Car Salesmen Definitely Earn Their Reputation
Tagged as: Apr 25Do you like car salesmen? I don’t.
They’re pushy, they’re slightly overbearing, and they only want to be your friends to make money off of you.
Case in point:
I read an article about an incident that outraged me. It also solidified my distaste for car salesmen. In the May 2007 edition of Car and Driver magazine, I saw an article about a man who went into a dealership to buy a car. He ended up buying a GMC Canyon. This man was mentally disabled (he was later reported to have had feces-covered pants on) with a reported IQ (from a relative) of 70.
To buy the Canyon, the man paid in cash (approximately $30,000) and ended up telling the salesman that he actually had a lot more cash at home. Granted this isn’t exactly a wise thing to do, but this man was also understandably mentally disabled.
Events proceeded and the man one day thought that his truck had been stolen (when in fact it turned out to have been towed). He called up his salesman buddy for a ride who then took him to the tow yard. While driving him, the other salesmen who had conspired together proceeded to go to the man’s home and steal the money. They ended up leaving with $70,000.
The police then came to the house to investigate the crime and upon finding feces throughout the house, had the mentally disabled man committed to an institute. A salesman kindly took the time to go to the institute, get the man to sign over the Canyon to him, and charged him for the time that it took to do so!
Subsequently, lawsuits were brought against many of the salesmen, the dealership returned the $100,000 to the man, and some semblance of justice was served.
Suffice to say, I am still not impressed with salesmen. Especially those of the car variety.
that’s really sad, derek..
yeah…it’s really sad that people would exploit others in such a fashion…
oh my gosh. this is seriously a true story? thats horrible.
dont over generalize tho! not all salesmen are of this type!
@tiff
Yeah I thought it was pretty sad, too.
@syckie
Well look at you commenting and stuff.
@kiki
As far as I know, it’s true. That takes some trust in Car and Driver to have only printed a true story, but I think that’s a safe enough trust.
As for generalizing about salesmen, point well taken. However, I think that I am still wary of nearly all salesmen because their end goal is to get you to buy something to usually profit themselves. And that definitely makes me cautious because it is very easy in that scenario for the salesman to not care at all about me and care very much about themselves. Does that make sense? Of course it’s not hardly ever going to be true that a statement is true in EVERY case. However, by the very nature of their profession, salesmen should not be trusted (at least not without a grain of salt and some due diligence).
haha, i like your comment at syckie. hahahha..