41.   Last year, car dealers offered freebies and discounts to prospective buyers, parting with a percentage of their own commissions.

42.   Many of these sitesare maintained by pen dealers offering their pens for sale.

43.   Other economists agreed and said discounting and other incentives offered by dealers and manufacturers explained a big increase in new car sales last month.

44.   The car dealer then could offer the customer the quoted finance rate or a higher rate, the lawsuits contend.

45.   Today dealers are offering it for free outside schools in a bid to hook new clients.

46.   Teo said Singapore last year completely liberalised its telecommunications market, allowing dealers to offer equipment ranging from telephones to facsimile machines and modems.