a dealer on oliver while i was in NT,(yeah why was i shoppin there idk) i get there, cars only 3500 for a 97 talon, 2 years ago, very cheap for a dealer, i drive it, makes some noise, nothing bad. I ask whats wrong with this car, “Absolutly NOTHING wrong”. i’m like ok, but im gonna have it checked out. I was pretty serious about it so I took it for inspection, the mechanic comes out with no lie over a printed page of things wrong with the car and he wasnt done yet. He said this car is in no way street legal and should not be driving. drop paper off at dealers and leave.
Then I get a call, it was the assistant manager, ? , right, so he says don’t buy the car, its not worth it i dont like my manager and i no the cars broken.
2 days later, I get a call from him again… Well since you really want it, I can go to 2300, theres barely anything wrong with the car, we’ll put on new tires! (all that was wrong with it were the piston rings, whole front suspension, right back linkage and suspension, paint job, battery, interior, i think tranny, brakes,list goes on)
[font=Verdana][font=Verdana][size=2]looking at a 2006 TSX for my fiance @ ray laks:
saleswoman: oh it has heated seats and mirrors, memory seats… me: does it have a heated steering wheel?
saleswoman: oh no, only lexus and bmw have those. me: uh… my maxima right there outside the window has a heated steering wheel… :gotme:
saleswoman: …
this was after she told me that the 2006 maxima doesn’t compete with the TSX because it’s not a ‘luxury’ car. lol, yokay.
[font=Verdana]i also enjoyed listening to another salesman tell a customer how ‘new’ and ‘innovative’ it was that you could roll down the windows with the transmitter. :lol: i wanted to say “yeah my 1996 maxima did the same thing; this car is what, 10 years newer?” lol[/font]
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me:can you get me one of these in white?
sales: we can get you anything you want. even a brand new ferrai enzo.
me: arent you supposed to buy a few differant ferraris before youre qualified for the enzo? and i thought all of them were custom tailored to the drivers by ferrari.
sale: yeah we can skip all that because we a dealership.
me: oh ok.
lea honda (shudder) looking at a 95 tbird supercoupe a few years ago
me: I’m intrested in the SC you have on the lot
some hot chicka sales woman: the what?
me: the red thunderbird
her: oh, yeah… it’s in great condition
me: cool, how much you looking to get for it?
her: 6500
me: thats alot for that old of a car
her: yeah, but it’s fast
me: ok… can I take it for a spin?
her: yeah… just dont abuse it
pull out and take off spirited lol
come back
her: well? what do you think?
me: I like it… it’s got some problems though that I’d want fixed IF I decided to take it
her: not a problem, it’s been well cared for
I look under the hood and notice ALOT of orange peel on the strut tower and what looked like some gummy shit hiding a weld.
me: whats that? looks like it’s been wrecked before
her: oh, thats just how these cars are built
I look back at my 89 supercoupe and look at her
me: oh yeah?
her: ehhh…
lol fast forward two weeks, I end up talking a local tbirder, whos wife happens to work at Lea honda, and he informs me that it was wrecked pretty bad (he went to look at it too).
go into the stealership
her: welcome back, so are you gonna take it?
me: not for that price
her: what are you looking to spend?
me: I dont know… who fixed that car?
her: what do you mean?
me: the body shop who fixed it
her: it’s never been wrecked
me: an employee here told me that it was… pretty bad infact
her: uhhhh…
no effect on the vehicle what-so-ever…The only thing you could really fuck up is if you really go into it and fucked the suspension or suck at driving and fuck up the clutch…
My car is fine, as fast if not faster than the average stock EVO, and the first time i put it in gear it went to redline.
I :lol: at people who follow the by the book “I don’t want to rev it” shit…I mean when you pull the car off the lot it, even w/ 0 miles, it’s not the 1st time the motor has been run…
dude that ws6 i knew the kid that had that car, it was totalled it needed 8,000 worth of work to fix it… i test drove it just for fun. The BALD tires were an def indication the car was beatin on
I was at an acura dealership down here sitting in a TSX with my grilfriend. I was shifting through the gears and the salesman says “Please don’t shift the car with it off” I look at him like he is crazy and leave.
It pisses me off the most car dealers don’t know their shit. My gf bought a new car last summer. During the course of many test drives, I only ran into 1 guy (worked at Northtown Jeep) that actually knew his shit - and not just about the jeeps, but about other manufacturers that Northtown deals with. He was a true salesman - not a waste of space like the rest of them. Is it too much to ask that you know a little about what you are selling me??? If you work at a honda dealer, then all you need to know about is Civic, Accord, CRV, S2K, Odyssey, Ridgeline, Element, Insight, Pilot, and Fit. That’s 10 cars. While they sit on their ass all day, they should read the brocures that they pass out. Anyone that has worked in a sales field will know that knowledge is key to performance. And 10 products is easy compared to what I needed to know when I was in computer sales.
One of my first jobs was selling Nissans back in like 97. I studied my ass off! I researched micropolishing and liquid filled engine mounts. I had the hardest time getting someone to explain to me how a viscous limited slip differential worked.
What did customers want to know about?
Power windows, locks, keyless entry, sunroof, CD player and floormats.
For every stupid salesman, there are a hundered stupid customers. To be honest, a good salesperson knows more about people than they do about their product. Usually they only know enough about their product to sell it to their average customer.