by "BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather" (bugeyedacura)
Published 10/26/2017 at 20:27
by "BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather" (bugeyedacura)
Published 10/26/2017 at 20:27
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If I read one more time on Facebook where a car sales washout says “when I was in sales” or complain about the industry because they couldn’t cut it, I’m gonna start calling them out.
"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
10/26/2017 at 20:32, STARS: 0
Maybe if the cars weren’t bad more people would buy them
"Bourbon&JellyBeans" (bourbonandjellybeans)
10/26/2017 at 20:37, STARS: 1
This is...common?
"BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather" (bugeyedacura)
10/26/2017 at 20:38, STARS: 2
If the store average is 10, and even some people selling 20 every month, and you’re doing 2 a month, that’s not the product.
"random001" (random001)
10/26/2017 at 20:40, STARS: 3
I used to manage 1-3 sales. A year.
Granted, I used to sell equipment that cost $800,000 - $1.2M, so 3 was pretty good, but...yeah....
"BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather" (bugeyedacura)
10/26/2017 at 20:41, STARS: 0
Moreso than you think. The sheer number of dealerships in nova and my generation’s and the churn and burn mentality up here creates a lot of washouts. And I’m generally a likable fellow. So people always wanna add me on Facebook.
"BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather" (bugeyedacura)
10/26/2017 at 20:43, STARS: 0
That’s a little different...
And I’m sure no one else in your field was doing 20 units a month.
"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
10/26/2017 at 20:47, STARS: 0
I was shitty at selling cars, straight up. I have no charisma and do not know how to convince people unless it’s something philosophical. In 4 months of selling cars I think I sold 15-20 maybe.
"BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather" (bugeyedacura)
10/26/2017 at 20:49, STARS: 0
Do you regularly speak about your time in the business as if you were a grizzled veteran? Or approach life with a sense of entitlement that you have never once earned in said life?
If not, then you’re good.
"wafflesnfalafel" (wafflesnfalafel1)
10/26/2017 at 20:50, STARS: 0
A B C, Always Be Closing. (I’m a sh!tty closer... if the product is junky I have a really hard time convincing a customer it’s worth buying..)
"BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather" (bugeyedacura)
10/26/2017 at 20:52, STARS: 1
I feel like if you’re a car guy, you can find a nice part of any car.
"random001" (random001)
10/26/2017 at 20:52, STARS: 1
well, if you’re going to pick nits...
"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
10/26/2017 at 21:01, STARS: 1
I sold cars in Memphis. I sold at a well-known “wholesale-style” large scale local dealer. My customers usually had the sketchiest of financials situations. I am a Memphian but not a black memphian. This complicates things. I like cars as hobbies and think they are more than appliances. Low education, low income people do not think or feel this way. I am also physically intimidating.
All these things and a generally angry personality lend themselves to being a fucking awful salesman.
"DipodomysDeserti" (dipodomysdeserti)
10/26/2017 at 21:04, STARS: 0
People wash out of car sales? Where do they wash out to?.
"BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather" (bugeyedacura)
10/26/2017 at 21:23, STARS: 0
I’m pretty big myself and usually compensate by pushing out my drawl a bit more and play the aww shucks country boy up a bit more.
Getmedones are either a God-send or your worst enemy depending on the strength of your Finance department.
"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee)
10/26/2017 at 21:28, STARS: 1
BugEyedBimmer for President 2020
"BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather" (bugeyedacura)
10/26/2017 at 21:49, STARS: 0
Around here, the common excuse or cop out is “going back to school for IT”. Or they go back to whatever field flushed them out beforehand.
"BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather" (bugeyedacura)
10/26/2017 at 21:50, STARS: 2
I accept your nomination! Ask not, what Oppo can do for you! Ask what you can do for Oppo!
"Nibbles" (nibbles)
10/26/2017 at 21:59, STARS: 1
Back when I was in sales, I couldn’t cut it. So I went back to my previous career in IT.
Check all the boxes for ya?
"BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather" (bugeyedacura)
10/26/2017 at 22:04, STARS: 1
"Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)" (bman76-4)
10/26/2017 at 22:16, STARS: 1
Christmas tree sales.
"Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve)
10/26/2017 at 23:06, STARS: 2
Sales wasn’t for me. My personality didn’t fit with car sales so I lasted about six weeks and sold five cars. This was in 2000.
I find that I’m much more adept at getting people to buy into ideas than products. I’m also a natural performer. That’s why I’m back in school for my teaching degree.
Also, to paraphrase John Stuart Mill, most salesmen are not self-absorbed pricks, but most self-absorbed pricks are salesmen.
"My bird IS the word" (mybirdistheword)
10/26/2017 at 23:12, STARS: 2
WHEN I WAS IN CAR SALES EVERYTHING RAN WHEN PARKED GOOD SHAPE JUST NEEDS TLC
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
10/26/2017 at 23:24, STARS: 0
That worked out well tho BOI
"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
10/27/2017 at 08:06, STARS: 1
Is that really any different than the people in sales though? In my experience most sales people talk like grizzled veterans of a cut-throat industry with a sense of entitlement they have never once earned in life.
The only difference is one group complains about it, the other brags about it. All of y’all should just take a chill pill.
"Nibbles" (nibbles)
10/27/2017 at 08:08, STARS: 0
One of the few good decisions I’ve made, yeh.