Behavior Interactive has launched hooked on youa visual novel that offers players the chance to date killers from Dead By Daylight.
During the Behavior Beyond showcase, Behavior Interactive announced that Hooked On You: A Dead By Daylight Dating Sim is available on Steam today (August 3).
A dating game created to address fans’ “deep thirst”, hooked on you is set on Murderer’s Island, where “four dead-sexy killers” from Dead By Daylight are looking for romance – The Trapper, The Huntress, The Wraith and The Spirit.
Behavior Interactive describes The Trapper as “an alpha male whose bulging biceps and singlet swimsuit leave little to the imagination,” while The Huntress will use her “herculean biceps and cute bunny mask” to woo suitors.
Meanwhile, The Wraith “is all fun and play, thanks to his sunny disposition and apropos button up and swim trunk,” while “bikini and Kimono-clad The Spirit is all goth and roll, ready to be charmed and charm with her Katana in tow.”
Hooked On You: A Dead By Daylight Dating Sim. Credit: Behavior Interactive
A new trailer for hooked on you shows that players will be able to befriend and romance these four killers through the dialogue options they select. There will also be a selection of minigames available to play, including chopping food with a machete and playing spin the bottle.
though hooked on you launches with four romanceable killers, Behavior Interactive has shared that it has enough killers to do “a couple more chapters” if it finds demand from fans is high enough.
The studio also says there is a “conversation to be had” on whether the IP holders of third-party killers in Dead By Daylight (EG Silent Hill‘s Pyramid Head, Halloween‘s Mike Myers) would allow Interactive Behavior to include their characters in a game that presents them in such a drastically different light.
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Premier Tagelagi occupies the highest office in the land of Niue, and three weeks ago was rubbing shoulders with Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese in Fiji at the Pacific Islands Forum.
He’s also a mad South Sydney Rabbitohs supporter.
Australian prime minister (top left) and Niue premier Dalton Tagelagi (top right) attend the Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji last month. Credit:Joe Armao
Tagelagi takes off his mask – he’s the only person in sight wearing one – and pulls up a seat at a wooden table just a few meters away from where he is about to do battle against Australia in the first round of the men’s fours event.
“Some of my close mates in bowls here know who I am. I try and hide,” Tagelagi tells the herald.
“I say to my friend ‘you’re the best man in this sport but I’m the top man in my country in politics’. We have a few jokes like that.”
It’s one of the great untold stories of the Commonwealth Games, which tends to throw up obscure stories involving athletes from smaller nations.
Niue president Dalton Tagelagi and New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern speak to media during a press conference in New Zealand in July. Credit:Getty
Tagelagi is a softly spoken man and has been in government since 2008. He was sworn in as Niue’s premier in June 2020.
Despite the optics of being in Birmingham competing at a third Commonwealth Games while COVID-19 begins to sweep through Niue, Tagelagi insists there is no issue.
He’s on annual leave.
Tagelagi has been supporting his 14-year-old son Tukala, who is another member of Niue’s small lawn bowls squad.
The first thing you notice about Tagelagi on the bowling green, as he coaches his son, is the AirPods in his ears.
They’re in place in case he needs to take – or make – an important call.
“I came here for a two-week break. This is the first time I’ve had a break since I became a leader,” Tagelagi says. “I used the chance to bring the young fella here and give him that experience at high-level sport.
“We have a little bit of an issue with our community in terms of an outbreak of about 20 [COVID-19 cases]. They’re managing it well. I still keep an eye on what’s happening back home. It keeps me busy.
“I’m going back to the polls next year. Three weeks ago I was with your prime minister in Fiji. I’ve been away from home for six or seven weeks now. I’m going to Australia in September for meetings in Brisbane.
Dalton Tagelagi and his 14-year-old are Tukala.Credit:Getty
“I actually grew up in Sydney myself.”
A big grin comes over Tagelagi’s face when he reflects on a two-year stint in Sydney in 1984 and 1985.
“I followed Bob Hawke’s leadership at the time before Paul Keating,” Tagelagi says. “I was down in Maroubra. I used to surf and row at the South Maroubra Surf Life Saving Club.
“I’m a Rabbitohs and NSW Blues man. I played league and rugby. That’s why my knees are bad.”
