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By TWO SHOES

January 8, 2009 4:44 PM | Link to this

JUST A LITTLE QUALITY FEEDBACK SCORE CHRYSLER DODGE AND JEEP HAD A FIRST CLASS OPERATION! THEY HAD QUALITY PEOPLE, BOTH CUSTOMER AND PERSONNEL , BOB THE OWNER WAS A TRUE THROWBACK TO WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A LEADER, OWNER,HE MADE EVERY ATTEMPT TO GROW HIS BUSINESS, BY PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL SALES , SERVICE, AND WAS VERY PRO MIDDLETOWN, THE SITUATION WAS MUCH MORE THAN MIDDLETOWN, OH OR CHRYSLER PRODUCTS, ITS OUR USA’S COMPLETE MELTDOWN DUE TO OUTSORCING JOBS IN ALL INDUSTRIES,THE FALLOUT IS TRAGIC

By Renee

January 8, 2009 4:46 AM | Link to this

This is just to comment on the business closings in this quadrant ie., Waffle House, BP and Score. Two weeks ago, I heard ODOT is exercising eminent domain on the corner of 122 and southbound I75 for the I75 construction project. This is in no way a defense of city council as I agree they are as idiotic and short sighted as they come. It’s just possible the construction project is why bp and Waffle House will no longer be there and not shortsighted council rulings.

By Carbizguy

January 7, 2009 2:17 PM | Link to this

I work at a car dealership here IN Middletown. People are complaining about their home values going down, that Middletown is a dying city, and crying the blues about life in Middletown. Then they go to Cincinnati or Dayton to buy a car! KEEP YOUR BUSINESS IN YOUR TOWN PEOPLE! If the businesses in this town can stay afloat, you will be MUCH better off! Good luck SCORE guys! SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES!!!!

By TIM

January 7, 2009 11:32 AM | Link to this

You people are pathetic! Bob is a good honest man and supported your community. I’m sure there wasn’t a day gone by where someone in the community was begging on his doorstep for donations and the majority of time he gave. He doesn’t deserve the bashing that you folks are giving him. If you don’t know him personally, you should keep your comments to yourself. Get a life!!

By Loyal American

January 7, 2009 10:54 AM | Link to this

My Toyota was made in the USA with 100% USA parts including the body (some stamped right here in Fairfield Ohio). My 1997 Ford Explorer was assembled in Louisville, KY in which a lot of the electrical components are from China, The V-8 5.0 motor & transmission were made in Brazil. My brother-in-law worked for Ford at the Atlanta assembly plant until Ford decided to close it and build the Taurus & Sable in Canada. He now owns a Honda & Toyota.

By TD

January 7, 2009 9:35 AM | Link to this

Oh, how this amuses me. To the guy whose Canadian built Ford was a “Jap” car. It had to be a Crown VIC, Grand Marq, Windstar, or a new MKX, EDGE or Flex. I know these cars almost as well as the back of my hand, and off the top of my head cannot think of one part used on ANY of these vehicles that was produced in Japan. If you happen to see a label that says “made in Japan” on ANY Ford product, please let us know. Here’s the problem, uninformed “American” buyers supporting the wrong side.

By DODGEM -ON RT.4

January 6, 2009 10:08 PM | Link to this

just to comment on HAMILTON-FAIRFIELD CHRYSLER-JEEP went their before and what i seen was a man in shop horseing around like little kids more interested in showing his tattoos of to co-workers couldnt understand having a guy around customers like that would never send my daughters car their again and by the I THINK his name was _ _ _ !

By E.S.P

January 6, 2009 9:35 PM | Link to this

BUY MORE WALLMART BIGGEST BUYER OF IMPORTS IN THE WORLD MAKE SURE YOU BUY THAT SALE ITEM THEY HAVE NOW CAUSE WHEN ALL THE MOM & POP STORES ARE GONE YOU WILL STILL BE ABLE TO GO TO WALLMART BUT THE PRICE WILL BE HIGHER THEN BECAUSE THEY WILL BE THE ONLY STORE THATS OPEN… SO HURRY PUSH YOUR CHRYSLER TO WALL MART THEY SELL CHRYSLER PARTS

By WHO?

January 6, 2009 9:26 PM | Link to this

WHO’S WONDERING???????? ________________________________________________________________________

By KLUNKERS 4 -EVER OR (NO CAR)

January 6, 2009 9:22 PM | Link to this

PLEASE ME AND ME DONT WAIT GO BUY YOU A PAIR OF SHOES THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL UNION WORKERS HAVE PRICED THEIR SELVES OUT OF A JOB GREED IT IS CALLED $7.70 IS MIN WAGE NOW GET USE TO IT AFTER YOUR OVER PRICED UN- EMPLOYMENT CHECKS RUN OUT THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL AND MOPAR NOCAR PLEASE ME AND ME GO TO SCORE THEY WILL SELL YOU DEALERSHIP AND GIVE YOU A 7 yr 70,000 MILE WARRANTY THAT NOT WORTH A HOOT AND IM SURE THEY ALSO HAVE SOME LEFTOVER CHRYSLERS FOR SALE MAYBE THEY’LL GIVE YOU A SPECIAL!

