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re: Car Dealerships are Scum (Edited with Dealership)
Posted on 3/12/24 at 10:39 pm to groundcrew
Posted on 3/12/24 at 10:39 pm to groundcrew
quote:Honest question. Is it weird working in a profession that everyone has a terrible opinion of?
First off, I’m a Sales Manager at a dealership
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Posted on 3/12/24 at 10:48 pm to groundcrew
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If we agree on figures and you tell me you and your wife will be in on Wednesday to sign and what time - I will pull the keys Tuesday evening and it will not be available to sell to anyone else up to your agreed appt time. Anytime before your appt ( before the key is pulled or after your appt expires) it’s for sale. If I sell it before your appt - I’m calling you to let you know we need to find a different vehicle.
So if they say, hey I’ll be here noon on Wednesday. And tell you this on Tuesday morning. You don’t pull keys till Tuesday at closing. Then you’ll sell the vehicle Tuesday afternoon? That’s shite business. No wonder why people hate dealing worth you. Lol
This post was edited on 3/12/24 at 10:49 pm
Posted on 3/12/24 at 10:49 pm to subMOA
quote:well was it 4 or was it 5?
I have bought 4 or 5 different vehicles from Ralph Sellers.
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He has always been nothing short of amazing.
quote:wut
I have no affiliation with Ralph Sellers
quote:so you are affiliated with him. So much for an unbiased opinion.
other than being a many time repeat customer.
quote:Ralph has entered the chat.
For every bad story that comes out, there are many other good ones.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 10:52 pm to Cycledude
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Tiger Honda (of Gonzales)
Is that Ascension Honda now? That place blows. Had a rough experience there with a salesman and his sales manager
Posted on 3/12/24 at 11:02 pm to groundcrew
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I’m a Sales Manager at a dealership
Kudos for weighing in but inadvertently explaining why the general public has such low regard for car dealerships.
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We will agree on figures that are acceptable.
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If we agree on figures
The rest of your explanation should have added the words "unless we get a better deal than we agreed to with you."
I will say that this business philosophy and practice would not last very long in the Oil & Gas industry with say an Exxon or Chevron.
When the company I work for agrees to a project cost and schedule, some in the multi $100's of millions, we honor our commitment and our price. Occasionally to our detriment, but our reputation is not something we'll compromise on even the smallest project.
The car dealership sales industry has gotten their poor reputation and justified perception for dishonesty the old fashioned way - you earned it.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 11:11 pm to MikeAV8s
Yeah I work in parts at a dealership also and my parents are looking for a new car and they wouldn’t give me pricing on a vehicle they liked because someone else was already looking at it. If that dealership does business like that, find another one. That’s shitty.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 11:25 pm to groundcrew
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Sorry you had such a bad experience and it really doesn’t have to be that way.
quote:well then, so it DOES have to be that way because you're all sackless imbeciles with no integrity? It literally, really, does have to be that way.
Anytime before your appt ( before the key is pulled or after your appt expires) it’s for sale.
quote:just stop right there. What needs to happen, is that you sorry sacks of shite need to have your government lobbied protections pulled and booted out of the way of the free market. You're not capitalists in any sense of the term: you're propped up and allowed to continue because sorry arse politicians are bought and paid for and put you in the way of free enterprise and actual consumer protections. It's called state capitalism, and it's the economy this country has today. It's the precursor to socialism. You're not only car salesman, you're also incapable of bringing value to consumers in a free market, which are both synonymous.
First off, I’m a Sales Manager
You ought to hang your goddamned head in shame that this is your job. You understand that, right? Help me to help you understand that: A car salesman is lower than whale shite. I'd rather shake hands with a billboard attorney than piss on the grave of a proud car salesman. It's an antiquated job title that's government protected and forced on the citizenry. Your job makes a realtor's importance look like that of Bruce Willis and crew in Armageddon - that's how worthless your job is in a world with credit scores above triple nickels, and someone with that credit score has no business at a car dealership, so that makes you predatory at best.
Find something else to do, because God forbid you die tomorrow, the legacy you will leave behind will be that of a fricking car salesman. That ought to keep you up at night. It ought to shake you to your very core that your tombstone should, by law, read, "here lies a car salesman."
Posted on 3/12/24 at 11:36 pm to mudshuvl05
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mudshuvl05
Posted on 3/12/24 at 11:50 pm to groundcrew
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groundcrew
Go to hell, eh?
