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Replying to: alejandrom (Nov 25, 2008 11:53 pm) Where have you been all this time..... I am laughing very hard because Iagree with you. It is like one day.... all of a sudden....a husband was out driving and he saw a Toyota dealership. he went in and ask to look at the Camry.... how he knew to look at a camry is beyond me... But I can only relate it to my marriage.... When we bought our last car for her. It went like this.... Weeks before the purchase.... she said the car is acting up I would like a new car. We talked about how much we could spend. We talked about what was important. So now we had a idea of what we wanted to do and need. A car came in on trade for a couple of grand. I bought it day and brought it home. Maybe it is easy because i am in the business. But I can't believe people don't actually talk about these things before they come into the store. Every one hates coming here and everyone likes to share their ideas with other people before they do it. Just some... a lot of people just can't pull the trigger.... Why can't everyone be like JMONROE  GP
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Replying to: greanpea68 (Nov 26, 2008 11:32 am) I don't hate coming there because I am not afraid of you and I know it's my money.
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Replying to: golic (Nov 26, 2008 6:07 am) Yes but you have to pay to get into a strip club and you have to pay premiums on the drinks. GP |
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Replying to: smithed (Nov 26, 2008 11:35 am) Well thank God you are not afaraid of me... I have been told I am a very nice person....  GP |
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I had a reporter come by because of the 2 for 1 promo I'm running on cars. He asked me a bunch of stuff, took some pictures (of cars and of me), asked me how business is, and went away. I like free publicity  It's not the first time for me. Years ago I did a TV interview on hybrids when I worked at Honda. We drove around for 20 minutes and I answered a bunch of questions, only to be seen for a whole 10 seconds 
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Replying to: alejandrom (Nov 26, 2008 10:41 am) Fantastic idea for a show. Lots of good material right from here, people wanting 0% financing, men having to ask their wive's opinion, kids barfing in the showroom......... |
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Replying to: boomchek (Nov 26, 2008 12:37 pm) Good cheap advertising. You got the right idea boom....everything helps. Whatever happened to those ads with the come on down and take a few swings with a sledge hammer to this car? That might bring them in.
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Replying to: exb0 (Nov 26, 2008 10:42 am) Don't you know, that's how they pre-qualify you. If you stand there like a fool they know you are a laydown. If you wander away and get lost you are not smart enough to read the fine print on the finance agreement. If you start crying, well, you've given the sales staff a good time betting how long you would wait out there. The only way to counter this technique is to storm back into the showroom and start throwing furniture around and screaming "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore".  Seriously though, It does seem that "the wait" is part of the sales experience. When I last purchased my salesman disappeared into the back room for quite a while. I imagined he was in a football huddle with the whole sales team figuring out how they would play me. I decided to counter this by looking bored, stealing coffee from the manager's office and finally walking out of the store and strolling around the parking lot. This got the desired result as my salesman came running out and told me how sorry he was for making me wait. They were out with an offer 30 seconds later.
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Replying to: golic (Nov 26, 2008 10:07 am) Since the first cave man built the first wheel to to trade for 3 fur pelts they have been there. A guy who knows it takes 3 furs to buy a wheel but don't have any. The thing that keeps you going in this biz is hope. The hope that you can turn a squirrel into a buyer. It happens occasionally, that is why we all hang in there with them every day. On days when there is a larger amount then usual on the lot my GM will ask who ran into the oak tree down the street and knocked all the squirrels out.
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Nov 26, 2008 2:25 pm) Richard |
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