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A car salesman pitch I never heard before. LOL

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FrustratedUser

Lifer
So I was cruising around getting to know my new town when I passed by the local Caddy dealer. I figured I'd take a look and see what they had since I've been looking at (maybe) getting a '99 or so Caddy STS/SLS.
I look around and they have a '01 so I go and have a look at it. Faster than you could say 'Hi' the salesman was there (as usual). This guy must have been a temp guy just for the summer. Looks to be in his early 20's with baseball hat and all (with suit LOL).

I ask him if I could take it for a spin. Sure enough I could.
We were then cruising along and he was going on with the usual sales BS.... until he said;
'Ya know, Caddys are real good solid cars. My dad had one and he ran it into a tree 4 times and it was still going strong"

Me: 😕'Umm, OK'
 
I can't stand salespeople. :thumbsdown:

Next time you go for a test drive, leave the salesman at the lot or tell him to sit in the back and STFU.
 
The majority of car salesmen are sorry mofos who couldn't get a job anywhere else.

Notice I didn't say all, just most.
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
The majority of car salesmen are sorry mofos who couldn't get a job anywhere else.

Notice I didn't say all, just most.
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The rest end up as lifers on AT...

😀
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: Skoorb
The majority of car salesmen are sorry mofos who couldn't get a job anywhere else.

Notice I didn't say all, just most.
Click to expand...

The rest end up as lifers on AT...

😀
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I'm neither a car salesmen nor unemployed 🙂
 
Originally posted by: KokomoGST
Originally posted by: Yossarian
should have crashed it and said "well, looks like you were wrong"
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LOL... "Looks like the tree won this time!"
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Yea, should have tested that feature for them. 😀

Actually the better reply would've been something like "Well, I prefer cars that handle/stop well enough to avoid the trees."
 
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
So I was cruising around getting to know my new town when I passed by the local Caddy dealer. I figured I'd take a look and see what they had since I've been looking at (maybe) getting a '99 or so Caddy STS/SLS.
I look around and they have a '01 so I go and have a look at it. Faster than you could say 'Hi' the salesman was there (as usual). This guy must have been a temp guy just for the summer. Looks to be in his early 20's with baseball hat and all (with suit LOL).

I ask him if I could take it for a spin. Sure enough I could.
We were then cruising along and he was going on with the usual sales BS.... until he said;
'Ya know, Caddys are real good solid cars. My dad had one and he ran it into a tree 4 times and it was still going strong"

Me: 😕'Umm, OK'
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tree = pwned
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: Skoorb
The majority of car salesmen are sorry mofos who couldn't get a job anywhere else.

Notice I didn't say all, just most.
Click to expand...

The rest end up as lifers on AT...

😀
Click to expand...

careful....you're getting close....😛
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
The majority of car salesmen are sorry mofos who couldn't get a job anywhere else.

Notice I didn't say all, just most.
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And some make some seriously big money. It's like all sales.


What FrustratedUser got was a really weak closing statement. To most people, it just sounds like he said something stupid, but from a sales perspective what he really did was concede unnecessarily a benefit about the product that was not only questionable but one that the customer did not ask or look for. Implied he was of genetically-inferior stock too. Pretty bad. Might have worked if he had interwined it into a good joke, but it doesn't sound like he did that.
Most salespeople that customers don't like are that way. They don't feel their customer or establish the proper relationship, and then in a moment of weakness they give up the farm unnecesarily and then wonder why the customer doesn't buy. Well, duh! Now they just started a game of "How low can you go?" and that never results in a satisfactory sale.
 
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