There are myriad scars all over Tagelagi’s arms and legs. More often than not he wears a suit, so no one notices.
“Back home I used to fall off the motorbike and little scooters,” Tagelagi says.
Does he miss Sydney?
“I miss the fish markets [in Pyrmont] that’s for sure,” Tagelagi says. “That’s the best hangover cure on a Sunday. I miss that. I’ve been around but home has always been Niue.”
Dalton Tagelagi is a busy man when he’s not on the lawn bowls green. Credit:Getty
Tagelagi admits he could have been more diligent in his preparation for these Games. Juggling lawn bowls commitments and the around-the-clock responsibilities of being the boss of a country is laborious.
“I have late nights,” Tagelagi says. “As soon as I turn 60, I’ll call it quits. I want to do something else. I can’t quit now though. I’m only 54, so I’ve got a while before I can get on the pension.”
Niue does not send athletes to the Olympics, so the Commonwealth Games is the peak for Tagelagi and his teammates.
The country’s bowling greens certainly aren’t flash. There are seven rinks to play on at a small bowling club with about 50 members.
Niue has one nine hole golf course.Credit:Niue Golf Course
Niue does not have beaches, just a reef that Tagelagi says divers enjoy exploring. The island is vulnerable to big waves and bad weather because there are no other islands surrounding it.
There’s a nine-hole golf course with about 20 members playing every Saturday morning.
There’s only one flight on and off the island every week.
Niue lost their fours match on Tuesday 18-8 against an Australian team featuring a business development manager (Carl Healey), ambassador for a bowling club (Ben Twist), a groundsman (Corey Wedlock) and a bowls coordinator (Barry Lester).
Did the Aussies know anything about Niue or the influential figure on the other team?
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“Not much, other than they’re pretty handy players and really lovely people too,” Healey said.
“I only just found that out that their skipper is the big dog. At the end of the day, you’re out there competing for your country.
“We don’t worry too much about saluting or bowing to anyone.”
Get all the latest news from the Birmingham Commonwealth Gameshere. We’ll be live blogging the action from 4pm-10am daily.
The trip of a lifetime has come to a crashing halt for a criminal who stole the identity of a man in South Australia, in an attempt to escape authorities and flee to the Northern Territory.
Key points:
Travis Whyte pleaded guilty to eight fraud-related offenses in April
He stole around $25,000 from a South Australian man, after stealing his identity
In a letter to a friend, Whyte described his offending as the “best two weeks of his life”
Travis Whyte, while on bail for offenses allegedly committed in South Australia, assumed the identity of another man, after coming into possession of his wallet in Whyalla in September last year.
Over the next two weeks, Whyte made his way to Darwin using the stolen bank cards, stealing fuel and twice evading police along the way.
He was eventually arrested in Darwin, attempting to purchase a $70,000 car.
In a letter Whyte wrote to a friend from prison in January this year, released by the court, he described his crimes as “the best 20 days of [his] life”.
“Darwin, first three days and I blew through my cash!!” Whyte wrote.
“Everyone thinks I’m [this] other bloke… his bank gave me full access to his 200k!! So I’m up on $180k fraud charges and looking at 2.5 years … I had the best 20 days of my life bro!! I can die a happy man!!”
The man went on a trip after coming into possession of someone else’s wallet.(ABC Adelaide: Brett Williamson)
“Spending somebody else’s money, buying cars to avoid detection, visiting a number of landmark sites in the NT [such as] the Devil’s Marbles, really enjoying himself in the course of this spree,” said Crown Prosecutor Tami Grealy.
“He continued until he was caught.”
A man who will “say anything to anyone to get what he wants”, according to Ms Grealy, Whyte withdrew close to $25,000 from the man’s accounts and was able to receive checks totaling $81,848 from the man’s bank by impersonating him.
He pleaded guilty to eight offences, including five charges of obtaining benefit by deception.
Travis Whyte went on a two-week roadtrip and was charged with fraud after coming into possession of someone else’s wallet.
The ‘best two weeks’
According to a statement of facts tendered to the Northern Territory Supreme Court, Whyte stopped at various roadhouses and hotels along the Stuart Highway as he made his way from Whyalla to Darwin.
On two occasions, he stole fuel from remote petrol stations and was eventually met by police in Katherine for failing to pay.
