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The new title for a used car salesman working for Arnold Clark, a bit like a scaffy now known as a refuse collector
The new title for a used car salesman working for Arnold Clark,
I can think of several other, more descriptive and accurate titles.
I'd be banned for an accurate description.
What is it about car sales that has developed such a greasy, decietful and unique culture?
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I spoke to the guy who sold me my last car. Their T&C's and hours are appalling. I would never do that job, not for all the tea in China
"What is it about car sales that has developed such a greasy, decietful and unique culture? "
..."I spoke to the guy who sold me my last car. Their T&C’s and hours are appalling. I would never do that job, not for all the tea in China"
Its a horrible job that revolves around selling something to people that they neither need nor can usually afford at an inflated price if you can get away with it.
Matt, selling cars is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman...
I bought my last car from the same guy I bought the previous one from. He'd changed jobs and marques and moved 30 miles away, but in the absence of much difference between cars, having someone you trust on your side is a decent discriminator.
on your side
LOL.
While your two interests might sometimes be aligned, he is never on your side.
This is one of the parts of being 'in sales' I hate. I don't cold-call anyone, you'll never find me sticking my foot through the gap in your door when you just want to watch EastEnders, I don't lie, I don't lie by omission, I have years and years of experience in my field and if you need to do something IT related for your Business in the SME sector you would find my advice and the benefit of hands on experience I can bring to bear from my colleagues invaluable.
Yet, despite all that, when one of my colleagues says to someone, with a little bit of a sneer usually "I'll get our Sales 'Guy' to call you" they might as well say "Hey, I'm going to get a professional liar and cheat to call you and steal your money" and it's all because somehow my job gets thrown into the mix with shady car sales 'guys' (there are non-shandy ones who must suffer from this far more than me) double glazing and kitchen sales 'guys'.
Even my Boss occasionally thinks I'm shady, even when I'm the one pushing for the cheaper / simpler solution against the more expensive, complex solution he prefers (usually because it's got some functionality that the client don't care about, but we might use, maybe, years from now). "You're just being a Sales 'Guy'" despite the fact I'm on a fixed salary without commission and the only 'bonus' I get is the same Xmas one that everyone gets.
Anyway, that's why almost no one in sales actually wants a job title with sales in it and you end up in this stupid cat and mouse game with the real bottom feeders.
As for:
What is it about car sales that has developed such a greasy, deceitful and unique culture?
Most of the industry is focused that way, attracts that kind of employee and the ones who don't play the game starve. Honestly, even some Main Dealers are a shark tank, we bought our last Car from someone I went to school with actually and have known for 30 years (still don't trust him, with reason) seems because my Wife filled out a form online with the dealer 14 months prior, even though my mate sold us the car, the other salesman we never spoke to claimed the commission, it all became a protracted argument and they ended up paying my mate for 'handing over' (I sat bored as he explained incorrectly how sat-nav works for 15 mins) and the other one got paid for the sale.
the only ‘bonus’ I get is the same Xmas one that everyone gets.
a lot like making love to a beautiful woman
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This is one of the parts of being ‘in sales’ I hate. I don’t cold-call anyone, you’ll never find me sticking my foot through the gap in your door when you just want to watch EastEnders, I don’t lie, I don’t lie by omission, I have years and years of experience in my field and if you need to do something IT related for your Business in the SME sector you would find my advice and the benefit of hands on experience I can bring to bear from my colleagues invaluable.
Yet, despite all that, when one of my colleagues says to someone, with a little bit of a sneer usually “I’ll get our Sales ‘Guy’ to call you” they might as well say “Hey, I’m going to get a professional liar and cheat to call you and steal your money” and it’s all because somehow my job gets thrown into the mix with shady car sales ‘guys’ (there are non-shandy ones who must suffer from this far more than me) double glazing and kitchen sales ‘guys’.
Even my Boss occasionally thinks I’m shady, even when I’m the one pushing for the cheaper / simpler solution against the more expensive, complex solution he prefers (usually because it’s got some functionality that the client don’t care about, but we might use, maybe, years from now). “You’re just being a Sales ‘Guy'” despite the fact I’m on a fixed salary without commission and the only ‘bonus’ I get is the same Xmas one that everyone gets.
Anyway, that’s why almost no one in sales actually wants a job title with sales in it and you end up in this stupid cat and mouse game with the real bottom feeders.
Well said PJ.
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I bought my last car from the same guy I bought the previous one from. He’d changed jobs and marques
My Mrs had this dude worked for Citroen next to Toyota garage one year Toyota's were shit and Citroen's were brilliant, guess what now he works at toyota
Ah perchypanther does it again.
Last year I was on the lookout for a secondhand Passat and went to several small independents in the area. I was amazed how polite and unpushy they ALL were.
I bought my latest car from Arnold Clark last August. It was a damned good deal. Better than I was offered anywhere else. Got more car for less money than I was expecting.
But I hope I never have to buy another from them. We did the deal at 6.30 on Friday night. Guy wanted to do the exchange at 9.00AM the following morning. When we said no (we were away for the weekend) he became as nasty and obstructive as possible. I made him wait a week just for points scoring purposes!
My brother in law is a car sales man at VW. He does works some long hours 6 days a week, and apparently is pretty good at it.
What makes me laugh though is that customers buy him presents for ripping them off. At Chriatmas he got bottles of JD and gift vouchers.
I asked him if he could do me a deal and he quoted me the same deal I was looking at on the internet!!