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re: Are used car sales jobs the bottom for sales jobs?

Posted on 8/23/25 at 8:23 pm to
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
74897 posts
Posted on 8/23/25 at 8:23 pm to
The motto of the used car trade: “There’s an arse for every seat.”

I knew a guy who had several used car lots, he was entertaining to be around.

Always dealing: part Baptist preacher, part Whorehouse madam.
Posted by MardiGrasCajun
Dirty Coast, MS
Member since Sep 2005
6020 posts
Posted on 8/23/25 at 8:30 pm to
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he says all his salesmen have felonies and have been divorced at some point also a lot of them have drug and alcohol problems and spend a ton of time in strip clubs.


Pretty much every trade related career has these job requirements.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
134660 posts
Posted on 8/23/25 at 11:32 pm to
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Same goes with a car lot that doesn't have prices on the vehicles themselves.


I thought they legally had to have a posted price?

Are we talking specifically a sleazy used lot?

I thought they always had the price in what I assumed to be market paint all over the front windows?

Admittedly I haven't been to a used car lot in years so shite may have changed post Covid


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4 square



Still don't understand this. If you want a lower payment, for anything, you have to extend your terms or put more down. That or find a better interest rate.
Posted by LSUSkip
Central, LA
Member since Jul 2012
24717 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 12:49 am to
Do they make good money?
Posted by Taffeta
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Dec 2012
996 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:39 am to
FIL works at a local Toyota dealer selling used cars, he’s been there 10+ years. I’ve seen his W2’s. Makes around 180-220k per year

Idk if I would consider it the bottom. Maybe roofer door knocking.
Posted by Eurocat
Member since Apr 2004
17244 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:44 am to
Encyclopedia sales.
Posted by RoyalAir
Detroit
Member since Dec 2012
7501 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 9:44 am to
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I knew a guy who would buy cars with issues for as little as he could, fix them up, and flip them for a profit.


There's a sizable cottage industry of guys on YT who do just this. A little ingenuity and some risk tolerance can make a couple grand a week.
Posted by NorthGwinnettTiger
Member since Jun 2006
53282 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 10:55 am to
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salesmen have felonies and have been divorced at some point also a lot of them have drug and alcohol problems and spend a ton of time in strip clubs.


Bitches could drive the pope to a felony.
Posted by tadman
Member since Jun 2020
5446 posts
Posted on 8/25/25 at 8:20 am to
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Lawyers are basically used car salesmen and the reason insurance prices are insane.



That's a large chunk of them, kind of like MOrris Bart and Dudley Debosier. For every real case they have, they have 200 cases where it's cheaper to settle than litigate, and that indeed is how your insurance goes up.

But there are a lot of decent lawyers out there that are helping settle estates and protect family businesses, often against slimeballs like Morris Bart.
Posted by Boondock Saint
The Boondocks
Member since Oct 2005
4838 posts
Posted on 8/25/25 at 8:28 am to
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There was one guy who had a lot in Lincoln who had a hooker OD on a plane ride to Vegas and his wife found out.


Sorry for partying?
Posted by jflsufan
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Mar 2013
5179 posts
Posted on 8/25/25 at 9:19 am to
I'm Don "The Goods" Ready. Everyone here told you their story, here's mine... I have hair on my balls and I sell cars. The end.
Posted by jiffyjohnson
1226 miles from Death Valley
Member since Nov 2011
5801 posts
Posted on 8/25/25 at 3:13 pm to
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I thought they legally had to have a posted price?

Are we talking specifically a sleazy used lot?


This was for a franchised GMC/Buick dealership maybe 7 yrs ago.

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Still don't understand this




It looks like this^. And its how the devil does his work.
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