“The offender informed police his name was [the victim’s] and produced [his] license as identification,” the facts read.
“The offender indicated he panicked and left [the petrol station] but had been feeling guilty all day. He told police he would call his mother to get some money, then he would return to Mataranka and pay for the fuel.”
Whyte never returned to pay.
He was again picked up by police in Darwin city after he was seen mounting a kerb in his car around 3am on September 25 last year.
Police confiscated the stolen driver’s license from Whyte, after he tried to convince them he had “lost 20 kilograms” and that was why the picture didn’t look like him.
Whyte later managed to obtain a digital version of the victim’s license.
Ultimately, the 36-year-old’s great undoing was an attempt to use the stolen identity and money to purchase a car at Hidden Valley Ford in Darwin’s outer suburbs.
The fraudster visited a number of iconic and scenic Northern Territory attractions, including Karlu Karlu, also known as the Devil’s Marbles.(Wikimedia: Dagmar Hollman)
Dealership staff also queried why Whyte didn’t look like the picture in his stolen driver’s license, but according to the statement of facts, he told them he “had lost about 50 kilograms”.
After attending multiple banks in order to secure the money to buy a car, Whyte was met by plain-clothed police at Hidden Valley Ford after dealership staff tipped them off.
Upon his arrest, Whyte told officers he “didn’t feel like he was hurting anyone” and asked police “what had brought him unstuck.”
‘Literally no concern’, prosecutors say
In arguing for Whyte to be jailed with a non-parole period, Ms Grealy argued the letter he wrote to a friend showed “literally no concern” for anyone else.
“A man with his criminal history, who’s committed offenses of dishonesty for years… it is nonsense, in my submission, that only now… does he understand his offending touches the lives of anyone,” Ms Grealy said.
“This really is offending where he has gone to a lot of trouble to avoid detection … obviously, all signs point to somebody who was on the run, not looking to be located in the Northern Territory.”
Three of the territory’s gushing waterfalls were visited by Mr Whyte on his travels.(Supplied: Serena La Canna)
In his letter to a friend, Whyte wrote he had been “running amok” and “done all the touristy things.”
“Devil’s Marbles, eight different springs, three waterfalls, one national park and then I made it to Darwin,” Whyte wrote.
Mr Whyte’s defense lawyer told the court prosecutors had “cherrypicked” aspects of the letter and the “best 20 days of [his] life” was not necessarily due to “ripping people off”.
“The fact that some of the money he used was not his own does not mean it is the best part of his experience,” Giles O’Brien Hartcher said.
“The territory’s a beautiful place, we all want to do that. It’s not inconceivable that it would have been a fantastic time. The road trip up the Stuart Highway is a fantastic experience.”
Mr O’Brien Hartcher conceded his client was not a “fully reformed human being” but argued he should still be afforded future opportunities for rehabilitation.
“The benefit Mr Whyte enjoyed was objectively small,” Mr O’Brien Hartcher said.
Justice Jenny Blokland will hand down Whyte’s sentence on September 1.
For the first time since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, leaving it to states to determineabortion access, the issue appeared on a state ballot. In Kansas, CBS News projects that a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would eliminate the constitutional right to an abortion has been defeated.
The Kansas ballot initiative is seen as a bellwether for the impact of abortion on the midterm November elections.
Since the high court’s ruling ending the federal right to an abortion, at least 12 states have either banned abortion outright or after six weeks of pregnancy. Other states are also expected to move forward with further restrictions.
In Kansas, voters reaffirmed abortion is constitutionally protected, leaving in place a 2019 decision by the state Supreme Court. That ruling stated that a person has the right to personal autonomy and applied strict scrutiny to regulate abortion. The Kansas legislature would not be able to ban or enact further restrictions on abortion without a constitutional amendment.
In this photo from Thursday, July 14, 2022, a sign in a yard in Merriam, Kansas, urges voters to oppose a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution to allow legislators to further restrict or ban abortion. Opponents of the measure believe it will lead to a ban on abortion in Kansas.
John Hanna/AP
“Kansans stood up for fundamental rights today. We rejected divisive legislation that jeopardized our economic future & put women’s health care access at risk,” tweeted Kansas’ Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. “Together, we’ll continue to make incredible strides to make KS the best state in the nation to live freely & do business.”
