Confessions of an Over-The-Hill Used Car Salesman

Confessions of an Over-The-Hill Used Car Salesman
Confessions of an Over-The-Hill Used Car Salesman
My nearly 30 years as a salesman, lease manager, sales manager, and finance manager gets you lots of 'insider' information about the car business from someone who knows...
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7/05 19:36 How Do I Love The Car BusinessLet Me Count The Ways
Even though I don't work the long hours in the biz as I used to (now it's weekends only) these are, or should I say were, the reasons I used to love the car business... I loved working ‘bell to bell' I loved getting a $200 pay check for a 70...
5/24 7:44 In The Beginning
How it all began 1981 was a very bad year . I had just gotten divorced, was forced to sell my house, gotten dumped by the other woman, quit my job, become homeless, totaled my carand lost my self-respectall in the space of 12 months. Yes, 1981 was a...
5/27 16:57 All Buyers Are Liars!
All buyers are liars. Thats one of the first things I learned when I got into the car biz back in 1981. Whenever a potential customer would tell me they wanted to: A) go home to think about it B) go to lunch to think about it I knew what they were...
5/29 8:34 Bad Credit Financing Is A Thing OF The PastOr Is It?
With all the bad news about the economy and the auto industry in particular, there are a lot of potential car buyers that need help financing a car. But most dealerships cant finance problem credit. I suppose were one of the lucky ones I work for a...
6/04 8:22 Trimming Away The Fat From The Corpse That Is GM
GM is cutting away the fat and will return leaner and meaner...or that's the general idea. First it was Oldsmobile in 2004, one of the oldest American car lines, which began life back in 1901 and continued for over 100 years as one of GM's most...

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