By Wondering

January 6, 2009 9:10 PM | Link to this

What is it about comments that seems to bring out the mean streak in people, and what do they add to the public discourse? I’m left with the feeling that people say negative, cruel things behind their anonymous names that they would never say face to face. Would you say these things to the employees and ownership of this failed dealership if they were sitting across from you at your kitchen table?

Journal-News, what’s the value of this?

By Captain Skruffy

January 6, 2009 9:03 PM | Link to this

How many of the parts used in “American” autos come from “America?” Over one half! How many plants make the same parts for both the “Jap” & “American auto.” 99 percent! What do the American auto workers do with their “Jap” paycheck? They spend every dime in the US! Why do you think every bolt and nut is metric on YOUR American auto, because it’s a “Jap” part! Wake up! Your US car is as much “Jap” as your TV!

By KLUNKERS 4-EVER

January 6, 2009 8:56 PM | Link to this

I boughta 3OOM special in 2002 SPECIAL MY A _ _ paid $33000,00 what a lemon had it to dealer several times well maintained car has only has 38000 miles now dash lights work when they want to. $1200.00 they wanted to fix this 7yrs 70,OOO warranty is a joke would never buy another chrysler will drive a KLUNKER first motor makes noise when first started from new they said it was normal none of my other cars trucks make noise like that. recalled for bolts & nuts loose must have have union breaktime

By Captain Skruffy

January 6, 2009 8:55 PM | Link to this

My Ford was made in Canada with most of it’s parts comming from Japan. My Toyota was made in the US. Which do you call American? Much more of the “American” cars are using “Jap” parts than one would even think. Americans get the money from the auto sales, taxes, and service. Does it really make any difference where the auto originated? Kind of like giving away free razors or computer printers, now you have to buy razor blades and ink cartridges forever. Except they don’t give away autos.

By Buy Deez Nuts

January 6, 2009 8:10 PM | Link to this

Buy american is a bunch of garbage. Where did your TV and your DVD player come fro Hint, not from here. If unions hadn’t gotten so greedy and said, “give me 100k a year to turn a screwdriver”, we wouldn’t be in this spot. We hunkered down, and assumed the good times would keep on rolling. We didn’t adjust business practices, unions just kept holding their hands out. Most of the union idiots I’ve met are worthless. They would starve to death in any other country. gimme, gimme, I’ll be sleeping.

By JACK

January 6, 2009 6:38 PM | Link to this

AMERICAN MADE TOYOTA BUT WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?? JAPAN? THE BIG 3 ARE RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA IN DETROIT LETS NOT FORGET THAT. ROLL ON WITH YOUR JAP CRAP

By PJ

January 6, 2009 5:52 PM | Link to this

This is a sad day to hear that Score closed its doors. My relationship with chrysler started there some 11 years ago. My family over the past 12 years have owned 11 or 12 Chrysler vehicles. I myself just purchased my 4th in August 07. It bothers me that people buy foreign cars when their American companies are in trouble. Slowing auto sales means steel worker cuts, plants closing, manufacturing jobs lost. Wake up people!!! MOPAR or NO CAR!!!

By me and me

January 6, 2009 5:13 PM | Link to this

The poster that said that he thinks guys like bob smith put their butts on the line for this country; is whats really wrong. Do you honestly think he was doing his patriotic duty selling cars? Esp cars that are in some sense way over priced? Get real and wake up. There are plenty of other people that put “thier butts on the line” for this country. Ex. Soliders, teachers, doctors, nurses and etc.Whats happening to the auto industry is karma. Bad buisness practices should net you a bailout.

By Loyal American

January 6, 2009 5:11 PM | Link to this

I decided to buy an American made Toyota. Yes, I supported American jobs by buying an American made Toyota from Georgetown Kentucky. Toyota & Honda are the only vehicles MADE in the USA. The 3 major so called American brands ship their parts in from overseas manufacturer’s and assemble the final product here in the USA.

By Robotred

January 6, 2009 4:55 PM | Link to this

The closing of this 18 year old Middletown dealership is only the beginning. And it is the fault of every American citizen in southwestern Ohio who has made the choice to buy a foreign brand vehicle. As Earl Pitts would say,”Wake Up America!” Does no one realize that every new American brand vehicle that is sold here supports the millions of American households AND the total American infrastructure like roads, bridges, powerplants, schools, etc?! And foreign brands sold do not.

