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Replying to: alejandrom (Nov 28, 2008 1:54 pm) Remind me to stay away from your store. I thought the guy asked a reasonable question and simply opined that the price and mileage were incongruous. It's not like he was insulting your mother or giving you an obscene hand gesture. tidester, host SUVs and Smart Shopper
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Replying to: tidester (Nov 28, 2008 5:21 pm) Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. Richard, ASC for Edmunds
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Replying to: boomchek (Nov 28, 2008 12:24 pm) Last year there was a video played that showed an elderly person being stampeded on, upon a store opening their doors. I blame Wally World. They better than anyone should understand the extent of human greed. The victims family will sue for millions of dollars, and get it. |
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Replying to: madmanmoo (Nov 28, 2008 10:49 am) Something tells me this "Won't be like Germany"....  GP |
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Your profession is not the only one with customers who think that they know more than you do. On a bumper sticker- People that think they know it all really annoy those of us that do.
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Replying to: madmanmoo (Nov 28, 2008 6:54 am) That is very cool M, Please post a short trip report when you get back. Thanks. |
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Replying to: alejandrom (Nov 28, 2008 2:03 pm) Well, when this "single male" starts shopping for the wife's new TL or Maxima next summer I will most certainly do the initial leg work by myself before asking her to come along. I will have culled all of the "hard sell" dealerships, the salesmen who can't get out of "Sales Seminar 101" mode, and the SM's whose best offer is $400 off sticker when the going rate is $400 under invoice. No need to drag the wife along for the dog and pony show and no need to pawn my son off on a family member/babysitter for an exercise in frustration. When I have found the dealer/salesman/price that I like, she will at that point come out and test drive the two, make her choice, and point to the desired color. Done deal. Regardless, this "single male" will be in a Ford F150 if shopping locally or a stunning example of a 93 Ford Taurus wagon, teal over tan cloth, if I happen to be working in Atlanta at the time. (I'm sure the Acura guys will summersault right out the showroom door when I drive up in that piece.    ) All kidding aside though, it seems that you are burned out -- either at this particular store or with the profession as a whole. Hope it gets better for you; been there, done that and it isn't fun! Welcome to Edmunds, BTW.
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Replying to: mako1a (Nov 28, 2008 9:13 pm) "As a matter of fact I do know it all, I just can't remember it all at once."
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Replying to: traindriver (Nov 27, 2006 2:37 am) |
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Replying to: tidester (Nov 28, 2008 5:21 pm) On the contrary, that's exactly what he was doing. By turning and walking away without comment he used his body language to dismiss alejandron and tell him he was nothing. The dismissive hand gesture might just as well been "the finger" for what it conveyed. That's why I couldn't be a car salesman. I'd end up in jail. 
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