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Old June 1st 05, 08:06 AM
SoCalMike
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TeGGeR® wrote:
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> They hate PEOPLE that have done their homework.


and they really really hate people who make deals off the internet...
with a passion! no commision, no spiffs, no chance to upsell.
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Old June 4th 05, 02:27 PM
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TeGGeR® wrote:

> jim beam > wrote in
> :
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>
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>>do they hate chicks? or do they hate chicks that have done their
>>homework?

>
>
>
>
> They hate PEOPLE that have done their homework. I wish you could have sat
> in on some of the deals I've been in. Last one was our Tercel almost 2
> years ago. The salesman (Toyota dealership) promised me I could buy it for
> $11,000Cdn, on-the-road. After all the foo-fa-raw and talk, I finally get
> him to put a number down on paper. He hems and haws, pokes random keys on
> his calculator, makes a few frowny faces, and comes in at $12,800.
>
> It took me an hour to get him down to...$11,000. I'll spare you the
> details, but there was a lot of talk, and several visits from his manager.
>
> Some time before that I had walked out on a deal for a Corolla at another
> Toyota dealership, because they wouldn't include the price of a water pump
> ($250) within the purchase price. I talked them into doing the timing belt
> for free, and a few other things, but they balked at the pump itself. The
> next day I got an urgent message from the salesman. Never called him back.
> By then I didn't want the car.
>
> Buying a big-ticket item with a flexible price is not for the meek, and
> griping about "misogyny" is not ever going to change that.
>
> Nobody's ever got a dime out of me I didn't want to spend. Well, except the
> Mazda RX-4 I bought in 1985. I paid too much for that from the private
> seller. It was the first one I had come across after looking for some time,
> and I wanted it more than I wanted the money.
>
>
>
>>why not find yourself a chick sales person. that's what my girlfriend
>>did. got herself a good deal too.
>>
>>

>
>
> Problem is, some of those salesladies are as fish-eyed as the men. I've run
> into those. The problem is, the saleswoman has an easier time fleecing a
> female customer because she's more willing to trust another woman.


Easy time fleecing most men, too, if she has a big rack.


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Old June 4th 05, 04:37 PM
TeGGeR®
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Sparky Spartacus > wrote in
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> TeGGeR® wrote:
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>> Problem is, some of those salesladies are as fish-eyed as the men.
>> I've run into those. The problem is, the saleswoman has an easier
>> time fleecing a female customer because she's more willing to trust
>> another woman.

>
> Easy time fleecing most men, too, if she has a big rack.
>
>
>



LOL

How true!

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