racerdave600 wrote:I do know a guy that pulled into the local Dodge dealer after a ball game with his son in an old pickup. His son wanted to see the Viper GTS in the showroom. A salesman came up to him and basically told him to leave. he grabbed another young salesman walking buy and paid cash for the Viper at full list on the spot just to piss off the rude salesman. The guy owns a tech company in town. That is true. You should never judge someone by looks, you never know.
Ok, I'll admit I was a mattress salesman for 6 months in college (needed spring break money) and I had an in with one of the big chains in town so I worked and there was basically 2 credos, chase the money and ignore those who want to lowball/haggle, or roll with it all. The former strategy was a favorite of the district sales manager (dude) who was a sleeze ball, the latter was the strategy of a store manager (woman). The district manager's stragegy made high margin money fast, but I'd say he would close less than 50% of the time, and it always seemed stressful and tiring for him as he would have to 'work' the individual(s). He also had alot of returns because people would get home, realize that they had overpaid for something they didn't want and bring it back (60 return policy). The store manger on the other hand had a very even keel and wouldn't 'hard sell' anyone, and basically let people buy what they wanted and would be fair on price, i.e. she'd come down to get the sale even if it was slightly below the standard profit margin, her take, money is money. Granted she had to work 6 days a week to equal the sales of the district manager, but her returns were low and her profit margin solid and consistent.
Guess who went to corporate and who stayed in the trenches...?
He tells the kid he might have trouble getting financed, the kid asks why and the boss says he just got out of prison a few weeks earlier. The kid says 'I'm sure we can work around that' and offers to take him to the sales manager. By this time he's best buds with the boss, almost has an arm around his shoulders, etc and as they are walking to the showroom he says 'Can I ask what you were in prison for?' and the boss says 'Murder'. 
The kid came to a screeching halt, waked like three steps behind him all the way into the showroom. 
