Stories from the Sales Frontlines

Replying to: british_rover (Mar 30, 2007 5:42 pm)

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Replying to: british_rover (Mar 30, 2007 5:42 pm)

I am getting the registration out of the glove box...
 
Is that business as usual, for the sales rep to search thru the customer's glove box? Not that I have anything to hide, but I much prefer to pull out necessary documentation myself, rather than have someone else do it for me. I also don't ever recall needing to show registration for a trade-in bid offer? Maybe I've been growing too much gray matter in my memory cells??
 
But I completely agree on the MDX price. Expecting $40,000 on an '06 MDX trade-in is ludicrous. That lady needs to realize she is driving at outdated model. The MDX was completely redesigned for 2007. According to Edmunds, the '07 MDX is "miles ahead of its predecessor", with much more luxury and performance than the previous design. I purchased an MDX brand new back in Fall of 2000, when they were first introduced. (Paid about $35K back then.) It was a great family hauler, but I can only imagine that design was growing long in the tooth by 2006.

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Replying to: british_rover (Mar 30, 2007 5:42 pm)

that cuts half inch long, nearly to the bone deep slash in my pointer finger.
  
Now I am bleeding all over the place but amazingly have not gotten it on her car.
 
The next time hold your finger high in the air over your head. The heart (and, of course, I'm assuming car dealers have a heart ) won't be pumping hardly any blood up that high...and you will have virtually no, or very little, bleeding even though the fingers are quite vascular.

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• british_rover (Mar 31, 2007 4:02 am)

Replying to: corvette (Mar 30, 2007 5:58 pm)

It was reported on the news this AM that a guy with a pet snake rented a car. When he came back to the car after a business stop he couldn't find the snake in the car and assumed it was stolen...and reported same to police.
 
Two weeks later when a kid at the car rental angency was cleaning out the car he opened the glove box and the snake wiggled out.
 
No doubt the kid is still drying out his pants.

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Replying to: rockfish1 (Mar 30, 2007 5:55 pm)

Rockfish, as the story is reported, no thats not legal to sign a persons name to a contract. But as in most cases there are two sides to all storys. But the towing the car to the house and dropping it off is over the edge.
 
There is a Local used car franchise here that in its hay day was notorious for doing everything that your not supposed to do. Forgery, bogus apps, wrecked cars, odometer roll back, the whole 9 yards. When I was in sales if you saw a car pull up with there name plate on there car you did your best not to be the one to greet them. They could clear the bench in 10 seconds.
 
Anyhow the story goes that a guy bought a truck from them, after a few days he figured out that they absolutley slayed him and that the truck had major problems. He takes it back and tells them to keep it. They tell him it is his truck, he says BS, and leaves the truck.
 
So they take his truck and park it in the turn lane of the very busy road in front of there dealership and call the police.
 
Over the years these guys have gone from having like 8 different stores to now having one small one. Hmmm wonder why

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