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Since when were you Mr High and Mighty Moral Standards, then?

 

SteveH says...

When it comes to being a professional salesman, ever since I decided I
wouldn't sell any old shite to any old punter - in other words, a long
long time ago, way before I started posting here.

You'll maybe have forgotten my stand against selling AGV lids when I ran
a Gericke shop. That was just one manufacturer whose products I refused
to promote, and the list is long and goes back many many years.

When it comes to women, I have no moral standards, becaue the majority
of women I've known don't either.

 

Would you enjoy selling any ol' crap? I don't think so, but I've seen
you in action a few times when you were selling stuff that had the
attributes that you mentioned, mainly to the detriment of my wallet .

But maybe you should consider doing something sales-related, like when
you sorted out a certain HG shop (for a while unfortunately, I went
back after you upped sticks and it was nearly as bad as before), only
this time for a proper pay packet?

 

That's the difference between Lozzo and you - no offense, but I can't
see him do that.

 

I can fully understand it when it's safety-critical kit, but when it's
flogging cheap computers to people who haven't done any research, I
didn't feel too bad about it.

Flogging extended warranties to pensioners was another issue, though.
(Especially when it was obvious the warranty would outlast them)

Heh.

 

SteveH says...

I'd find it impossible and I'd last about an hour in the job.

I just couldn't do it. I am at a loss to understand how anyone can.

 

Indeed. But would you really want to do 35k miles / year in a car with
all your crap rattling about on the back seat?

 

Caveat Emptor, innit, especially when selling disposable consumer goods.

 

SteveH coughed up:

When I dumped the company car thing a few years back I bought a 3 door
Golf GTi.

I did a huge mileage, and the seats were almost always folded flat due
to all the crap I had to carry about.

I never really thought about it. It was a car, it started, stopped and
did car stuff.

It was immensely more practical than the Jag S Type I chopped in, and
didn't depreciate like **** either.

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Dan L

http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

*shrugs*

That would drive me nuts. The inside of my car is always free of crap
and immaculately clean.

I can't stand cars with dirty, cluttered interiors.

 

Timo Geusch says...

The nicest thing about selling quality stuff is it almost sells itself.
Your customer knows he wants it, your biggest job is working him/her
into justifying the expense.

What have you got then?

 

SteveH coughed up:

Bloody hell, I am ashamed to say that the SO Hyundai had become so crap
infested that SWMBO washed and hoovered it out for me last weekend.

I really like having a clean car, but am shit at using one on a daily
basis and keeping it so.



--
Dan L

http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

Don't tell anyone.... but I keep a couple of packs of interior wipes in
the glovebox - one for fabrics, the other for hard surfaces. They smell
of apples, which is nice.

 

So did I, albeit not as a rep. Rover 216 Vitesse!

 

LOL. How true.

 

So am I. It may be right or wrong, but a lot of people really do. In a
lot of milieux, in the absence of uniforms and badges of rank, it's a
status-indicator.

To take an analogy - some people dress in the best, most expensive suit
they can. Some people, in the same line of work, shamble up in T-shirt
and jeans. A suit impresses more.

If you can make a valid distinction between first impressions called up
by the flashy car or the flashy suit, amd why there's a big difference,
I'd like to hear it. I think people evaluate.

 

It's the way a lot of companies work.

I remember the ad reps in a company I edited a title for, back in the
mid-1980s, frantically jostling to get Escort Ghias, or XR3is, or
whatever, rather than 1.6GLs, to show their importance and status.

Me, I took a car downgrade to the office hack in exchange for a pay
rise.

 

SteveH coughed up:

That is so wrong, on so many levels.

You should meet my missus, her car is always immaculate, always
garaged, and polished at least once per month with Autoglym's finest.

She got very pissy when I had to use it for work a few times last year,
and went fucking mad when she found a flake of Ginsters Pasty on the
seat.

--
Dan L

http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

Sorry, that was more a suggestion - I seriously doubt that you'd be
interested in sales in "my" industry[1].

[1] Investment banking, not IT.

 

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Ah yes, XR3Is. Turbos. Case took delivery of twenty of those, with
accompanying publicity from Ford. All new, all white - I think they were
the first fleet sale.

A month later, they'd all been written off. Oops.

Mind you, I had a Cavalier GLSi, which one of our engineers fiddled with,
and I took the badges off it. Great fun at traffic lights.

Ali