throw on a nice blazer, pull the sleeves up over your forearm, looks great, smart casual!

No, you will look like Don Johnson in his Miami Vice days :2 cents:

yep same story here... six years ago in my 20's I walked into Reeves auto in Tampa with my mind set that I would be driving home in a super charged Range Rover

Black with braided hair with a white T shirt and air jordans on I was ignored bythe entire sales staff. Finally one of the receptionist asked me if I needed help and I told her I wanted to buy a white Range Rover in cash

she sent a saes guy to talk to me and from the start his whole attitude gave off a "you ae wasting my time energy"

I told him Iwasnt sure but was going to go grab a bite to eat and think about it.

When I came back this same sales guy looked right at me and completely ignored me although I had just told him 30 minutes earlier that I wuld be back.

after about 10 minutes another sales guy asked me if he could help me .. told him I wanted the showroom Range taken out so I could drive it

he was hesitant but did it anyway

I bought the truck in cash for 90k total with all the extras. The other guy admited he thought I was full of shit and he lost a grat sale

was my first range rover and I still have tha one also and that sales guy still works there and whenever I tke it in for service I make a point to make sure he sees me as a reminder

we have since purchased another Range Rover and a LR3 from the same dealership but never from that sales guy.

Yes i do have such story.

As some people here know Nylos is a close friend of mine and one day he wanted to buy a Jaguar so we went to the Jaguar dealer looking all casual to look at some models and we were in BUYERS MINDSET. We were all over one nice model and the salesperson didn't even come up to as until we started asking him questions about the car. He answered a few questions and than he said "yeah, everybody gotta have something to dream about".
Nylos and i looked at each other like WTF and we headed outside jumped in Nylos's Hummer and took off driving by the showroom window, the look of the salesperson's face was priceless. We ended up buying a Jaguar from another dealer.:thumbsup

I was a salesperson myself for many many years and i learned that judging people buy their looks is just plain stupid.. body language tells you about everything you need to know.

stupid sellers, think they know who have money

In Narita airport, dressed in shorts and t-shirt. There was a huge boarding line and they had already called first class boarding. I walked passed and several people were yelling at me to go to the back of the line. I said nothing, whipped out my first class boarding pass, got on the plane took a few xanax and woke up in chicago.:thumbsup

all these stories are great when it turns the guy is rich and just looks like he has no money. The reality is that 99% of the time, you just waste 20-30 mintutes talking to some dude who just has nothing better to do with his time. This is usually how it is in my case, in the printing business. Most of the time you know straight from the start, how much a person is going to order and how much of a problem the order is going to be.
I've been wrong a couple of times in the last few years, but since I treat every customer well it hasn't been an issue.

:2 cents:

whats funny is in our business...someone will know you are big sales for them and still treat you like shit

I dunno, if you don't want to be treated like a piece of shit you could always stop looking like one?

You guys buying all these cars cash must be doing well so I'd assume you would do your share of hiring at some point--which brings up an interesting question. When someone shows up for a job interview dressed to the fives do you count that against them? I mean, we are talking about equality and not judging books by its cover so i'd call it a valid question here. ;)

I agree that it's crap to treat people this way, and it's happened to me in the past but I think there is a second perspective here that we aren't seeing is all.

I am good friends with the owners of almost every dealership in a affluent community. The one friend who owns the Chevrolet Dealership was telling me how all his salesman were hurting for sales, they don't make much and never do. He also told me he would see them out at night at the clubs acting like " bawlers " sitting in the VIP but knew they really couldn't afford it. At least with what they were making at the dealership. BTW this was in 2004 before the bottom fell out.

There may be one ore two salesman that do really well ( approaching six figures ) but that's only because they don't act like the salesman in this thread and treat EVERYONE as a potential sale and know what to do to close the deal. They are the exceptions.

The point of this thread is you can't judge a book by it's cover so there is no way ANY salseman can know how much money a new customer has until he finds out. If he wants to make a sale he better approach all 200 " rats " and through his sales approach weed out the tire kickers from the buyers. You don't do that with just a glance.

Avatar shades, i knew i had forgotten something!

That's a different situation and the answer would be no.

3 reasons; 1) the douche factor, 2) the fat factor. 3) the dweeb factor

In other words Drinkinghard hangs around a lot of fattys, douches, and dweebs.

The irony about all these dealership stories is that car salesman make fuck all :1orglaugh

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I would love to know how many of these stories are completely fake, heh.

