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Auto Sales Must Be Booming?

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Crossroads in Cuyahoga Falls and Stow, Ohio

Car salesman

Auto Sales Must Be Booming right now.  

Or are they?

I don't get this.  I took my car in for service yesterday and while waiting for my wife to come pick me up I spent about 20 minutes in the showroom.  During those 20 minutes I looked carefully at each of the six or seven new vehicles on the showroom floor.  I looked at the sticker price.  I looked at the posted milage.  I looked at the options. I also looked inside each and every one of them.

I kept wondering when one of the 6 salespeople lingering in the showroom would approach me.  Kept wondering and wondering right up until I walked past the two who held the doors open for me when I walked out the front door.  That's the only time any one of them spoke to me.

Wow.  Like I said.  I just don't get this.  Especially being so close to the end of the month I always thought car salespeople had to bust ass to either meet or exceed their quota by the end of the month.  

So was March such a good month of auto sales that they were just too pooped to sell any more?  Or was it such a bad month that they were just totally demoralized and not even trying to sell cars?  Or did I catch them on a day when they were sworn to a vowell of silence for the day?

I just don't get it.  I'm coming to the end of my current lease and beginning to think about a new vehicle.  Maybe this is the future of car dealers........self service?  Could it be?

 

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Tony Morganti, CRS, ABR

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Lenn Harley
Lenn Harley, Homefinders.com, MD & VA Homes and Real Estate - Leesburg, VA
Real Estate Broker - Virginia & Maryland

HA!  Try being an older woman and getting any kind of service in a showroom.

I went into a Chevy showroom a while back and while looking at a vehicle on the floor I approached a sales person and mentioned that I was interesting in a new car. He looked at me and said, "Well, we've got a lot of them" and walked away.

Have to admit that I got better service at the Toyota dealers.  I now drive a Toyota.

Mar 27, 2014 08:29 AM
Bette Gottwald
UNITED REAL ESTATE | Central PA - Mechanicsburg, PA
"Bet"on Central PA Real Estate!

I swear, there must be a new breed of car salespeople everywhere, and most of them seem to lack ambition.  Tony, I too had a similar experience this past week.

Mar 27, 2014 10:27 AM