Dying to get a 2014 Cadillac CTS in your driveway but can’t quite scrape the cash together? Fear not, for eBay motors might have a solution for you. The online auto marketplace is offering its users the chance to win a 2014 Cadillac CTS Premium with their Ultimate Motors Giveaway.
To enter to win the CTS, you must sign up for eBay if you don’t have an account. Then upload a photo of your car to the eBay Motors Garage website and you’re automatically entered into the draw and are one step closer to getting behind the wheel of the sharp new sedan. The prize CTS appears to be nicely appointed, with a Red Obsession Tintcoat exterior, Jet Black interior and 19-inch 10-spoke wheels.
If you don’t win the Cadillac, you also have a shot at winning an Indian Chief motorcycle and 1 of 10 $100 eBay gift cards. You might want to hurry up though, the draw ends on April 11.
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I don’t think any Cadillacs should be given away in a contest. They aren’t the kind of car to be won by mere chance by anyone; they are suppose to be cars of status and image that are only obtainable by those with discriminating tastes.
Luxury buyers wouldn’t wait for a contest to award them a CTS. They would simply go out and buy one.
Hey Grawdaddy: Go sit down.
If you have difficulty coming to grips with the definition of a luxury product, then you shouldn’t have unreasonable expectations of owing one. I believe you American’s call that ‘entitlement’, and NOBODY is entitled to a Cadillac anymore than they are ‘entitled’ to a Mercedes.
Luxury products pride themselves on being exclusive and difficult to obtain; they give the owner something that other more common products do not offer. This contest defeats that idea, and debases Cadillac from being a luxury product.
DAMN that red looks good there…
Wow Grawdaddy, aren’t you all high and mighty! You know, years ago, I could only afford one jar of peanut butter, jelly and bread and eat one sandwich a day while hitting the streets looking for a job. I was a young divorced mother and I would take my daughter around to visit my relatives at the times, I knew they were about to sit down to eat so she could get at least two meals a day. I would be so upset so see people in front of me at the grocery store buying steaks with food stamps and welfare checks. I would pay for my 3 items, go out the store and see the same people with the food stamps get into a Cadillac. I guess they were people of ‘discriminating taste’ who could afford the Luxury Car, after all, they were Luxury Buyers! They could afford it, now what did that make me? Well Sir, I for one, would sell that Luxury Car of high status and image to someone like you that could afford that Luxury Car! Or maybe Sir, you are not that Luxury Buyer for if you were you would not have entered in this contest and put your comment out there. Go figure!!
You don’t get it.
Luxury is about having something to benefit your life that isn’t as freely available to others. Having steak every night is a luxury for some, but it’s not a luxury to those who’s discriminating tastes regularly consumer foie gras.
And it doesn’t end with what someone eats. What they drink, wear, do, and drive, and where they live are all matter with which luxury can be a factor that sets its owner apart from the ordinary. A Cadillac who’s owner uses food stamps isn’t expressing luxury, it expresses the mundane and the common. It doesn’t help the owner when the product (a 1991 Fleetwood) is said to be a luxury when in fact it was garbage right from the factory.
Being able to own that thing is a different matter. A old Fleetwood in 2014 means nothing to a luxury buyer as it isn’t rare or particularly special. Owning one isn’t particularly difficult, or impressive. You’d have a point if the food stamp user got into a 2014 CTS vSport, but I very much doubt their Cadillac was newer than 2010.
Luxury is about hedonism, not appearing to be worth more than your net worth.
Also, don’t confuse discriminating with discrimination; they mean two completely different things.
“Or maybe Sir, you are not that Luxury Buyer for if you were you would not have entered in this contest and put your comment out there. ”
What? Do you even think about what you mean to say before you type? GMA is not holding the contest, and I’ve not entered into it. Fool.
To those who don’t get it, I take it the ‘Poolside’ ad “offended” you, even though it’s closer to what having any luxury product is about.
Luxury, like respect, is earned and not handed out. Nobody will lower the luxury bar for you so that you can hop over it.