Its tough to be the Boss!!
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Joined: June 19, 2004
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From: Phoenixville, PA
Its salespeople like this A$$ who make my profession hated, and makes my job tougher!! 
I've been doing this job for almost 15 years (will be on April 27th), and I NEVER NEVER asked anyone if they were buying today!!! You take every customer seriously and assist them. What is did is just stupid LAZY!!! This guy is a dumba$$ and if his boss knows how he treats potential customers, and is okay with it, that place is NO PLACE to buy a car from!!!!
I've been doing this job for almost 15 years (will be on April 27th), and I NEVER NEVER asked anyone if they were buying today!!! You take every customer seriously and assist them. What is did is just stupid LAZY!!! This guy is a dumba$$ and if his boss knows how he treats potential customers, and is okay with it, that place is NO PLACE to buy a car from!!!!
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Joined: December 21, 2007
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From: Raleigh NC
Took the Boss 302 for a ride yesterday because i went a whole day without driving it. So i have been curious about the base Corvette and wanted to see if i could maybe test drive one. I went to my local dealer WIN Chevrolet (Formerly Cormier Chevy as of two weeks ago) So i drive in with the Boss and and start to walk up to the Vette's. The sales guys walks up and start the small talk. He asked me if that was my Mustang and what i had in it. I told him it had a 5.0 and that it was the Boss 302. I asked the guy is they had a 100th anniversary vette, but before i could finish my sentence he said "ZL1" I said no, no, no, if anything i'm waiting for the new 13' GT500. He give me a weird look like im an idiot. he says they have one if the 100th edition in the showroom. As we walk he has me the main question. "Are you looking to buy today?" I give him a little BS of my own and say that its not impossible" he continues to say "well if your not let me know so I can move on" I was beyond surprised of that comment. I told him "well if you have other things to do dont let me stop you." So i go outside to look at the line up of Vette's and for some reason he is still following me. As I'm looking at the vette's.
this how the rest of the conversation went...
Sales Guy: So how about we get you out of that mustang and in to a vette?
Me: (I smile) no thanks, I love that car and I'm never going to sell that car. That my car was faster then the this car (pointing at the base vette)
Sales Guy: What Car?
Me: this car, the basic vette, not the ZR1, it will probably give the Zo6 a run for its money.
Sales Guy: whats the 0-60 of your car.
Me: 4 sec
Sales Guy: oh, this is 4.3
Me: 0-60 is one thing but the Boss is built for the track. In the recent Car & Driver the Boss came in 4th, only beaten by the ZR1,GTR and the Panamera Turbo, All 100k+ cars.
Sales guys: yea ok, well have a nice day.
He walks away and I spend 10 more seconds looking at the vette. As I'm walking to my car i see him in the showroom talking to 2 other sales guys and starts pointing at my car sitting in the lot and begins to laugh.
Lets just say i left there very very loudly.
I bought my wife's car there but i doubt i will go back for anything.
this how the rest of the conversation went...
Sales Guy: So how about we get you out of that mustang and in to a vette?
Me: (I smile) no thanks, I love that car and I'm never going to sell that car. That my car was faster then the this car (pointing at the base vette)
Sales Guy: What Car?
Me: this car, the basic vette, not the ZR1, it will probably give the Zo6 a run for its money.
Sales Guy: whats the 0-60 of your car.
Me: 4 sec
Sales Guy: oh, this is 4.3
Me: 0-60 is one thing but the Boss is built for the track. In the recent Car & Driver the Boss came in 4th, only beaten by the ZR1,GTR and the Panamera Turbo, All 100k+ cars.
Sales guys: yea ok, well have a nice day.
He walks away and I spend 10 more seconds looking at the vette. As I'm walking to my car i see him in the showroom talking to 2 other sales guys and starts pointing at my car sitting in the lot and begins to laugh.
Lets just say i left there very very loudly.
I bought my wife's car there but i doubt i will go back for anything.
Man, that brought back some memories. I can remember going into a Chevy dealership with my buddy years ago after owning my first 2001 mustang and inquiring about a 2002 camaro. I will never forget the VP of sales saying to me that you mostly see kids driving mustangs and adults driving camaros. LOL! Well, I really wasn't happy with the stang which I only owned for 6 months because.....
1) It was an automatic
2) My buddy owned a WS6...the driving reason
Morale of story I bought the camaro! Which btw I do not own anymore.
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Joined: May 11, 2011
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From: Pittsburgh, PA
So you tell the (Chevy) salesman that the only new car purchase you are possibly considering in the future is a new (Ford) GT500 and you are surprised with the fact that the (Chevy) salesman didn't want to spend much time with you???
Just Plain Rude!
Joined: February 1, 2004
Posts: 3,393
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From: Denton, TX
No, he said he'd rather have a GT500 over a ZL1. It doesn't matter if he was planning to buy today or not. If you treat everyone like they're not buying, then guess what...they're not gonna.
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Joined: August 26, 2010
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From: Fort Worth, Texas
My dad had a friend in the car biz back in the 70's. A young long haired hippy type guy in a tie dyed shirt and hemp sandals with a girl hanging on his arm walks onto the lot at the Pontiac dealership where he worked. This was shortly after the first Smokey and the Bandit movie and the Trans Am was THE car to have. The kid starts over looking at the TA's and nobody in the dealership gets up even though there were no other customers on the lot. My dad's friend John decides he might as well talk to the kid so he walks out and says hi. The kid looks at him and says "I need to buy 7 of these Trans Am's." Turns out the kid is H. Ross Perot's son and is buying cars for himself and his best friends. John never judged by how someone looked ever again and went on to own his own dealership for awhile.
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