President Biden issued a statement saying in part that, “This vote makes clear what we know: the majority of Americans agree that women should have access to abortion and should have the right to make their own health care decisions. Congress should listen to the will of the American people and restore the protections of Roe as federal law.”
The “Value Them Both” Amendment made it onto the Aug. 2 primary ballot after being passed in the Republican-controlled state legislature with two-thirds of the vote in both chambers in 2021.
“While the outcome is not what we hoped for, our movement and campaign have proven our resolve and commitment. We will not abandon women and babies,” said the Value Them Both Coalition, which supported the amendment, in a statement. The group went on to call the outcome a “temporary setback.”
While passage of the amendment would not have directly banned abortion in the state, legal experts said it would have paved the way for the state legislature, where Republicans hold a super majority, to ban abortion.
“Under the language of the amendment, it would be possible to adopt a total ban on abortion from the point of conception until birth, with no exceptions for rape, incest or the life or health of the mother,” said Richard Levy, a professor of law at the University of Kansas.
Leading up to the primary, groups for and against the amendment were engaged in an aggressive campaign to reach voters, knocking on doors, phone banking and holding rallies. Nearly $13 million was spent on ads in the state on the issue of abortion ahead of the vote, according to AdImpact.
“This historic victory was the result of a groundswell of grassroots support and a broad coalition of reasonable, thoughtful Kansans across the state who put health care over politics,” said Emily Wales, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes, of the amendment’s defeat. “We have seen the devastation caused by a loss of access to abortion in neighboring states and tonight, Kansans saw through the deception of anti-abortion interests to ensure people in their state retained their rights.”
Although this was an off-year primary, where turnout is generally very low — in past recent elections less than a third of voters turned out to cast their ballots — Kansas’ early voting emerged ahead of the Aug. 2 primary, suggesting voters were highly motivated by the issue of abortion.
Unofficial results Tuesday night from the Kansas Secretary of State’s office showed more than 781,500 people voted on the amendment in the state. With 90% of the vote counted as of 11:45 pm Tuesday, “No” led with 60.4% to “Yes” at 39.6%
Overall, party officials and politicians are keeping a close eye on how the overturning of Roe v. Wade could galvanize voters ahead of the midterms. According to the CBS News Battleground Tracker, abortion is as an important an issue as the economy and inflation to women under 50. More than two-thirds of women under 50 describe the Republican party as “extreme.” But Democrats appear to be disappointed with how their party is handling the issue of abortion. Fifty-nine percent said their party was not doing enough to protect access, whereas the majority of Republicans believe their party is taking the right approach on abortion.
Kansas is the first state in a handful in which voters will have their say on abortion rights in the midterms. Similar measures to the Kansas effort are on the ballots in Kentucky and Montana, while initiatives adding abortion protections to the state constitutions are on the ballots in California and Vermont. Efforts to amend the constitution to protect the right to an aborotion in Michigan are also underway.
House prices have fallen by more than $100,000 in three months in parts of the country as rising interest rates reduce borrowing power and accelerate price declines.
Six-figure sums were wiped from median house prices in Sydney’s north shore, northern beaches and inner west, as well as Melbourne’s inner east, in the June quarter, Domain data shows.
Prices in parts of Brisbane, Hobart and regional NSW also pulled back more than $50,000. The median house price for the capital cities combined fell by less than $10,000 by comparison.
The sizable price falls came after the Reserve Bank began lifting the cash rate from a record low of 0.1 per cent in May. The declines are expected to spread, with a fourth consecutive rate hike on Tuesday, increasing the rate to 1.85 per cent.
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Where property prices fell most for units, in dollar terms. (Domain)
Domain chief of research and economics Dr Nicola Powell said the cash rate increases had accelerated the slowdown, which was initially driven by an increased supply of homes for sale, affordability constraints, rising fixed-rate home loans and an increase to the interest rate serviceability buffer .
“Borrowing capacity has been eroded by higher rates and a higher cost of living … and there’s more to come in terms of a further acceleration in a deterioration in prices,” she said.
Median prices in premium markets had lost the most value, Powell said, which was to be expected, as the upper end typically led upswings and downturns.
In Sydney, prices dropped $250,000 in the north Sydney and Hornsby region, $200,000 in the inner west and $187,500 on the northern beaches. Prices in eastern suburbs held steady at median of $3.45 million but were down $200,000 year on year, due to price weakness in previous quarters.