Posted on 3/12/24 at 11:57 pm to mudshuvl05
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mudshuvl05
Posted on 3/12/24 at 11:58 pm to Auburntiger
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I bought was during the vehicle shortage of 2021
Moron
Posted on 3/12/24 at 11:59 pm to Ricardo
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You sold the car I put a deposit on? No refund on deposit?
Put a deposit on the vehicle to hold it. I'm so pissed I'm just going to canx it through my bank. I don't trust them after that. The bank could charge me to do that and I would still go ahead with that. I don't want to even look at that dealership.
Posted on 3/13/24 at 12:02 am to csorre1
It wouldn't be so bad if these useless pawns weren't foisted upon us: in state after state across this union, time and time again, the dealership lobby successfully defeats any attempt to enact direct-to-consumer sales.
Hey, if a dealership wants to hire salesmen in the traditional sense, and the market says, "hey I need that service," then so be it - that's a good thing.
But the market, circa 2024, doesn't want that. These individuals' entire industry is propped up by politicians who are paid with taxpayers dollars, to frick the taxpayers, all because Polly the Politician gets his political war chest lined. And what's bad is the remarkable number of state politicians who are directly involved with the car dealership industry. That ought to tell you all you need to know of the caliber of people we are dealing with. The reply from the guy above ought to tell you all you need to know of the caliber of people we are dealing with at car middlemanships. Across the board, a middleman is almost always a scourge to positive progress.
The guy I replied to is a proud car salesman manager. He's trash, his job title is trash, and he's a state-enabled consumer predator. Anyone participating in that occupation should be publicly castigated across the airwaves every morning at exactly 7:30 am during morning commute like they castigate the idea of a free and open market.
Hey, if a dealership wants to hire salesmen in the traditional sense, and the market says, "hey I need that service," then so be it - that's a good thing.
But the market, circa 2024, doesn't want that. These individuals' entire industry is propped up by politicians who are paid with taxpayers dollars, to frick the taxpayers, all because Polly the Politician gets his political war chest lined. And what's bad is the remarkable number of state politicians who are directly involved with the car dealership industry. That ought to tell you all you need to know of the caliber of people we are dealing with. The reply from the guy above ought to tell you all you need to know of the caliber of people we are dealing with at car middlemanships. Across the board, a middleman is almost always a scourge to positive progress.
The guy I replied to is a proud car salesman manager. He's trash, his job title is trash, and he's a state-enabled consumer predator. Anyone participating in that occupation should be publicly castigated across the airwaves every morning at exactly 7:30 am during morning commute like they castigate the idea of a free and open market.
Posted on 3/13/24 at 12:19 am to USAFTiger42
Do it, united we stand divided we fall. Dealership owners have been raking in hundreds of millions in profits through sales and Government bailouts. All paid for by hard working citizens like you and I. I have abramd new car woth warranty amd the dealer wont make a 200.00 dealer repair. Complete bullshite! frick em!
Posted on 3/13/24 at 12:20 am to Walt OReilly
Take it for a test drive and do the dash on the Interstate, cops pull you over blame it on the dealer!
This post was edited on 3/13/24 at 12:29 am
Posted on 3/13/24 at 12:28 am to mudshuvl05
Their model needs to go. It is one of those issues I wish people would throw in the face of the idiots we elect
Posted on 3/13/24 at 12:44 am to USAFTiger42
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Wife (no pics) is a night shift worker
yes, go on….
Posted on 3/13/24 at 3:34 am to mudshuvl05
I sold cars at toyota of new orleans in the east for a few months and it was by far the worst job experience of my life.
Posted on 3/13/24 at 3:45 am to USAFTiger42
Stories like the OP’s are exactly why the CEO of Ford is seriously suggesting that the market move away from the dealership model. Say what you want about Tesla’s manufacturing quality and delivery delays, but you don’t hear stories like this about them.
I had an employee on my team from work who recently got majorly hosed - the dealership convinced him to sign a deal on a used truck with over 100k miles at over 11% for 72 months. They told him he could refinance soon and get that rate down. He’s a young guy, mid-20s I guess, and only had his mother to help him negotiate.
I had an employee on my team from work who recently got majorly hosed - the dealership convinced him to sign a deal on a used truck with over 100k miles at over 11% for 72 months. They told him he could refinance soon and get that rate down. He’s a young guy, mid-20s I guess, and only had his mother to help him negotiate.
Posted on 3/13/24 at 5:29 am to subMOA
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Even when I had to go out of state during covid to buy something I needed, they still serviced it just like they sold it.
You must work for them.
Of course a dealership will do this. They make money servicing vehicles.
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