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madmanmoo, you may need to change your handle to something a little more dignified with some snob appeal, since you're going to being selling "porches" ... maybe sirbovine?
A friend of mine who is self made and very wealthy told me once that he would rather deal with a man who carried a lunch bucket to work then a briefcase. He was right.
Thats very true, first thing someone has to do a few months after discharge is to get a copy of their credit report and make sure that everything is being reported correctly. Make sure that the BK is being reported as discharged and make sure that all the discharged debts are reported as such. It doesn't take much and it has almost immediate results in a credit rating boost.
However if they had their BK discharged in 1999 and they only have a mid 600's credit rating after clearing that stuff up something is wrong. I have come across people about a year after BK that haven't cleaned up their credit report (some issues with the BK) that have keep their nose clean after the BK that were in the 600+/- range. I had a couple that was a year out of BK but there was one or two things from the BK still on their report and their current mortgage wasn't being reported. They were just shy of 600 scores.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
NO.. NO.. NO!!
Oops...
Oh, sorry, my bad...
When I saw a car salesman mention the word "opportunity", I feared this might be another one of those "Mr. Opportunity" commercials...
Will you give a two week notice or just walk in with a box and say have a nice day?
Is there really such a thing as a two week notice in the car biz?
That's the best way to leave right after you get your bonuses! :P
Good Luck
GP
We'll look forward to hearing your new stories. I hope the better job conditions, the higher salary, the more-professional co-workers, and the fewer work hours don't detract from your trademark comic edginess. (Is "edginess" a word??)
I've never owned a Porsche. For that matter, the only time I visited a Porsche dealer was when the local Audi dealer shared the same showroom with Porsche. Thank goodness the Porsche salesmen did a great job of steering me away, toward the $25K A4 1.8T.
Remember to keep a straight face when quoting option prices to your potential customers. It's amazing how much a metallic paint upgrade, or a little carbon fiber trim, can cost on such a small car! :surprise:
The customer who drives in with a rental car. No trade in to deal with, they probably just wrecked their car, and you know they are in the market, and are buying within the next week.
Another great ideal up for me is one the sales manager talked to first on the phone, cause just about every time he talks to someone and gets them to come in, they end up buying the car, such as what just happened this morning. The SM does all the work, and all I have to do is go for the test drive. Can't get much better than that.
Ok, enough of this IDEAL UP stuff. What is your worst UP and don't tell us it's the first one of the day...like when you get UP to go to work. :surprise:
Even us guys who aren't in the biz know about this type of an UP.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
Maybe he could be called the " The Bull" or " The Rhino" :P
Anyone wanting to trade in a financed Hyundai
Here is my "Twilight Zone" Up:
1:00PM: A very prim and proper customer arrives at the dealership on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. She is carrying a notepad and HP12C in her hand. When greeted, she demands to see every version of Altima on your lot.
1:30PM: After showing her several models of the Altima, she decides she would like to test drive an Altima 2-door SE with leather.
1:50PM: After the test drive, you both pass by the new Maximas while walking back to the showroom. She notices a shiny black Maxima SE, and mentions she forgot all about the Maxima. She requests a test drive in the Maxima.
2:10PM: After the Maxima test drive, she indicates she might need more cargo space. "Let's take a ride in a Murano before I rule it out."
2:30PM: During the Murano test drive, she indicates the guy at ABC Nissan offered her a new Murano a few months ago for only $23K. How much lower can you go?
Not wanting to take a thousand dollar loss on this vehicle, you try to change the topic. "We have an excellent lease deal on this." She replies she might have trouble getting a good lease due to her bankruptcy two years ago.
"Don't worry, I have $500 cash for the down payment. I also have a trade-in that is in excellent condition. It's a 2001 Daewoo Leganza LX, the top-of-the-line Leganza, with only 38,000 miles on it!"
3:30PM: You and your manager discover she still owes $10K on that top-of-the-line Leganza loan!
