong with the car and they needed to punch it to get the warranty work done.. that's all BS. I'm looking at the list as we speak and there are 15 X5's on the list with warranty start date of 11/30/10. I GUARANTEE you that they are not advertising this and are selling these cars as brand new and extending out the warranty. I do think it BS since most customers won't know to look or maybe don't care. These are not demo cars, because the demo cars have "BMW NA DEMO" and a date next to it in the memo section. 2 of the cars on the list even had a warranty start date of 11/1/10. You sell these cars on Jan 1 and you've used up 4.2% of the warranty period that the customer would be entitled to. That has to be worth something.