There are people in every business who do not know what they are talking about yet continue to try to influence one party or another. In Real Estate, fair & honest dealing and fiduciary helps to check mate this but not stop it completely. So what happens is occasionally there will be someone somewhere who talks gibberish fluently and that just isn't going to cut it...ever
BEING INFORMED
Lets take local Real Estate agents. As a general rule, they know their own markets. They can talk shop about the neighborhood, events, past present and future and if they don't know something, they will find out. There is a comfort level that is introduced when buying from someone who knows what they are speaking of as demonstrated by the time they took to find out on the subject matter
ANSWER THE QUESTION
Then there are those that can imitate the above and when questioned rely on gibberish, aggressive sales or changing of the subject to answer relevant questions. If you stop and listen to someones response to a bona fide question and receive nonsense or evasiveness in response, you will see this for yourself. These people answer you to get rid of the question and not to answer the question
MAKING UP ANSWERS?
Why don't people say they don't know or I will go find out and invest in some credibility or getting to know you dynamics? Because they are not in it for you to win it but for them to win it and that just wont do. I asked a man the other day a simple relevant question which bothered him because he didn't have the answer so he made one up. MY Response? Oh, so you really don't know...do you...He acquiesced. However he should have said that
THE PRODUCT AND THE PERSON SHOULD SELL ITSELF
You find these well dressed PYTHONS just about everywhere and in different businesses. The car industry is famous for it and is the shoe industry as well.... although with shoes, if done incorrectly, sore feet and a return to the store settles that score. With cars, your stuck big time. If done in Real Estate and they get away with it...I'LL SEE YOU COURT is the typical follow up
I USED TO ASK WAY BEFORE IT WAS A LAW
Now a days they list the ingredients of food sold wherever you go along with nutritional information too. But there was a time where people could not answer that question but assured you how delicious the food was. It's so good and I eat it myself too. I know its delicious etc. I am not asking you that. I am asking calorie count, what type of fat or oil and ingredients. Gibberish at work..
YOU SEE IT IN THE RAIN TOO
On ActiveRain, you can tell the ones who really know theIR business by the way they post about the subject matter or when they respond to a subject. It becomes obivous by reason of being self-evident as to whether that person knows or does not know. By the same token, shallow, safe or distant answers give you away all the time too
POPEYE THE SAILOR MAIN...well liked
I am what I am and that's all that I am.....honesty at work...because he said the obvious and that is a good answer to give
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