Hates Car Salesmen
Posted: January 15th, 2011, 11:45 am
A few of you already know I'm in the process of building a 323 for a toy, but I'm also in the process of getting rid of the is300 and trading for something that will give me more enjoyment for what I pay at the pump. So I've been looking and trying to find an STI or Evolution RS. Well being here in the south, there are a few for sale but none that are within what I'm looking for.
So for Shits and Giggles I decided to try the option autotrader has where we'll have the dealerships contact you if they have what you're looking for available. Now I already had it in my mind that this was going to be a nightmare of car salesmen trying to sell me something I didn't want, but I at least thought they would get an idea of what kind of car I was looking for. There was one section where you could leave comments about the car you were trying to buy. And I put in a very strong words that I was only looking for these 2 vehicles and I didn't care if they called me with a car that would pay me 1k dollars per mile I drive I wasn't interested, and that no matter what they said or had or how good of a salesman they thought they were I didn't want anything else and wasn't going to accept anything else. I was hoping this would take care of the sales guys just fishing to sale what ever they could... I was wrong.
Not going to go into all the convos but just some highlights from the calls...
1st call, guy calls me and trys to sell me an automatic 07 honda civic. I told him it wasn't either car I had mentioned before. response? Exact Quote "This is the number one tuner car right now, and can be made to go faster than any car on the market for next to nothing" ::Cell Phone Click::
2nd call, Same guy, didn't learn his lesson from the 1st call... Exact quote "Well I thought about the car you were trying to buy, and you're looking for a 4 door turbo vehicle, and well we have an Chevy HHR on the lot thats a turbo 4 door" ::Cell Phone Click::
3rd call, New guy same crap "Hi this is Richard from Rick Case Hyundai, I see you're interested in trading in your Is300, and I would just like to bring to you're attention this nice little family car we have thats great on gas and low on maintenance a 06 Hyundai Sonata" ::Cell Phone Click::
Really? Glad I'm using my google voice number, WTF.
So for Shits and Giggles I decided to try the option autotrader has where we'll have the dealerships contact you if they have what you're looking for available. Now I already had it in my mind that this was going to be a nightmare of car salesmen trying to sell me something I didn't want, but I at least thought they would get an idea of what kind of car I was looking for. There was one section where you could leave comments about the car you were trying to buy. And I put in a very strong words that I was only looking for these 2 vehicles and I didn't care if they called me with a car that would pay me 1k dollars per mile I drive I wasn't interested, and that no matter what they said or had or how good of a salesman they thought they were I didn't want anything else and wasn't going to accept anything else. I was hoping this would take care of the sales guys just fishing to sale what ever they could... I was wrong.
Not going to go into all the convos but just some highlights from the calls...
1st call, guy calls me and trys to sell me an automatic 07 honda civic. I told him it wasn't either car I had mentioned before. response? Exact Quote "This is the number one tuner car right now, and can be made to go faster than any car on the market for next to nothing" ::Cell Phone Click::
2nd call, Same guy, didn't learn his lesson from the 1st call... Exact quote "Well I thought about the car you were trying to buy, and you're looking for a 4 door turbo vehicle, and well we have an Chevy HHR on the lot thats a turbo 4 door" ::Cell Phone Click::
3rd call, New guy same crap "Hi this is Richard from Rick Case Hyundai, I see you're interested in trading in your Is300, and I would just like to bring to you're attention this nice little family car we have thats great on gas and low on maintenance a 06 Hyundai Sonata" ::Cell Phone Click::
Really? Glad I'm using my google voice number, WTF.