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Wednesday, 27 October, 2010
BMW snubs bargain-hunting Swiss consumers
BMW has reportedly been telling its dealerships in Germany and other neighboring EU countries, not to sell to Swiss buyers who’ve come over the border to take advantage of deals there—especially given the newly strong franc. Now Switzerland’s competition commission (COMCO) has opened an investigation into BMW, saying buying outside of Switzerland should be allowed. For more details, WRS’s Conor Lennon called up Christian Schürer, a journalist with Kassensturz on Swiss-German television’s SF1, which broke the story:
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