I swear to the Heavens above

"BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather" (bugeyedacura)
10/26/2017 at 20:27 • Filed to: None

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.

DISCUSSION (25)

For Sweden > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather
10/26/2017 at 20:32

Maybe if the cars weren’t bad more people would buy them

Bourbon&JellyBeans > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather
10/26/2017 at 20:37

This is...common?

BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather > For Sweden
10/26/2017 at 20:38

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 > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather
10/26/2017 at 20:40

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 > Bourbon&JellyBeans
10/26/2017 at 20:41

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 > random001
10/26/2017 at 20:43

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 > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather
10/26/2017 at 20:47

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 > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
10/26/2017 at 20:49

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 > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather
10/26/2017 at 20:50

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 > wafflesnfalafel
10/26/2017 at 20:52

I feel like if you’re a car guy, you can find a nice part of any car.

random001 > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather
10/26/2017 at 20:52

well, if you’re going to pick nits...

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather
10/26/2017 at 21:01

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 > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather
10/26/2017 at 21:04

People wash out of car sales? Where do they wash out to?.

BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
10/26/2017 at 21:23

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 > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather
10/26/2017 at 21:28

Kinja'd!!!

BugEyedBimmer for President 2020

BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather > DipodomysDeserti
10/26/2017 at 21:49

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 > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
10/26/2017 at 21:50

I accept your nomination! Ask not, what Oppo can do for you! Ask what you can do for Oppo!

Nibbles > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather
10/26/2017 at 21:59

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 > Nibbles
10/26/2017 at 22:04

Kinja'd!!!

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > DipodomysDeserti
10/26/2017 at 22:16

Christmas tree sales.

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather
10/26/2017 at 23:06

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 > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather
10/26/2017 at 23:12

WHEN I WAS IN CAR SALES EVERYTHING RAN WHEN PARKED GOOD SHAPE JUST NEEDS TLC

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Nibbles
10/26/2017 at 23:24

That worked out well tho BOI

Jayhawk Jake > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather
10/27/2017 at 08:06

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 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
10/27/2017 at 08:08

One of the few good decisions I’ve made, yeh.