car salesmen?
04-03-2006, 11:49 PM
#21
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Re: car salesmen?
If you are an honest person who knows about cars and wants to get people into the right car for them, you will starve.
On the other hand, if you're a person with no concience whatsoever who has no problem selling people vehicles that will bankrupt them, then you will make a killing.
I've worked at dealers for the past 4 years, and there's only two types of car salesman. The kind who can sleep at night knowing what they've done, and the type who last 6 months 'cause they can't pay the bills.
On the other hand, if you're a person with no concience whatsoever who has no problem selling people vehicles that will bankrupt them, then you will make a killing.
I've worked at dealers for the past 4 years, and there's only two types of car salesman. The kind who can sleep at night knowing what they've done, and the type who last 6 months 'cause they can't pay the bills.
04-03-2006, 11:55 PM
#22
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Re: car salesmen?
Originally Posted by 96turboracer
If you are an honest person who knows about cars and wants to get people into the right car for them, you will starve.
On the other hand, if you're a person with no concience whatsoever who has no problem selling people vehicles that will bankrupt them, then you will make a killing.
I've worked at dealers for the past 4 years, and there's only two types of car salesman. The kind who can sleep at night knowing what they've done, and the type who last 6 months 'cause they can't pay the bills.
On the other hand, if you're a person with no concience whatsoever who has no problem selling people vehicles that will bankrupt them, then you will make a killing.
I've worked at dealers for the past 4 years, and there's only two types of car salesman. The kind who can sleep at night knowing what they've done, and the type who last 6 months 'cause they can't pay the bills.
04-04-2006, 12:01 AM
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Re: car salesmen?
The way I see it from the managers point of view is if Youre too nice ("Well, its ok Mrs Smith if you dont like the options than maybe you should wait till a better deal comes along, or maybe next years model will have the package you want, you dont have to get it now") Might get you fired.
But if youre too pushy ("Well Mrs Smith, how about this model, it may not have the package you want but it has this and this option that you might like, or this one, it has the package you want, but its $1999 more, we can work something out, Lets go to my desk and we can talk about this") This wont get you fired but the Customer will think youre a dick.
Sales is like Fishing, You sit there patiently till someone takes the bite, and when they do you lure them in. takes a special kind of person.
But if youre too pushy ("Well Mrs Smith, how about this model, it may not have the package you want but it has this and this option that you might like, or this one, it has the package you want, but its $1999 more, we can work something out, Lets go to my desk and we can talk about this") This wont get you fired but the Customer will think youre a dick.
Sales is like Fishing, You sit there patiently till someone takes the bite, and when they do you lure them in. takes a special kind of person.
04-04-2006, 01:20 AM
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Re: car salesmen?
Originally Posted by 91efate
sometimes its fun to go into showrooms and ask the dumbest looking salesman a shitload of questions about a car. i went to mistu to look at the new evo 9 and this ------ cooter was like the 9 has 6spd standard,vtec,carbon fiber roof,and then i said so do you think this car could do 10's off the showroom floor in stock trim........he very confidently says oh yea absolutely lol i had to stop there because at this point im laughing in his face. you should try
Originally Posted by 96turboracer
If you are an honest person who knows about cars and wants to get people into the right car for them, you will starve.
On the other hand, if you're a person with no concience whatsoever who has no problem selling people vehicles that will bankrupt them, then you will make a killing.
I've worked at dealers for the past 4 years, and there's only two types of car salesman. The kind who can sleep at night knowing what they've done, and the type who last 6 months 'cause they can't pay the bills.
On the other hand, if you're a person with no concience whatsoever who has no problem selling people vehicles that will bankrupt them, then you will make a killing.
I've worked at dealers for the past 4 years, and there's only two types of car salesman. The kind who can sleep at night knowing what they've done, and the type who last 6 months 'cause they can't pay the bills.
it just pisses me off. 15 minutes ago I was laying in bed trying to think of a way to get myself out of the $22,000 debt I'm in to my truck thanks to that mother ------- crooked car salesman. 
I went in hoping for a ~$300/month payment and walked out with a $528/month payment and no warranty. How the ---- does that happen? __________________
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04-04-2006, 09:59 AM
#27
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Re: car salesmen?
^ How did you get raped like that? You guys ever watch those dateline or whatever specials where they send a car buyer and an expert yo buy a car. It's so funny cause they'll walk in and be like ok, your going to give me $__ for my trade in and I am going to pay you $__ for ___. Take it or leave it.
04-04-2006, 12:30 PM
#28
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Re: car salesmen?
Thats what my father in-law is like. He's no holds barred. All or nothing. He'll leave and then in a day or so the dealership will call him back and tell him they'll go along with what he asked for but maybe like a couple dollars less then what he wanted for his car. Me I'm just like "yah I'll take whatever your gonna give me.. I just want the car I'm looking at" I had an interview once for a salesman position at a local Saturn dealership but I think I was too nice and not pushy enough. Thank god. I was unemployed at the time so I was up for anything.
04-04-2006, 03:50 PM
#29
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Re: car salesmen?
Honda stealership had a bunch of idiots working the floor. My parents bought a CRV last fall and I grilled the holy ---- out of the manager and salesman. We went to 4 different Honda dealerships (living in Chicagoland rocks as far as dealship options) and we ended up getting a Special Edition CRV (all options) with roof rack and running boards for 2 grand less than the lower trim without any options.
It took some creative wording of what one dealer offered and feeding that to the next and so on and so forth until I decided i was tired. Took 1 day to buy the car... all day.
Basically... if you get people like me coming in... you get fucked.
(My salesman used to be a mechanic supposedly and didn't know the difference between a D, B, H, or K motor. "We never really called them with those names." Didn't know what a D16y8 or a B18 was even though he "worked on em all the time." Then some other scumbag salesman tried to sell us some lame "teflon your car" BS package. I basically told him to back off the original salesman's sale and that if someone is stupid enough to buy that crap they should just hide the rest of their hard earned cash in a lit fireplace. Shortly after he said he had it and he was quite satisfied)
It took some creative wording of what one dealer offered and feeding that to the next and so on and so forth until I decided i was tired. Took 1 day to buy the car... all day.
Basically... if you get people like me coming in... you get fucked.
(My salesman used to be a mechanic supposedly and didn't know the difference between a D, B, H, or K motor. "We never really called them with those names." Didn't know what a D16y8 or a B18 was even though he "worked on em all the time." Then some other scumbag salesman tried to sell us some lame "teflon your car" BS package. I basically told him to back off the original salesman's sale and that if someone is stupid enough to buy that crap they should just hide the rest of their hard earned cash in a lit fireplace. Shortly after he said he had it and he was quite satisfied
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