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Originally Posted by LivinLoudX54.4
Being a former Pontiac Cadillac and GMC salesmen i can understand where they are coming from. Certain vehicles that we had in stock couldn't be test driven with out atleast credit being run. This helps weed out the tire kickers just looking to go out and throw a 500+HP car around on a saturday afternoon. Now i can see where OP is coming from how he feels they should be bowing down to him as well with the way things are these days. It is pretty hard to sell a 20K Pontiac with a good amount of miles on it let alone a 50K car with a lot of miles on it.
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Excuse me, but without the tire kickers and consumers looking to throw around a 500hp car on a Saturday afternoon, you don't have an industry.
I am a tire kicker. I test drive cars all the time. Sometimes for friends, sometimes for myself. Guess what, car that impresses me the best wins my vote!
- Had Porsche not allowed us to test drive the Cayenne GTS in a manual transmission cause they were afraid of what we might do to the clutch, then the Cayenne GTS would not have been on the shortlist for cars we may buy. It was the drive that sold the car, not the slovenly salesman who doesn't know the difference between a V8 and inline 6.
Lets go a step further. My brother may not decide to buy the Cayenne GTS. He may get the Merc instead. But my lease on my 7 Series comes up in September. And guess what my second choice of vehicles is now behind the X5 ///M edition? And guess what car I'm going to lease if the X5 ///M edition doesn't have good lease numbers? Well, in case you hadn't guessed it, it will be a Cayenne GTS in Manual Transmission.
So here's the big difference. BMW, Audi, Mercedes knows that even a tire kicker is a potential sale and they want you to test drive their cars. The American car companies think that anyone who isn't ready to sign on the dotted line is a waste of time. And that is why the other car companies aren't suffering as bad as the American car companies.. Or at least, that's one of the reasons among many.
So as a former Cadillac and GM salesman, I can promise you that your desire to prevent the tire kickers from getting a free Saturday ride effected your bottom line. The unfortunate part is, neither you nor the dealership could qualify those numbers because you were turning away customers without even realizing it.
You want to check my credit for a test drive, sure, go ahead, it's in my pants right behind the zipper. Just be gentle.
P.S. what size bra size does your wife wear and is she into kinky sex?
-- Furthermore, could you imagine if you were selling real estate and you decided that the only people that could visit a house you are the selling broker on are those that you "pre-qualify". That all the neighborhood busy bodies who like to home shop on Saturdays are a waste of your time and energy...
Do you have any idea how many people have bought houses that never planned on it because they were "house visiting" with nothing else to do on a Saturday?
Sorry, but sometimes the stupid mentality of this type of behavior really grinds my gears, ESPECIALLY in the worst economic climate since the GREAT DEPRESSION... Double the fact that my tax money is going to these companies for bail out...