By Ed

January 6, 2009 4:05 PM | Link to this

Its a sign of things to come if this up and coming generation doesn’t learn things like pride and integrity.Just pull your pants up and wear them like the men and women you are.This country isn’t set back because of a war,we have always been at war with somebody.We have to start buying more American products, your gonna have to afford it or other countries products are gonna take over.Kind of like they already have taken over,I’m guilty of by non American to but i do when i can.The U.S.A.is best

By Richard

January 6, 2009 4:03 PM | Link to this

Sorry Scored closed. I live in Oakland, Ca who happen to have an interest in Ohio. I spendt several months there in the 1980’s. What’s happening in Middleton is happening in many parts of America and the world. Unfortunately, our economy is a debt economy. And, unfortunately, many of the comments seem to think it’s city government and the dealership’s fault they are closing. They are misguided and, probably watching a lot of television instead of reading. BTW: This in not Bush’s fault - it start with issuing credit cards by gasoline companies in the 1950’s. We’ve been going the debtor’s hill since.

By Hammer

January 6, 2009 3:23 PM | Link to this

I don’t go to Middletown to purchase anything mainly because I can go elsewhere and avoid the dangerous intersections caused by the red light cameras that are there to rob the public

By hmt

January 6, 2009 3:10 PM | Link to this

It’s interesting to me reading these posts… I’m amazed at how many people get a kick out of other people losing their livelihood. Score was an incredible dealer. Anyone remember the crooks that owned the Chrysler dealer before Bob did??? If memory serves me correctly, the previous owner spent time in prison. Any negative feedback people give dealers is mostly because they couldn’t screw the dealer out of something for nothing, not the other way around. Most of the people that have negative feelings are too ignorant to realize that vehicles break, and it’s not the dealer’s responsibility to fix your problem at their expense. But to keep a good name, the dealer pays for the repair themselves, and when you do that enough, ultimately the end is going to come.

By I'm a Technitian too

January 6, 2009 2:37 PM | Link to this

Yep, I’m going to go to a place with an advertisement where the poster can’t spell technician. Brilliant. Your caps lock key must be stuck too.

By BILL

January 6, 2009 1:37 PM | Link to this

THERE ARE A LOT OF GOOD REPAIR SHOPS IN MIDDLETOWN THAT HAVE CHRYSLER CERTIFIED TECHNITIONS. LIKE MADISON AUTO CARE WHERE THEY SPECIALIZE IN JEEP AND DODGE VEHICLES. GIVE THEM A CALL 513-425-7055

By Hugh Jorgan

January 6, 2009 1:11 PM | Link to this

What impact? Yes, the car dealer occupying the former putt-putt is going to cause a huge rift in the economy. Oh no, what is to become of us? They must have employed at least 10 people! It’s not funny that people lost their jobs, but come on. The place was a toilet, just like the rest of middletown. Is this even news worthy? Just go get your over-priced, under-optimized car somewhere else. The guy ripped people off for 18 years, now it’s come full circle.

By Phil Man

January 6, 2009 1:07 PM | Link to this

I was always confused by the place. I mean, the sign says “Score”. Whenever I went in, there were never any chics to score with. I thought it was misleading.

By Springy

January 6, 2009 12:16 PM | Link to this

Businesses are leaving Middletown because no one in town has any money to spend. The population is functionally illiterate and your former pot smoking BBQ pedaling mayor showed no leadership and the idiots on council are incompetant boobs. 30 years of City Center Malls, Lake Middletowns, downtown renewals and on and on have destroyed a once thriving city. If you can’t educate your youth and can’t keep them at home your City is then run by dim wits and hacks and abracadabra your city folds.

By Lebomb

January 6, 2009 12:01 PM | Link to this

I am the guy pimpin wrote about, Score is out of business mostly do to it’s own management and sales team. Middletown is in trouble because for the last 25 years voters have elected morons to run the city. People who know nothing about how to attract white collar jobs and high tech industries. Blame City council if you want but the citizens elected them. A poor school system has lead to a population of semi-retarded hillbillys. The majority of smart and college educated people leave Middletown.

By John

January 6, 2009 11:53 AM | Link to this

Maybe, just maybe in the end we will look at ourselves as the real problem and not everyone else. Could we have stopped what is going on today, yes. We could have paid better attention to the people we put in positions of service instead of voting party etc. and when they fail us vote them out. We could have realized when the unions and managements were unfair and voiced our concerns instead of taking the party line. Lets think about it going forward; it is WE THE PEOPLE not party.

By pimpin

January 6, 2009 11:29 AM | Link to this

my friend was out looking for a new nice car a few years ago and we went to score to look into getting a crossfire etc. We walked in and after 15 minutes of standing with the sales staff ignoring us we went to acura and was greeted right away and treated like valuable consumers so he purchased an acura TL. ( great ride). We looked at all American brands first but it was the attitudes of the dealerships that led him to find out how nice a TL is and he will never go back to anything else

By Linda

January 6, 2009 10:54 AM | Link to this

Don’t forget all the dealers in Kings Auto Mall!

