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Is This the Year Dealers Finally Face Reality? with Joel Bassam
In this episode, I sit down with Joel Bassam, President of Easterns Automotive Group—a leader who doesn’t just “talk shop” but lives and breathes the used car business at scale.
If you’ve been feeling the squeeze—from inventory pressures to margin compression, rising recon costs, to the endless tariff noise—this episode will feel uncomfortably relevant.
Joel and I unpack what’s really happening behind the scenes in 2025. Why affordability has become the greatest roadblock to vehicle ownership. Why more consumers want cars but literally can’t get into them. And why, despite all the tech in the…
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