# used car dealer talk **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Automotive\ **Created:** [October 30, 2013, 11:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/used-car-dealer-talk/267908 "2013-10-30T11:50:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![love4boost](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/love4boost/32/6658_2.png) [@love4boost](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/love4boost)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/used-car-dealer-talk/267908/15 "2013-10-31T08:52:03Z")
> [@Who's been to Put-in-Bay?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whos-been-to-put-in-bay/53606/15): > > dont get me wrong, i was not calling you a hack or trying to say anything negative about your business,i was just giving my insight from personal experience. the examples you gave are not hack work, i would say they are smart business decisions right now given the economy and the fact that you are a new dealer, but i would recommend that as your business grows and you start selling better cars worth more money to people who are looking for a good vehicle, to step up to remanned or new parts (junkyard body stuff is fine though as long as it’s in good condition), simply because if you build a reputation with your customers for going the extra mile to have better quality parts…your business will grow and be much more successful than if you were putting junkyard parts on cars you plan on selling for a 4,000 or 5,000 dollar markup…you obviously know your shit when it comes to making money, i’ve just been seeing the place i used to work for struggle for about 6 years now and the owner is doing shit just as cheap today as he did when he first started out, (it worked for him then but now that people expect more it’s not working out too well and he’s beeni dumping money into the business to keep it from failing completely) The building I am buying which means I will be there for years to come is in a neighborhood of low income to average working class people… There will never be demand for 10k+ cars here… $2-5k cars are what sells, and what sells QUICK… To add, others may think differently, but the car sale business in my opinion is nothing like any other where reputation prevails… Its really not… Real estate you need to have a good name, pawnshop most of the time need to have a good name, restaraunts need to have a good name… How I myself and how I’ve seen others find a car is either an internet search, or a drive by seeing a PARTICULAR car they want to purchase… Maybe you guys have, but I have never nor have I seen someone see an AWESOME laguna seca blue m3 that is at the top of there list to buy, cash and hand and say… “ahhhhh, cant buy it because so and so dealer is selling it, nevermind” thats just my $0.02 --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/used-car-dealer-talk/267908)._