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Unity, OR Car Consumer Discussions

Price is plus tax, title, registration, and $299.00 processing fee.

by mackabee on Wed Jul 23 14:25:40 PDT 2008

It's funny you should ask! Once in band camp, I was walking down a grassy knoll.. oops! Wrong story! :blush: When I got into the car biz I started at a domestic store. The one with the shiny black bow on the emblem. Everything you may have heard of in regards to the car biz happened here. Customers would lie to, and customers would lie too! ;) So the store decided to have a "Slasher" sale to drum up some business. They run an ad in the local rag advertising hundreds of new and clean pre-owned vehicles. It read something like this: "Attention Happy Roads! Due to the tremendous response to our new car tent sale, we have hundreds of pre-owned low mileage vehicles we took in on trade.! Honda, Lexus, Acura, Toyota, Nissan, you name it we have it! The deals will be so good you may have to camp out overnight for this even. We have vehicles starting at $299.00* Please stop by our location at 231234 Military Road and fill out a registration form to ensure you get to pick the best of the crop. We'll seee you heeeeere!" Me and a buddy of mine called Buddy read the announcement in disbelief. "Tremendous response to our new car tent sale?" both of us said it in unity,, and laughed. Later that day we were instructed on what to do to prepare for the grand sale. We where supposed to fill out some registration cards which looked like innocent registration cards. Name, number, address, place of employment, monthly income, etc,etc,,,;) The first victim,, I mean customer of the day came in looking for an Acura Legend for $299.00. We told her that car would not be in until Sunday and asked if she had another choice. "Yeah, a Lexus would be fine too." So you can imagine how the rest of the day went. We had hundreds of people come in to "register" to get a chance at that mystical $299.00* vehicle. Next day was a Saturday and I was anxiously waiting for a phone call from someone that wanted to hire me to sell at their dealer group. I had a customer that I was getting nowhere with when the phone rings and the receptionist tells me I have a call. "This is Mack, how can I help?" I asked. "Mack! this is Richi Cardone. How are you?" he asked. "I'm working a deal right now, how about you?" I reply. "How would you like to start working for us monday morning?" he asks. "I would be delighted!!" I respond. I get up and get one of the other salespeople and tell him: "Here you, finish this up will ya?" I tell him. "Where are you going?" he asks. "I'm going to a better dealership and a better product. I can't stand this place anymore with all their lies and deceit. And that's just the customers. Management is a different story." I grabbed my jacket and headed out to my car. Monday morning I called my buddy Buddy to find out how their "Slasher" sale had gone. "Oh man, you should be happy you left this weekend. It's was a total disaster and a madhouse. You know those "registration" forms they made us fill out?" he asks. "Yeah, what about them?" I ask intrigued. "Those were actually mini=credit apps." he says. "Jack was in the back office pulling those people's credit." he tells me. ."No EXCREMENT!" I respond in disbelief. "Yep, that's what he was doing all the time. And that's not all. The best is yet to come" he tells me. "The sale actually began on Sunday. All the people that registered came in and they were given a balloon to tie around their wrist. The balloons were color coded. Green balloon+credit, can buy anything they want. Yellow balloon, So so but still good buyers. And the last one was a red balloon meaning those people had horrible credit, bankruptcy, and lots of late payments" he continued. So you can guess all the saleman were after the customers with green balloons." he finished. "Wow. Unbelievable. So did they sell many cars?" I asked. "Not really, maybe 5 the whole weekend. I had a customer come up to me for help. She had a red balloon and said no one would help her" he replied. "And how about you? did you sell anything?" I asked. "No, I'm doing lot patrol now. Like it better too, and no long hours." The End. :shades: * price is plus tax, title, registration, and $299.00 processing fee. Only one at this price. See store representative for additional information.