sfsuphysics
Supporting Member
Without trying to sound sexist I want to see what a saleswoman would be like.
So a new car is in the future, and I haven't really dealt with salesmen before, my last car bought 11 years ago didn't require a salesman because I knew exactly what I wanted to buy when I walked into the dealer, and my previous car before that was a hand-be-down from my parents
Over the past few weeks visited a couple Toyota places, and today we did Honda and Subaru. The first Toyota place "City Toyota" had this huge parking garage structure, but unfortunately we got a "junior sales associate" to help us and other than him reading what was on the sticker we got zero help. None of the cars were unlocked, and he seemed put off by needing to get a key and seemed quite content with trying to point out features through a window to us, so when we left I have renamed the place in South Park fashion "Shitty Toyota". The other Toyota place was Melody in San Bruno, and our guy Jeff was fricking awesome, I mean he wasn't pushy, he didn't talk down to us, he offered to go get a hybrid Rav4 from another lot a block away just so we could look at it. I mean it was almost creepy as the anti-stereotype of a salesman.
Today we ran into super push dude at Subaru which wasn't horrible as he was your typical "this is what I think of when I think car salesman" person, but the winner of our outing was ultra condescending Charles at Honda, no Charles we don't want you to get a key to open a door we're totally happy to try and see inside the car though the dirty ass tinted window, oh really Charles thanks for making me feel stupid by not knowing that a moon roof can be opened, and that sunroof is either open or closed. And thanks a bunch Charles for telling me any incentive deals would only be told to me if I was willing to buy right then...a serious jerk.
My wife had some car manufacturers she was interested in, and she had a type in mind ("Crossover" SUV) and the salesman had one job, help us want to pick your car over another by telling us everything it can do and letting us decide what we want to buy.
So a new car is in the future, and I haven't really dealt with salesmen before, my last car bought 11 years ago didn't require a salesman because I knew exactly what I wanted to buy when I walked into the dealer, and my previous car before that was a hand-be-down from my parents
Over the past few weeks visited a couple Toyota places, and today we did Honda and Subaru. The first Toyota place "City Toyota" had this huge parking garage structure, but unfortunately we got a "junior sales associate" to help us and other than him reading what was on the sticker we got zero help. None of the cars were unlocked, and he seemed put off by needing to get a key and seemed quite content with trying to point out features through a window to us, so when we left I have renamed the place in South Park fashion "Shitty Toyota". The other Toyota place was Melody in San Bruno, and our guy Jeff was fricking awesome, I mean he wasn't pushy, he didn't talk down to us, he offered to go get a hybrid Rav4 from another lot a block away just so we could look at it. I mean it was almost creepy as the anti-stereotype of a salesman.
Today we ran into super push dude at Subaru which wasn't horrible as he was your typical "this is what I think of when I think car salesman" person, but the winner of our outing was ultra condescending Charles at Honda, no Charles we don't want you to get a key to open a door we're totally happy to try and see inside the car though the dirty ass tinted window, oh really Charles thanks for making me feel stupid by not knowing that a moon roof can be opened, and that sunroof is either open or closed. And thanks a bunch Charles for telling me any incentive deals would only be told to me if I was willing to buy right then...a serious jerk.
My wife had some car manufacturers she was interested in, and she had a type in mind ("Crossover" SUV) and the salesman had one job, help us want to pick your car over another by telling us everything it can do and letting us decide what we want to buy.