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I had a similar story......a fellow walked into my Porsche store and asked about the 911 factory slantnose turbo in the showroom - at that time it was the most expensive 911 you could buy outside of a racecar - this was mid 80's and it stickered for $117,000! He was dressed in old clothes and had been working on his house so he was disheveled looking, had a 3 day beard and none of my salespeople - who knew better and had been trained otherwise - seemed to want to talk to him. I spent about 10 min with him, he took my card and left....this was late on a Sat afternoon. Monday morning he called me and said he'd take the red one (we had a red and a black at that time) we talked for a while and wound up adding about $10K in additional equipment he wanted, tax title and lic it came to about $145K - he wrote a company check for it. Turned out he owned the local wholesale paint stores, he had about 15 branches all over the county and did millions of $$$ a month in sales.

I had 4 very unhappy salespeople that Monday, cause the commission on that sale would have been about $5K under our current compensation plan.

He was a genuinely nice guy and I sold him many more cars over the years.....

 

Not at all, I've posted several of my favorite buying experiences - just as the seller, not the buyer! :biggrin5:

However MCS02's favorite buying experiences all seem to involve rancor.....

 

I've worked with good dealers like Minidave and bad ones that do hold on to your keys. Thing is I never bad from those. If they play that one I get the keys and leave. Good dealers get my return business.

I've been a salesman/sales manager all my life. I understand how it works and everyone needs to make some money. I see very few dealers that still play the old games and it's a nice change.

My first new car was going to be an '84 Honda Prelude. I made the deal and waited for the car to come in. It was taking forever and the dealer kept saying it was being delayed. I asked a buddy of mind to go over and and look into buying one. The deal told him the truth. The whole shipment was destroyed in a hail storm and they were waiting for more. When I called and asked about it they fessed up. I canceled the deal.