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Old 04-11-2006, 09:46 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Car salesmen scrathes Z un purpose!!

I went to the local Pontiac dealer trying to find some pushpins for my inner wheel housings for my camaro. I get there park the Z and walk into the parts dept. After searching they didnt have what I needed there and directed me to another dealer.
I am on my way out and I see two salesmen right behind my car. I continue to walk and as I get closer the one salesmen looks at me and points to let his buddy know the owner is coming.
I walk up and salesmen 1 moves away from the car, What do I find? I find the words "WASH ME" written on the back of the vette in the dust that collected on it.
I get real upset and start going off, asking him what his problem is and swearing. Both salemen say "AWW COME ON" while laughing thinking it is funny.
I wipe the dust with my duster and inspect the rear half of the car.
I notice you can still see his finger marks and scratches that still say WASH ME in the paint.
I go in the dealer and talk to a manager, the manager asks me what the sales men looked like and he will handle it.
In the mean time I am waiting for my car to come back from there detail area, and what do i see? I see the same sales person who wrote in the paint peak around a corner and look at me.
Anyway the car got fully detailed and the scratches were able to be removed.
I dont understand why they wouldnt fire the Jerk, I could of had $80,000 on me and wanted to buy 2 cars and now after that I will take my business elsewhere.

I cant believe that the 2 guys would even think about that? Ohh look at the nice Corvette? lets go write WASH ME in his paint, the owner will think its funny too.
Give me a break.
Had to vent, had a long hard day yesterday.

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Old 04-11-2006, 09:50 AM   #2 (permalink)
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wow, that's terrible. At least it was able to be corrected i mean no damage. I hate salesmen, always have, always will. They are scum in my opinion.
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Old 04-11-2006, 10:02 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Man, you have better self control than I do....I might have gone ape sh!t on them. What pieces of crap.
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Old 04-11-2006, 10:47 AM   #4 (permalink)
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H-o-l-y c-r-a-p! I have worked at a Chevy dealer in the past (not as a salesman, to be clear), and seen salesmen (and women) do some really dumb things. I, ordinarilly, wouldn't cast a shadow over the entire group. Lately, though, the trend is to hire people that don't know anything about their product and have no professional courtesy.
It's getting harder and harder to find good sales people. Here in the Washington, D.C. metro area, I am hard pressed to find fluent english speakers. All I want is decent service. But when I get bad service in a foreign language, it just magnifies my anger.
My advice, last but certainly not least, is go straight to the owner of the dealer. At the dealer I worked at, the old-school owner was vigorously involved in his business. The manager would've been out of a job, too; for hiring the losers in the first place, then not firing them.
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Old 04-11-2006, 10:56 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Amazing! Some people are just morons!
Self Control at it's finest. Good Job....
Much better than I would have handled it....
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Old 04-11-2006, 10:59 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Your a good man. I think you handled yourself with restraint..



Sorry the salespeople were jerks. They're lucky you didn't kick the crap out of em.. You did the right thing.

Most dealerships I stop in at the salespeople are very nice and very respectful of the cars we drive.

Your story surprises me...but thats what makes the world go round.

Glad it all worked out.
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Old 04-11-2006, 11:00 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Man, that would piss me off! That is absolutely ridiculous. I don't know how you contained yourself. I don't know that I would have been able to restrain myself physically. Kudos to you. I hate car salesmen. I try and avoid them at all costs. I do like to keep myself up to date on all the latest tricks they employ though. There is a new show on A&E or TLC, one of those channels, called the King Of Cars. The guy sells about 8,000 cars a year. They focus on a couple of car salesmen, so it gives a little more insight into what the hell they are thinking.

Anyway, glad to hear you had the problem taken care of. At an inconvenience to you though, that sucks.
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Old 04-11-2006, 11:14 AM   #8 (permalink)
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What about parents that let their kids run amuck

I have seen this many times. The other day I was at the dealership to pick up my Z, I saw a man and his young daughter looking at the new cars in the showroom. There was a brand new '06 vert with the top down. The kid was trying to climb over the door because she didn't know how to open the door. I could see the side of the door getting scratched. Then, the father picked her up and placed her on the seat. Her shoes were on the seat cushion! I was really upset and wondered if the father realized that that vert was over $60k. Parents should not allow their kids to run amuck in the showrooms. That is why I always order my vettes and specifically tell the salesman to call me immediately when it comes off the truck. Thanks for letting me vent.

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Just when I thought I heard it all, along comes another story of how stupid people can be.
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Old 04-11-2006, 12:03 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Believe it or not, consumers trust a moron over someone who is really savvy on the product.

They feel they can get a better deal, and are more likely to be interested in the product,especially if they know more about it than the salesman.

When I did my cam swap, I went by one of the local dealerships to pick up the front engine cover gasket and crank bolt, I stepped through an adjacent chrysler showroom, and I stopped to stare at a Jeep SRT8 which is a gorgeous SUV, and Im not fond of SUV's.

Salesman jumped up from behind the desk in one of the offices, and blurted out "yeah that thing is friggin fast!" "450 hp"! "ITS GOT A CORVETTE ENGINE"!

Now I know the guy wasnt so incompetent to think it had an LS1, I knew better as it was most likely a ploy for me to reply with "well actually, it has the same chrysler hemi V8 that is shared with the charger" but I knew better.

If he came out and started laying down factual information, chances are if I was in the market for that I wouldve been intimidated.

Who would you want to get a better deal on something like that from, someone who thinks it has a corvette engine or a seasoned salesman?

By the way I was a salesman for a brief period recently, and I know this first hand. I didnt last long in that job, to honest, and really couldnt lie through my teeth.
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You did a lot better than I would have. Glad to hear that they fixed it to your satisfaction.
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I would have gone postal.
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Just puts an exclamation point on what I stated on another thread "80% of humans are morons".
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