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My experience with car salesmen is most, not all, are lazy – and they lie.
Spec’d a Mini after a few test drives, but never got the 48 hour test drive Mini adverts promise, just a 9-5 drive, simply because the staff wouldn’t have a car to go home in! – Nonesense, eh?.
I emailed the spec to the local dealer (A), visited showroom to chat prices ready and to order. Salesman threw a curved ball and offered another built car, £5k more with extra bells and whistles, but promised a bigger discount because it was 'built' not a factory order, while implying it was in group stock.
In fact this ‘bigger discount’ turned out to be no more than 5-6%, yet dealer (B) whom I'd contacted via Carwow had offered 11.1% off my original spec car. The salesman and his boss at dealer also spurned some bulls*** story about how ‘mini didn’t approve of discounts…’, as if I’d just fallen off a tree.
So not liking dealer A’s ‘good cop, bad cop’ charade to pressure an order, dealer B was give the code for the built car, which I hasten to add dealer A had given me, possibly in error. LOL! It transpired this car wasn’t in their stock but at an unrelated dealer. An interesting case of misleading?
Dealer B offered the same percentage off the built car on the basis they could obtain it, my wife asked to get it under a psychological threshold she wanted to pay for a new car – and they did, without quibble. So there are good salesmen but they are few and far between.
I’ll conclude and say despite the interest we’d shown at dealer A, since they reopened last week, they’ve not bothered to enquire if we are still interested in a car, yet have an almost identically spec’d demonstrator for sale at £1k less than we are paying new! Clearly a case of a CBA.
Salesmen are a breed unto themselves, without a doubt, but they wont intimidate me, I just walk away.
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