Entirely uninteresting
but along the lines of utterly pointless jobs, my brother was brielfy employed, as a summer job whilst at university, to drive brand new cars around for a few hundred miles, so they could be sold as second-hand cars.

I have absolutely no idea why this would make any sort of economical sense to anyone, anywhere, at all.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 22:13, 2 replies)

Possibly...
because if an official dealer can't shift their stock, 'nearly new' is a popular market and at least they have some money for the car rather than nothing. A bit like the dirt cheap off-peak tickets you get on trains and planes. Some income is better than nothing, even if you only break even.
( more balanced than jeremy beadle It wasn't me..., Thu 10 Jun 2010, 22:35, closed)

That makes sense...
but they were importing them (from Ireland, I think, which is a bad place to buy motors anyhow) with this in mind. They weren't just getting rid of old stock on the forecourt.

Good job if you can get it, though.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 23:02, closed)

it's so they can sell them as second hand
thus allowing them to maintain a high mark up on the brand spankers.
(boarders You won't catch me with my trousers, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 23:28, closed)