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Re: This is [louiswei] by british_rover
Jul 31, 2006 (8:31 am)
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Replying to: louiswei (Jul 31, 2006 8:20 am)

Yeah there are certain little hints that people give when they are obviously shopping out of their league. I mean seriously though invoice n a BASE, and base here is deffinetly a relative term, big daddy full size Range Rover is around 71,000 dollars. And with only 13,000 or so of them imported each year no one is going to sell you a fresh no miles unit at any where near that. Now there are some Range Rover Demos floating around, we have one with 3,000 miles on it, so you might be able to get one of those for between 67,000 and 69,000 but come on that is chump change to these people.
 
Range Rover owners have an average income of over 250,000 dollars a year. Onf our customers is in the middle of buying a major league sports franchise for somewhere around 175 million dollars.
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Re: Another Sales Story [capitano] by moparchrisks
Jul 31, 2006 (8:59 am)
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Replying to: capitano (Jul 25, 2006 3:14 pm)

Perhaps, but a couple of dealers lost sales because of their sartorial prejudices.
 
Sartorial Prejudices. Would make a nice name for an underground death metal prog band.
 
In Los Angeles, whether selling cars or shopping at the grocery (or even out having a drink), celebrities and the more wealthy tend to dress undercover.
 
Holes in the knee of their jeans? Let's qualify the customer. Either they sleep in their car or they bought those jeans for $1500 at Fred Segal's on Melrose. Ripped t-shirt? Same $1500 on Rodeo Drive. Lesbian couples? Large numbers of lesbians buy automobiles. Especially in California.
 
Dirty and/or tangled damaged hair usually looked like a sale to me.
 
And of course, everyone owns a car and buys it from somewhere. Sonetimes two or more of them.
 
Sometimes, people walk in who do not own a car, and have never owned a car in the past and....buy a car.
 
And everyone has a story. Sometimes selling cars is like being a bartender or taxi cab driver.
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Re: This is [british_rover] by jmonroe
Jul 31, 2006 (9:21 am)
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Replying to: british_rover (Jul 31, 2006 8:31 am)

...Onf our customers is in the middle of buying a major league sports franchise for somewhere around 175 million dollars.
 
I know you can't say who this is nor should you. I think you are in CT, or at least that area, and since I'm in western PA, I'm pretty sure who this is and what he wants to buy.
 
No need to respond.
 
jmonroe
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Re: This is [jmonroe] by louiswei
Jul 31, 2006 (9:29 am)
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Replying to: jmonroe (Jul 31, 2006 9:21 am)

Something about hockey?
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Re: This is [louiswei] by thenebean
Jul 31, 2006 (9:48 am)
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Replying to: louiswei (Jul 31, 2006 9:29 am)

i think i hear the brass bonanza echoing from the past, getting louder and stronger as we speak!
 
im pretty sure we wont be seeing the whale back in good ol' CT anytime soon though...too bad!
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Re: This is [british_rover] by dc_driver
Jul 31, 2006 (10:09 am)
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Replying to: british_rover (Jul 31, 2006 8:09 am)

british_rover,
 
  That story is hilarious! The fact that she is concerned about doc fees and floor mat costs on a 70K vehicle is amazing (especially since she is planning on paying cash). But I do not doubt it for one second. My father builds very expensive custom homes, and you would be amazed when somebody puts a $500 refrigerator in a 3 million dollar house, and complains about the cost of the refrigerator.. Some rich people are just very funny when it comes to money.. Like they are always on the defensive, or looking for a great deal...
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Re: This is [dc_driver] by louiswei
Jul 31, 2006 (11:06 am)
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Replying to: dc_driver (Jul 31, 2006 10:09 am)

Maybe that's how they got rich in the first place...
 
Yes I know I am getting off-topic.
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Re: This is [dglozman] by jmonroe
Jul 31, 2006 (11:13 am)
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Replying to: dglozman (Jul 31, 2006 7:04 am)

the contract was signed and approved by both parties. Delivery was taken. THIS should be matter to the law , and not what other might think what is the reasonable price should be.
 
I'm sorry but I don't know what you're talking about here.
 
Have you ever heard stories about people buying priceless stuff at flea markets and garage sales?
 
Yes, but I thought we were talking about retail sales where things were put in writing and were way out of line with what is considered, by most reasonable people, as the norm.
 
jmonroe
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Re: This is [dc_driver] by mac24
Jul 31, 2006 (11:21 am)
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Replying to: dc_driver (Jul 31, 2006 10:09 am)

Some rich people are just very funny when it comes to money..
 
I'm funny when it comes to money, especially mine, and I'm not rich. I would think that it's even more important to a person when paying cash. An extra $100 might be justified as just a few cents more a month when buying on credit, but it's a real $100 when paying cash. You get the same amount of goods or services for $100 whether you're rich or poor.
 
If I ever become rich, I doubt that I'll consider money to be worth less to me than it is now.
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Re: obvious mistakes [tamaraster] by gsemike
Jul 31, 2006 (11:28 am)
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Replying to: tamaraster (Jul 31, 2006 7:37 am)

"This type of legal interpretation is there to protect everyone who enters into a contract. What if you bought a house and didn't notice that the final contract specified a price of 420K instead of 240K? Would you realy want to pay 200K extra just because you should have read more carefully?"
 
The difference is that this deal was consumated. In the above example, if that error wasn't caught until the end, I would not fork over the extra 200k and take the keys. In the Bill Heard example, everything was done.

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