No matter what I wear I'll always be brushed off...

I walked into a McDonald's last week and the cashier just stared at me like I was trash, so I scooted over to the nice young girl beside her. I ordered a Double Quarter Pounder w/cheese and fucking SUPERSIZED that bitch. Hmmph.

Experienced sales people of luxury goods know that very wealthy people tend to dress like bums the most. They are so rich, they do not care what others think, and do not need to impress people. These people collect businesses and islands not designer brands.

They also dress like this because THEY CAN. I have been in meetings with lots of attorneys and other powerful people all in fancy suits, nice shoes - belts and the head guy doing the deal comes in jeans, flip flops and a old worn t-shirt. It was VERY clear who THE MAN was in the room.

I was looking at BMWs at 2 local dealerships.. this was about 2-3 years ago.
I always dress pretty casual, I look fairly young, and was still driving my old Cavalier that I had for probably 6 years.

The first dealership, nobody even bothered to come talk to me. I looked around and left.

The second dealership, I was looking and at least someone came out to talk to me. But, he went off on an ego trip about how he owned a BMW and that you had to take care of it and I shouldn't buy it if I wasn't going to take care of the car properly.

At the time I could have paid cash for it. The salesman kept trying to get me to tell him how much I made and how much I wanted to spend on the car. I was so annoyed that I left.

Needless to say, I went elsewhere to buy.

You shouldn't have given them your money, man.

This EXACT same thing happened to me. So without a word I walked out, went down the block and bought a burger at In-n-out.

Paid CASH.

And then I went back to McDonalds and rolled by the window and shouted at the cashier who'd ignored me, "Double-double, bitch! Animal style. Don't hate!"

:1orglaugh I wasn't smart enough to think of that.

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Thats why I always go to the King:1orglaugh

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call me a hater but im getting kind of bored of your threads that serve no purpose whatsoever to show off how much money you have... it's pretty transparent.

i liked the 'buy the dealership' one.. that'll show em!

It's also the least believable.

You can't just buy a dealership.

Yeah, when I first started making really g ood money back in 2001. I went into the bank with a hat on, shorts, funky t-shirt, i was 25 years old. I wanted to speak to someone about getting a mortgage to buy a house. She had the look like i was wasting her time. She asked, well how much do you make and I told her "200". She looked confused like, wtf 200 dollars ? I said 200K, last year and gave her a copy of my tax returns from the previous year. Well needless to say once she saw that I made a LOT more than her she was kissing my ass, getting me something to drink, and trying to set me up with a checking, savings, cds, etc etc etc...

I was selling cars back in college for a couple months. My first day on the job, this 70 year old black guy and his family wanted to look at a new van. Im thinking i wonder if this guy can get credit and afford the down payment. We go to do the paper work and I mention financing and he says no, I have the cash here with me I will be paying cash.

I learned early never judge people by the way they look or are dressed, you never know.

If you are walking into a dealership, you are there to give them business. You aren't telling yourself you should get dressed up because you want to look sharper than the other guys there buying the same car.

Walking in to get a job is totally different. I never judge an interview by the way the guy is dressed. Actually, when I see a guy interviewing with a suit on in this business, it actually shocks me and I tell them they are overdressed. The average guy looking for a job won't come in with shorts. But the average guy will go buy a car in shorts.

I walked into the dealership wearing a wife beater and my thong underwear. I got 4 salespeople hovering at me within seconds (3 of them wear gay men).

typically the people who don't have much money are the ones judging. The people who make a lot of money either know what it is like to be judged or are smart enough to know better.

prolly because of your iguana, hanging out of your ass.

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Departure Arrival Flight Duration Cabin
15:45Miami 06:40+1Frankfurt LH463
8h55 First (F)
09:45Frankfurt 13:35Miami LH462
9h50 First (F)
Total Price
Fare
(per person) Taxes, fees and charges
(per person) Passengers Total
16599.00 + 377.80 x 1 Adult = USD 16976.80
Per person
4 tickets total USD 67,902.20

Went to Germany recently, wanted these 4 tickets (First Class all the Way).
Girl gives me a really hard time while trying to buy them, until I set down the Black card, amazing how sweet they got then....

nah the iguana was at the vet. He had diarrea at the time

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Great write off for your business. :thumbsup

can't you rent a private plane for that price? and if you pay that, are the stewardesses included? i think i would have to have Bill Gates' money before i even remotely think about spending that much on flight.