JDgreen227
Super Member
My GF is currently an hour's drive away, trying to trade up her older car for a later model small SUV, and although I offered to go with her and deal with the salesperson, she told me she wanted the experience. Well, I think I know just about every trick in the book they use, like trying to sell you the extended warranty, asking you what you want to pay a month, making you wait in the hopes you will accept the lower trade in offer they come back with...well, every time the salesguy tries something like that, she texts me and gets my input about it....she has shot down EVERYTHING he has tried in the hopes of making a spiff, and when I told her to ask for a lower interest rate, she got him to knock off 2% ("Because my credit union offers loans at less than you do") :laughing:
While I am one of those guys who actually ENJOYS dickering about a major purchase because I usually know more about the product than they do...Example: Asked the salesman about the tow rating of a 3/4 ton truck I had been looking at....he answered, "I don't know for sure, let me look it up" and I told him "well, it's 8100 pounds with the 3.73 ratio and 10,000 pounds with a 4:10 ratio...." he acted like I was speaking Spanish...:laughing: I find any real product knowledge to be sadly lacking in most situations.
I have met a few, a very few, really good and capable salespeople in my life who actually took the time to KNOW the product they were selling AND have the common sense not to b*llshit a customer. Sadly, there seems to be a real dearth of qualified people and I am really sorry both my favorite salesmen are no longer in the business.
While I am one of those guys who actually ENJOYS dickering about a major purchase because I usually know more about the product than they do...Example: Asked the salesman about the tow rating of a 3/4 ton truck I had been looking at....he answered, "I don't know for sure, let me look it up" and I told him "well, it's 8100 pounds with the 3.73 ratio and 10,000 pounds with a 4:10 ratio...." he acted like I was speaking Spanish...:laughing: I find any real product knowledge to be sadly lacking in most situations.
I have met a few, a very few, really good and capable salespeople in my life who actually took the time to KNOW the product they were selling AND have the common sense not to b*llshit a customer. Sadly, there seems to be a real dearth of qualified people and I am really sorry both my favorite salesmen are no longer in the business.
