"WhiskeyGolf" (whiskeygolf)
12/06/2014 at 14:07 • Filed to: None
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"WhiskeyGolf" (whiskeygolf)
12/06/2014 at 14:07 • Filed to: None | 0
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Like most Jalops I suspect, I like to check out other cars and see what's out there. Today I discovered a local Hyundai / GM dealership had set up a showroom inside the local mall so I sat in a Veloster and Cruze to see what's what. I chatted briefly with a sales rep and when I left I had a thought that it must be annoying to constantly gauge how serious buyers are. Add the fact that you can't really dismiss anyone and it must be rather tiring.
Tina Corbett
> WhiskeyGolf
12/06/2014 at 14:15 |
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Yes, it's tiring. I mean...in my dealership we're sort of a ways away from anything. And we still get the daily looker who'll sigh, and shuffle and won't buy.
So, you came all the way here in the rain and the sleet, sat in the car, test drove it...haggled for a half hour and you "Just don't know man."
Well what the fuck DO you know?? Why come out here? There's our Jaguar/Porsche dealer next door if you just want to look and dream.
We don't get an hourly wage, so you just took me away from a possible sale because you were bored and needed to get out for the day.
Grr.......
Funktheduck
> Tina Corbett
12/06/2014 at 14:21 |
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When I was doing my initial car research I liked the guy at the Mazda dealership enough to call him back a couple months later just so he could get the commission from me and not some other guy who just happened to be working that day.
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Tina Corbett
> Funktheduck
12/06/2014 at 14:27 |
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Oh, that's fine. If a customer tells me they're just looking, or really NOT buying for a few more months, I still help them. I appreciate the honesty.
It's the dude who comes in and has no intention of actually buying now OR later and doesn't say it that peeves me off.
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Funktheduck
> Tina Corbett
12/06/2014 at 14:33 |
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The guy at the ford dealership wouldn't allow that through his head. He kept trying to push a focus in a trim, color, interior, and transmission I didn't want. He was so sleazy I didn't even want to continue the test drive with him. He called me at least once a week for about a month. Even if I did want the car I wouldn't have bought it from him. I would have picked any random person in a tie in the showroom before him.
jvirgs drives a Subaru
> WhiskeyGolf
12/06/2014 at 14:53 |
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Im always up front with sales people that I am not looking to buy and just here for fun.
banjo cat ghost of oppo past
> WhiskeyGolf
12/06/2014 at 17:12 |
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Welp if you don't approach every person you talk to as a prospective sale even if you're positive that person is full of shit or just not interested, then at the very least you're in for a condescending lecture by the sales manager. More usually its the asshat assistant s/m, ooor eeeeven worse yet... the young, crack salesperson from the other side of the dealership who sells completely different cars and assumes Audi buyers are the same as Kia buyers or visa versa and insists "awh dude I bet you I could've totally sold that teenager on that Mercedes minivan...you could tell he was lookin' to buy"
NJAnon
> WhiskeyGolf
12/12/2014 at 19:20 |
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Its a 2 way street. Tiring for the salesperson. Tiring for the buyer. We're at an impasse.