5:00PM: She finally agrees to take a look at a 2004 Sentra. However, she is very unhappy with reality, even though you worked with her for over an hour to trim the price as low as possible. After 4 hours of biting your tongue and doing everything possible to make this sale, you net $120.
5:45PM: She is even unhappier with the 15.5% financing she received from F & I.
Two weeks later, your CSI score arrives.
Wow COTMC have you been looking over my shoulder!
tidester, host
SUVs and Smart Shopper
The darn best movie in almost 10 years. You can see it again and again and you will not be tired.
Kudos to Owen Wilson (Lightning McQueen) and Larry the Cable-Guy(Mater).
Mack, my son has the same 2 favorite movies.
He either wants to watch cars or spiderman.
Time and again, I read over here how people with a beacon over 720 were offered rates well above prime (or new car rates).
Few years ago, when I had NO credit history, I got a 4.9% finance rate on a new car.
some years down later, my wife who also had NO credit history got 6.5% interest rate on a CPO Lexus.
In short, I am confused why F&I even proposes such high rates to people with good credit when we, with NO credit could get better, without haggling.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Why am I not surprised to hear this from you? :P
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
By the way, I accidently ran into a picture of you and your wife on Edmunds. She is absolutely lovely. You two look like we did 30 years ago. Still, my wife has held her own but NOT me. After the army life and now the car biz, you are one lucky fella to have kept that pretty lady. It's weird but car biz folks always have good looking wives. I guess you make it and they spend it---keeps them happy.
Not to mention a salesmans lack of fear of rejection.
Oh and congrats on the new ride. I didn't look back at your previous posts...was that a Hyundai?
The customer who drives in with a rental car. No trade in to deal with, they probably just wrecked their car, and you know they are in the market, and are buying within the next week.
I was that up once. Except it was a corporate relo, not a wreck. They refused to let me go for a test drive because I did not have an in state license yet as I had not gone to the DMV. :confuse: I was in such a hurry to buy a car, the guy I eventually bought from took the first offer and returned with a big smile. I was his baby seal that month. :sick:
Mandarin is the "official" language of China & Taiwan too, for that matter.
You don't really believe all that stuff the guys in the biz post about UP's, do ya? Maybe one guy might have had a bad experience and the rest of them repeat the tale as if it happened to them. There can't be as many as they cry about.
And if any of them had an experience anywhere close to what you described, they probably deserved it for the way their predecessors treated that buyers grandfather.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
Money had nothing to do with I can promise you that. When we were first married we had to save up to order a pizza and rent a movie once a month. We lived in a 400 SF apartment that was a converted attic in some peoples house in upstate NY at FT Drum that you could only stand up straight in half of it because of the roof line. We used to dream about if we could only have a combined income of $30K we would be on easy street
Now we are both successful in our careers and I would give anything to be living back in that apartment trying to scrape enough change together to buy gas and hoped it lasted till pay day.
Ok if your ever in Nashville and need a car, from the Airport go north on Donelson PK, when you come to the intersection of............. Oh hell just call me, I will come pick you up for a deal like that.
I suggest you take that convertible out for long drive. Maybe even get some flowers and think about what you're going to say when you get back, because I just linked your post to an e-mail and hit the send button.
BTW, do you have enough hair to blow in the wind when you put the top down. Isn't that the fun of owning a convertible. :surprise:
Enjoy your new wheels, if only until you get home.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
seems to me, its the ford financed customers who are the worst off here! :P
yet you bought a chrysler????!!!!
you know what they say about people who live in glass houses.....
LOL..................
Fords aren't exactly stellar when it comes to resale either!
:P
Your twilight zone up happens more than you think. Ussualy takes a little bit more of your time. Bet you are pretty close.
03 escape
02 pt
07 civic
BTW, you're making me nervous. You didn't comment on the car deal. Don't tell me that after all of my time at Edmunds.com that I screwed up again. Wonder what Mackabee will say? Hope he isn't too sick today. Those treatments can be hell.