House prices in Melbourne’s inner east dropped $107,500, while the median in Brisbane’s west fell $50,000.
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Where property prices fell most for houses, in dollar terms (Domain)
Sydney’s eastern suburbs and the Baulkham Hills and Hawkesbury region led unit declines in dollar terms, down $90,000 and $55,000. Prices also dropped more than $55,000 in Hobart and the Coffs Harbor and Grafton region.
Powell said price declines would continue to spread. The full impact of rate hikes had yet to be seen, and buyer demand would be further tested by an expected increase in homes for sale in spring.
Home buyer lending pulled back in June after the second cash-rate rise. The value of new owner-occupier loans dropped 3.3 per cent, and was 9.6 per cent lower than a year ago, Australian Bureau of Statistics figures released on Tuesday show.
Lending to first home buyers fell 10 per cent and was down 29 per cent year on year, while investor lending fell 6.3 per cent in June but was up 17.3 per cent over the year.
Westpac senior economist Matthew Hassan said the impact of rising rates in an already cooling market had been rapid. Areas with higher property prices had been most sensitive to increases, but the slowdown in prices was spreading and the full impact had yet to be seen.
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House prices have pulled back by more than $100,000 in Sydney’s inner west, northern beaches and north shore. (Domain)
Hassan expects the cash rate to peak at 3.35 per cent in February, and property prices nationally to decline 16 per cent from peak to trough, with Sydney and Melbourne to see falls closer to 18 per cent. Hobart and regional areas that had unprecedented growth throughout the pandemic, partly based on temporary shifts in population, may also be in for a hard landing.
Hassan said most households had substantial savings buffers that would put them in good stead to handle higher mortgage repayments. However, it would be a delicate balance for the RBA to slow demand and inflation while not triggering widespread problems for the housing sector.
Raine & Horne Lower North Shore partner Alex Banning said prices were correcting after a period of enormous growth and markets that had higher price rises had further to fall.
“The RBA gave people false hope when they said rates weren’t going to go up until 2023, 2024, so a lot of people just out took big loans… we saw exponential growth.”
The market had swung from one extreme to the other, he said. While prices were lower, most buyers were still having to compromise due to their reduced borrowing power.
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Most households had savings that will allow them to manage higher mortgage repayments. (Domain)
Shore Financial senior credit advisor Greg Bishop was seeing more clients put plans to purchase on hold.
“No one really knows where the market is going to end up,” he said. “Prices have backed off … which is good for a lot of buyers, but they’re also facing increasing interest rates.”
Some lenders were honoring existing pre-approvals, Bishop said, as long as there was no critical credit change such as an increase in the loan to value ratio. Others were reducing borrowing capacity for pre-approved clients.
He urged those with pre-approval to check with their lender before purchasing a home as some buyers were finding out afterwards that their new borrowing power had fallen short.
This story first appeared on The Sydney Morning Herald
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Australian tennis star John Millman sparked a fierce Twitter row with comments made about America’s COVID-19 rules.
The Aussie tour veteran suggested it was rich for the States to lock out Novak Djokovic over his vaccination status, while so many Americans seemingly struggle to abide by the laws themselves.
America requires tourists from outside the country to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before they can enter.
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The law means Djokovic is not able to compete at the US Open, which begins later this month. The Serbian champion was booted out of Australia at the start of this year for the same reason.
John Millman (Getty)
Millman – who has withdrawn from an ATP 250 event in Mexico after contracting COVID-19 – was obviously unimpressed by seeing people flout the rules.
“I was just in the states (sic) and it didn’t really feel like too many were following any recommendations or guidelines there,” he tweeted from isolation.
“Which is fine, but therefore I can’t see then why (Djokovic) can’t come and compete.”
The suggestion from Millman sparked a heated debate, with American followers unimpressed by his criticism of the rules as well as his push for Djokovic to play in New York.
I have later moved to clarify his tweet.
“Let me be clear, if everyone in the country was following guidelines then I’m all for them enforcing a vax entry policy,” he said.
“But from what I saw pretty much no one was, the tournament allows non-vaxxed (American) citizens to play and only 30 per cent have had a booster.”
The debate raged on despite his move to pour cold water on it.
