• breckenedge@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      You don’t need to be smart to be a car salesman. I think it may actually be a hindrance.

      I had a salesman tell me once that I could get a really good deal on an R32. Someone at the dealership took it out for a joyride and rolled it, but because it wasn’t insured, they slapped it back together and sold it with a clean title.

      Another time I had a sales guy try to sell me a truck with 100k miles put on it in 12 months with no maintenance records.

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        10 months ago

        You don’t need to be smart to be a car salesman. I think it may actually be a hindrance.

        When selling products where demand massively exceeds supply sales staff aren’t required at all.

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        I honestly wanted to walk when I heard that but my mom and her husband wanted to still give them a chance.

        You must be young. You need to find someone with sense to help you with the car buying process. Your mom and her husband are not it if they still hadn’t figured out the dealership and sales guy were shady at that point.

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        I swear half the popularity of Tesla is being able to avoid dealerships/saleslizards

        Previously we seemed to have decent luck at Toyota dealers but for one car we had such a bad experience that we went to a different dealer and said we’d be willing to pay more if the original saleslizard doesn’t get a commission.

        I definitely don’t even understand - when a customer has something very specific they’re looking for, how do you waste both your and their time and abuse the customer enough to lose an easy sale? I can see the attempt to upsell but come on, try something that might work

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        10 months ago

        They just don’t want to sell electric cars because they don’t get the long tail profits on oil changes and tune ups.

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        10 months ago

        He had also asked me about what I did for work and when I mentioned some of the stuff I did, he made a condescending remark to me too.

        Lol, car salesman making condescending remarks on someone else’s job! That’s the funniest shit I’ve read all day!

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      10 months ago

      Because this was during peak pandemic stock shortages when dealerships were selling everything they had with zero effort. They had a free years there where they had salesmen who never had to put any effort into selling a car.