By VietVet

January 6, 2009 10:47 AM | Link to this

As Rome burns,the Middletown City Council fiddles away.Apparently,losing Chick-Fil-A,Waffle House,BP(a while back),Dillard’s,Fazoli’s and many others recently,doesn’t matter to the folks running the city.Must not care about business or jobs,just sign ordinances,Section8,their own business interests and slapping paint on dilapidated houses in the city to “spiffy them up”.The city is falling apart and they don’t have a clue that it has gone down hill at all.(or don’t care)Clean house next election

By Mark

January 6, 2009 10:24 AM | Link to this

It’s too bad to see good people like those at Score to shut the doors. I worked with this dealership as a Chrysler Rep (just retired) for many years and found them to be honest and caring. Unfortunately, the economic conditions, credit crisis and uncertainly in the auto industry will result in more doors closing. It’s guys like Bob Smith who put the butts on the line everyday that make this country great. I only wish Bob and the rest of the crew good luck in this uncertain time.

By scott

January 6, 2009 10:10 AM | Link to this

Sorry about your luck Lonnie. I may just keep driving my old car, runs good. Thank you for the information.

By scott

January 6, 2009 10:10 AM | Link to this

Sorry about your luck Lonnie. I may just keep driving my old car, runs good. Thank you for the information.

By Chuck

January 6, 2009 10:00 AM | Link to this

The City council worries about section 8 housing more than they care about anything else. Well the money is running out for that too.

What will the council do when they wont have section 8 housing to take up all the city budget?

Idiots they are all idiots.

By lonnie

January 6, 2009 9:58 AM | Link to this

Here is something to research. I learned the hard way when Stenger Ford in dayton closed…… If you have traded a vehicle in, that money was still owed on in the last 90 days, 99% likely the dealerships close without having paid off your previous lender. This will leave you holding two auto loans and one vehicle and most importantly, no recourse. I know, i paid on two loans to Ford Motor Credt for 2 years, while in possession of one vehicle. I just hope no one did this at Score.

By Ike

January 6, 2009 9:23 AM | Link to this

SCORE Waffle House Chick Filet

The Businesses are fleeing/closing in Middletown while our leaders argue about Section 8, what a way to go City Council.

By Yippee

January 6, 2009 9:18 AM | Link to this

Well, it’s a good thing there are about 980 car lots on Route 4!

By WILL*WITH*A*WAY

January 6, 2009 9:09 AM | Link to this

I’m sure SCORE (C) DODGE (J) was among the rest of the dealers throughout the good ol’ USA to tack another $10,000 to $25,000 to the $41,985 MSRP for the 2008 DODGE CHALLENGER SRT. Some dealers are still adding an additional $1K to $2K to the 2009 CHALLENGER window stickers while most are demanding MSRP. One would think the distraught automotive industry would be willing to sell its vehicles to AMERICANS at a reasonable price! 99.9% of all GM dealers are charging MSRP for the CAMARO. OH WELL!

By Hippee

January 6, 2009 9:04 AM | Link to this

There will be many more dealerships closing, there are way too many, they cut each others profit down to nothing and it is very hard to run a business with little or no profit.

By scott

January 6, 2009 9:00 AM | Link to this

Jim, I am glad they work for you. I tried it and ran back to Score. I am still out the money.

By Danny

January 6, 2009 8:56 AM | Link to this

The real question is who is next? They are all going down eventually. I vote for Chevy down on Verity, followed quickly by Middletown Ford and Guyler.

By jim

January 6, 2009 8:37 AM | Link to this

NOT FORGET HAMILTON-FAIRFIELD DODGE JEEP ON ROUTE 4 IN HAMILTON. THEY HAVE GREAT SALES, SERVICE, AND PARTS DEPARTMENTS. I HAVE BEEN GOING THERE FOR YEARS, THEY ARE THE BEST!

By scott

January 6, 2009 8:27 AM | Link to this

I have always had good customer service from Score, that the other’s in the area have not yet matched.

By MDS

January 6, 2009 8:06 AM | Link to this

What was the Dodge and Chrysler dealership there before Score?? Bought a 1974 Plymouth Duster there, very good ride.

By Dawg Dan

January 6, 2009 8:06 AM | Link to this

Momma always told me, “Bob, when times get bad, lock the dorrs and run!”……and I always do what momma tells me.

By Yippee

January 6, 2009 7:44 AM | Link to this

I have one thing to say: “S-C-O-R-E…SCORE! SCORE! Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge…On Route 4!!!”

Ye will be missed…