Millman, 33, eventually got fed up with the replies.
“Twitter is full of people having all types of opinions on different matters but when an athlete has an opinion on something that is not to do with their sport they are told to ‘stick to your sport’,” he tweeted.
Last month it was reported thousands of people had signed an online petition calling for the US Tennis Association to allow Djokovic in to the country to play.
The US Open kicks off on August 29.
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When Neil Baker’s wife, Michelle, looked out the kitchen window at breakfast earlier this year, she spotted something unusual down towards the river flats on the family’s farm, in northern NSW.
Not quite able to make out what it was, she picked up a set of binoculars to get a closer look. What she saw was horrifying. “It was a wild dog, feasting on a ram that we had,” said Baker, a Tweed valley beef and pork farmer who also runs sheep.
A wild dog caught on camera in March.
The attack was one of dozens carried out by dogs and foxes on Baker’s property and on nearby farms in the past few years.
“They’re big, wild dogs,” Baker said. “They’re savage enough to take on cattle. The fact they’re now being seen during daylight shows how brazen they have become.”
Local Land Services, a government agency that helps landowners eradicate feral animals, said this year’s wet weather had led to a large increase in pest animal numbers. So far this year, the agency has culled 22,377 animals through aerial shooting operations, including more than 19,581 pigs. Last year, it culled 33,569 animals in total.
NSW Farmers said its members were also reporting an increase in wild pigs, dogs and cats. Deer were also encroaching on new territory.
A Local Land Services trapper during a pig-trapping operation in the Megalong Valley last year.Credit:Nick Moir
Brewarrina farmer Gerard Glover, who chairs the NSW Farmers Western Division Council, said he was braced for an increase in wild pigs and foxes on his land when the wetter weather, and they were forced further afield for food.
“The numbers are building. When it starts to dry out a little bit… the numbers are certainly there.”
Police are searching for a woman who was seen bleeding from her face and screaming for help inside a white tractor-trailer around 2:00 pm on Tuesday in Dayton, New Jersey.
A witness told the South Brunswick Township Police Department that the driver pulled the woman back inside the cab of the semi-truck as they drove south down Route 130.
A witness saw a bloodied woman screaming for help inside this white tractor-trailer on Wednesday afternoon, police said. (South Brunswick Township Police Department)
Surveillance video released by police shows the truck briefly stopping along the highway before driving away and taking the exit at Ridge Rd.
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The victim is described as a White/Hispanic female in her 20s with long brown hair and a brown flannel shirt. The suspect is an older bald White male with a white beard and blue shirt, according to police.
The semi-truck was driving south down Route 130 and took the Ridge Rd exit, according to police. (Google Maps)
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Mitsubishi says it has no plans to follow Honda and Mercedes-Benz with a fixed-price sales model in Australia, leaving room for customers to drive a bargain for the foreseeable future.
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Mitsubishi Australia says it has no plans to switch to a non-negotiable fixed-price new-car sales model, as research shows most buyers prefer the ability to negotiate a good deal.
Fixed prices for new cars were introduced locally by rival Japanese brand Honda in July 2021, and German manufacturer Mercedes-Benz in January 2022.
Mitsubishi Australia CEO Shaun Westcott told Drive at this week’s 2022 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV launch: “We have no immediate plans to change our (new-car sales) model in any way.
“We don’t have any preference for agency (the industry term for a fixed-price sales structure) and we haven’t got plans to go there at this point in time.
“I can’t say what the future holds because the world evolves, but we have no immediate plans and we’re not considering it.”
As previously reported by Drivethe Top 12 car companies in Australia say they have no plans to switch to a non-negotiable pricing structure.
The roll-out of fixed prices among a small number of car brands – which the industry refers to as an “agency” model because the dealers become selling agents under the new agreement, rather than owning the showroom stock – has been met with mixed success .
Sales of Mercedes-Benzes have increased since it went to the non-negotiable, fixed-price business model at the beginning of 2022, however Honda sales hit reverse since it made the switch in July 2021.
Supporters of the fixed-price approach say the new business model is designed to be fairer to customers who aren’t good negotiators.
However, detractors of the scheme say a fixed-pricing structure penalizes buyers who know how to drive a bargain, and limits the abilities of dealerships to offer sharp discounts – or generous trade-in valuations – to move metal.
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