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Replying to: obyone (May 17, 2008 11:06 pm) 
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Replying to: greanpea68 (May 18, 2008 8:02 am)  Mack
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Replying to: laurasdada (May 18, 2008 7:22 pm) Major Mets fan. BR - you anywhere near New Britain? Always a good minor league town. |
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Replying to: laurasdada (May 18, 2008 11:42 am)  And don't get me started on the Billecheat team, that's for another day. \
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Replying to: richard64 (May 18, 2008 5:34 pm) Where did you order them from? are these collector plates? They seem awful expensive to me. Mack
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Replying to: jkinzel (May 18, 2008 6:27 pm)  
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Replying to: richard64 (May 18, 2008 5:34 pm) Neal Diamond is coming to the Burgh again and ‘you know who’ said the tickets are something like $125 EACH. We like the guy and we’ve gone to several of his concerts over the years. The last time was about 3 or 4 years ago and the ticket price then was something like $75 each. The mistake we made was to let the couple we were going with make the reservations on their CC. They did but they did it very late (price was the same) and we were so far away as far as I was concerned that could have been a chimpanzee up there playing a CD cause I wouldn’t have know the difference. I don’t think we’re going this time; it’s gotten way out of hand. I told Mrs. Richard that we would park just beyond the parking lot on the street, roll down the windows, and listen really hard. Look who’s turned into a tight a$$ now. I’m betting your ears ain’t nearly that good.  jmonroe
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Replying to: mackabee (May 18, 2008 8:00 pm) Good night Mack.   jmonroe |
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Yesterday was a beautiful day here in VaBeach. Sunny, not too hot, low 70's with a cool breeze. Most customers were probably doing yard work or at the beach so traffic was not steady. Few customers here and there. I helped Lucky with a customer as he was tied up with another customer. Nice couple, school teacher and wife works at the Naval base with the Navy College. So both are in the education field. Their daughter was very animated and talked our ear off, she was rather cute and sweet. We drove a Hybrid Camry and after the test drive when I went for the close they did their usual: "We don't have time, we have to be somewhere." and "I have to go home and do my research." What research? Hybrids are going for full pop right now. We are fortunate to have a few hybrid Camrys in stock. The Prius is all sold out for the next two months. So the husband is salivating over the car and is copying the options off the sticker."So how much can you come off the price.?" he asks. "If you are ready to buy I may be able to get you at least $500.00 depending on how motivated the sales managers are to move the car. I will tell you this though, we have been selling all hybrids at list since gas prices started going through the roof." He gets away from the price issue and I ask him what time frame are they looking at to make a decision. "It will be this month." he says. His wife then asks me "Are you open on Memorial day?, we probably won't be able to make it back until then." "How about during the week?" I ask. "We both work." she replies. "Yes, but I'm sure both of you get off around 4 or 5pm right.?" I ask again. "We are very busy during the week." she replies. So I've asked for the sale more than 5 times and I'm getting nowhere so I decide to end the conversation. "Ok, did Lucky get your information? name, phone number, etc.? I ask. "We gave him our phone number. I don't know if he remembers it or not." the husband replies. I take down their home phone and say bye to them. I go back into the showroom and look him up and Lucky never put him in the data base. No problem. He did ask me for help so it's not like I'm taking the whole deal if they buy. Mack |
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Replying to: mackabee (May 18, 2008 7:37 pm) Please allow 3 to 5 weeks for delivery. And I take it you didn't bother to check exactly what parts are offered? When I checked most of it says "no parts available". Oh well someday.. BTW, not to change the subject but how are the Sequoia and Tundra sales? Land Cruiser? Just curious as I haven't seen any in your sales stories lately or was it for awhile?
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