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Originally posted by dsking
I did this once in an upscale retail store. I went in with my little jeans on and daily wear and was ignored. I went in with full regalia and was treated like a Queen! Never went back either!
I did something similar at a car dealer. I went in with a old concert t shirt and torn jeans looking for a car. The dealer didnt know I had a cashiers check for the entire selling price in my pocket. The only person who even came over to assist me was what had to be the newest guy there. After discussing the different options and coming to an agreement on a price, he asked about financing and when I said I was paying cash, the other sales people got REALLY polite and tried to work their way into the deal offering assistance. I made sure the new kid, who by the way was VERY professional the whole time, got ALL the credit for the sale. Edited by Ferret Lord
08/06/2006 5:03 pm
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Good Job FerrettLord! One more for the good guys!
A friend of mine once did that also. He was in his grubbies and went to a car dealer to buy a Cadillac. He went to one dealer and was ignored. Went across the street and paid cash for the car. The info got back to the first dealer and they were shocked. This particular "friend" developed the patent for the Scotts Turf Builder POLY formula! He could have bought the entire car lot with cash! tee hee
I'm glad that you gave the new guy the deal. He earned it! Works everytime!
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That does like a pretty good idea dsking and ferret lord. I just might have to do that just to see how he acts. Then I can say remember when and turn and walk out. Oh so cruel. But knowing what kind of person he seems to be he probably wouldn't even care. I do see that kind of treatment all the time. Sad but true. As they say what goes around comes around.
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I did the same thing when I bought my escalade, I went in with jeans and an old alice cooper T-shirt on and my Myrtle Beach Bike Week hat on and couldn't get anyone to even come help me when they saw me looking at the escalades. I walked around for a good 30 minutes and kept looking back like I was waiting on someone to come help me but they were all standing at the door like I was getting ready to break into one or something. I started walking to the door and when I opened it thats when the salesman asked me if I needed help. I politely asked him for the sales manager and he pointed me to the Glass office, I walked in and pulled 200k cash out of my front pocket and dropped it on his table and told him I had come there to buy an escalade and since none of his sales men wanted to help me out I would be taking my business down the street to the next car dealer. You could have heard a pin drop when he saw the money and after I was finished saying what I said he was doing everything he could to get me to stay and even called all the salesmen in the office asking why they didn't help me. The said "they didn't see me out there" and I just told all of them that was a bare face lie because I was watching them watch me outside for 30 minutes before I walked in. I then left and went 2 blocks over to the next dealers lot and the sales people were more social and I paid cash for the escalade there, when I went and picked the vehicle up I pulled into the lot that wouldn't give me time of day and parked the escalade right at the door and got out and walked into the sales managers office and told him how much I loved my new vehicle just so he would know that I was serious about wanting a vehicle and told him that if he didn't change the attitude of his salesmen then he would be out of business soon
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Same thing happened to me. Back in the late 80's I was a long haired tattoo'd glam rocker with bleached blond hair. I stopped in a dealer to look at a cool yellow 77 Corvette and the salesman said "kid, you really think you can afford a Corvette" ? I pointed to my Blue 75 Corvette and said "yup". His attitude changed and I told him I would not buy a car from him if it was a dollar.....
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Great stories! Absolutely wonderful. Car dealers and salesmen are the worst at making assumptions. I would like to see the outcome of Southern Yankees visit to the coin dealer. Go for it! "You can't tell a book by it's cover"! Oh so right!
"Alice Cooper t shirt"? "long haired tattoo'd glam rocker with bleached blond hair"? Ahhhhhhhh, the wonderful folks we have on this forum. Me? I was a long haired, holes in my jeans, Picketing on OSU campus, radical! Didn't trust anyone over 30? Remember that! Ofcourse, you do and "you" know who you are!!!!!!
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UI just love all the stories, if I could be a fly on the wall I would be laughing my tale off..
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Jim - I didn't know flies have tails.  |
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Bryan, I don't have anything like that good a story but I know the attitude you describe first hand.
When I was trading in my "grad school car"--a Saturn SC2--for my "first job car," I checked out a number of makes and models. When I went to look at the Maxima, I got interrogated about why I was making "such a big jump up." Never mind that the difference was just about $10k, it was clear that the salesman thought I was out of my league.
Anyway, I bought a Lexus ES300.
Fast forward 5 years, it was time to get a family car. I bought a Honda Pilot from a different dealer in the same auto group as the Nissan dealership. When it was time to go over my paperwork for the Pilot, all the Honda sales managers were gone so they took me over to a Nissan sales manager. Needless to say, I told him about his rotten salesman 5 years passed.
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So, when I go to my first coin show, should I dress for respect, or should I dress to see who the "good" people to deal with are?
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Ah, dealers. Gotta love'em.
Did anyone ever ask about a
coin, and while you were talking
the booth partner slips out and
goes to another booth and returns
with what you asked about? Dealer
pricing and a dealer split.
I don't general ask price much
I let them offer and try and be
as uninterested as possible with
the offer. It usually sinks a bit.
Then switch coins and start over
with a new coin. I usually go early
to a show, never want to be around
a tired dealer after a long day, then
they can be a little short, I would be
too.
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Just dress like you normally would, and see which dealers show interest in you. Of course, it is fun to mess with people sometimes. My dad wanted to buy a Mercedes ML-500. So , he dressed up in an old T-shirt, shorts, and flip-flops to see who would sell him one. The first dealer he went to didn't even have people that would service him. At the next dealer, he found some very nice, helpful people who were glad to help him with his car.
He ended up buying the car with all the trimmings from them with cash. The funny thing is that the particular car he wanted came from the other dealership, the one that first snubbed him. I'm not too sure of the logistics, but the second dealership got the car for him, and the cash.
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In my opinion you should dress as you normaly would, they shouldn't judge you by how you are dressed and if they do you shouln't give them your business.
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bulldawg: That's very true...noone should be judged by how they dress! I'd like to see the results of his test with this coin dealer in particular. "Dressing for Success" can also have the opposite results where prices aren't so absolute. It's unfortunate that someone with jeans (for example) doesn't receive the same respect as a nicely dressed individual! Car dealers are the creme de la creme of stereotypng!
Edited by dsking
08/08/2006 09:49 am
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Thanks all for the stories. Gave me a chuckle. Not really a laughing matter though. You all talked me into it. I will go in there this weekend and put it to a test. I'm going to dress to impress take a wad of cash that he will see(knowing he won't get a dime of it) and see how loud the money will talk. I'll let you know how it comes out.
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