Is it worth having the commercial manager if you dont have the merchandise

Is it worth having the commercial manager if you dont have the merchandise? I'm paying 250,000 for a commercial manager and I  dont have any merchandise so does this mean im wasting money on wages or do I keep hold of the guy

I don't think it is worth having a commercial manager if you do not have the ability to sell merchandise, that's why I've just sacked my commercial manager. Plus I've heard that when the update comes the role of commercial manager will be removed, so you might as well get rid of them and save yourself some money.

You don't need a commercial manager -- you can visit my team profile and look at my hired staff, and I don't have one. The commerce features for iGP were never correctly developed.

I have a commerce facility though, but I never use it.

You do not need to give anything commerce related any attention — iGP developers have previously stated in other threads that it is going to be removed in the new version of iGP.

It then now begs the question of, do i downgrade all of my marketers as well. At the moment, I have 30 guys on there but now ive getting rid of the commerical manager, do I downgrade to 1 or 2 to then put the other 28/29 staff vacancies elsewhere?

Yes, they are better used under the chief designer or technical director. It is your choice where to allocate them.

Is that a bug?
If you can race without filling all the positions in the team then you only need to hire a designer & doctor?

I don't think it is a bug. Although, the checklist on the home page will never be fulfilled as it wants all driver and staff positions to be filled.

Very few players have lacked a technical director in this game because they have never switched engine and fuel suppliers and have either memorised or written down all the fuel consumption predictions and also use the same strategies every season.

I've been racing for more than one year now without a commcercial manager. I hire and fire them at the end of a season to flush out the league news tab when I renew all my contracts in an effort to keep my supplier combo a secret. 

I could also very well get rid of my technical director, which I will be doing sometime soon as I am currently writing down all of my technical director's fuel consumption predictions.

Can you still refit parts to the car without a tech? I forgot about that part engineers & mechanic's come under the tech and without him employed they wouldn't be there. ;)

You should be able to. There isn't some sort of lock in place saying that you need the tech to refit parts.