BogMonster Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 My mate's uncle was the CEO of vodafone europe. Absolutely loaded, but dressed like a right tramp when not at work. Anyway, he decided he wanted a new Ferrari. Walks into the showroom, and the salesman smiles condescendingly and says, "Just dreaming are we sir?" My mate's uncle says, "No actually I want this Ferrarri, with the top interior and comfort package (about three hundred K's worth of car). And as you've been so condescending, I want all the commision to go to that other guy sat over there!" Apparently the look on the guys face was priceless, apparently the garage operated on a couple of percent commission, so the guy lost out on six grand! When I win the lottery that would be me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticbadger Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 I just wanted to share a completely contrasting story regarding an independant dealer as a contrast to the new dealers - I went to CR Cars near Alton looking to buy a Discovery 2, in my old clothes driving my very battered and very modified 1989 Discovery. When I got out i was plesantly greated by one of the two guys who runs it who even made a joke about the reasonable quantity of oil that was dropping out of my Discovery onto his very clean forecourt. After a while of brousing and asking questions I put a cash deposit on a £7.5k disco and left a happy man. Now why can't main dealers be like that? Is it so hard to treat everybody like they want to buy something? As an example I build very expensive boats (£90k to £400k) and at boats show we always get 'window shoppers' but you have to treat everybody the same because as has been shown above that guy in the jeans and t-shirt may just have a couple of hundred £k in his pocket. Roman Abromivich visited me at recent show wearing jeans and a polo shirt for example and I didn't reconise him - now if I'd have judged him by his apprence and ignored him I could be very unpopular with my boss! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d1scv Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 LR snobbery can be fun. Back some 3 years ago a workmate and I saw exactly the Disco we wanted on a main dealer forecourt. We had just left a building site, and it was a cold dark evening. The stunning receptionist and the sales team blanked us. The screen price was £21,995. A young lad was finally dispatched to get rid of us. He nervously explained that this was his first day on the sales floor- and which vehicle did we want to test drive. WE explained that we did not want to test drive anything- but that we wanted to buy that motor there, and if it didn't drive perfectly his manager would be the first to know- just prior to the Disco going through said showroom window. The young lad looked pretty pleased with himself, as he went over to the leering senior sales people, with a cheque for £5000. Coffee/biscuits etc where suddenly made available, together with sales managers full attention. We blanked him. Still got the Disco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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