Face it, car salesmen are among the most hated of all people. They are the lowest in the caste structure of any economy or social structure out there. Banks discriminate against us, customers lie to us and treat us with contempt, and we have to work on weekends! On a daily basis, a sales guy will endure 7 hung up phone calls, 16 people ignoring you completely, and 34 insults directed at their mothers (numbers may vary).
My favorite is when customers show up just minutes before closing time, expecting...no, demanding to test drive cars. Their purpose, you might ask? Well, it's certainly not to buy a car. They come to enact vengeance upon the mighty salespeople by keeping them after hours. By the end of the day, we're tired, grumpy, and ready to go home. We've already been beat up more times throughout the day than the worst UFC fighter has in his career, and no one, I repeat, no one, is going to hassle us on price EVER AGAIN!
With so many people trying to steal our cars for thousands less than what we ask, it's easy to get frustrated and defensive. I guess it's difficult sometimes to understand what "wholesale value" means. By the way, it's the price dealers pay for cars at auctions, or from one another. When we advertise a car that's being sold near or under wholesale value, that's a good thing, and please don't try to chop down the price much more than that. If you do, you're probably the type of person who wouldn't know a good deal if it ran you over.
A suggestion to you is this: show up early in the morning while we're happy and groggy. You might even get us to slip and come off the price a bit more. Make our day and buy a car early, and avoid waiting all day to come in at closing time. I don't believe that "buyers are liars," like the other places say, but please don't make me think that way. I think buyers are...flowers!
Just don't judge me for what I am. I hate those wishy-washy, slick haired, gold totin' salesmen just as much as you do, if not more. I'm not like them. They scare me, and I still beat myself up over buying a car from one of the "big guys." Those guys you can take advantage of, lie to, spit upon, etc. The government already has with the cash for clunkers deal, since they haven't paid them for 90% of the trades they've taken in. I say it serves them right; karma, baby!
-Biggs
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I was very entertained by the "flowers"
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