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Replying to: houdini1 (Nov 11, 2009 5:56 am) Richard |
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Replying to: isellhondas (Nov 11, 2009 11:01 am)
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Replying to: dtezla (Nov 11, 2009 12:25 pm) |
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Replying to: richard64 (Nov 11, 2009 12:19 pm) 
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Replying to: richard64 (Nov 11, 2009 11:52 am) And, that infers that when I am bad, I am really bad. But, let me know when you are barbequing those steaks, we'll be there. We'll bring our trailer home and hook up to your electricity and plumbing. Just joking, but once we had a guy at a place where I worked and he would visit people unannounced and hook up his mobile trailer to their house, and park in their driveway. |
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Replying to: driver100 (Nov 11, 2009 1:09 pm)
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Replying to: houdini1 (Nov 11, 2009 1:25 pm) I DID see that movie and I continue to see it after Christmas dinner at my brothers house EVERY Christmas (family ritual). That movie is the definition of a CLASSIC. jmonroe |
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Replying to: isellhondas (Nov 11, 2009 12:08 pm) I can only imagine what you guys see when people trade in their cars. When I see cars with trash in them of all types when walking through parking lots and body parts hanging on for dear life by the last remaining clip (sometimes duct tape), I just have to think of you guys. I was accused of being a meanie for not allowing my sons to eat/drink ANYTHING in my cars. I don’t think they lost any weight because of it either. Since I was the one who cleaned the cars I got to call the shots about that. When 2 and 3 year old cars look like they’re 15 years old, I’d say this is a time when you CAN judge a book by its cover.  jmonroe |
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A little while ago my wife pulled me away from my important work of scanning used car listings to watch Dr. Phil. She saw the "are you crazy?" look on my face and said: "You'll like this, it's about car buying". I almost knocked her down trying to get to the TV. It seems Dr. Phil was doing a show on negotiating. In this segment he was talking about how women are afraid to negotiate the price of a car. He interviewed a number of women who said they were uncomfortable asking for a lower price because they didn't want to hurt the salesman's feelings or that they thought MSRP was the price they were supose to pay. Dr. Phil then took a woman to the famous Tobin Dodge (King of Cars). Her name was Kirstie (do I smell an Edmunds plant?) . First they let a man go in and negotiate. He did the typical things : he did his research so he knew what the price should be, he got them to install a bunch of free options and at the end he got some free oil changes. Then they sent Kirstie in and she basicly took whatever Chop said she should. He had to tell her about the rebates and that the car and been advertised for $2K less than she agreed to. She was such a good sport about it all that Chop GAVE her the car for free in the end. I found the show was kind of insulting to women. Dr. Phil even got one woman to say: "I think we women should just hire a man to do all the car buying" (are you listening GG?). Certainly the women I've talked to on Edmunds are not this clueless. Do you salespeople run into this kind of customer often? I bet there are a lot of men who don't do their homework either. |
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Replying to: driver100 (Nov 11, 2009 1:09 pm) We realize that you can't be perfect all of the time.    Richard
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