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I am thinking of becoming a car salesman. I have been in sales for over 5 years and love it. Is there anyone here who is a car salesman or has sold cars before? Did/do you like the job? Any advice?? Thanks

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Pm me. with specific ?'s. I would be glad to help.

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i am thinking of buying a new car soon, is sept-nov the best time to buy b/c of the new model years coming in?

it will be my first new car purchase so any help appreciated

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Yes, from what my dad says, prices for slightly used cars drop around this time of year. Well, now that I think about it, he may be BS'ing, because he says he wont co-sign a loan for my car until sept/oct..but that was his reason.

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i would like to read this conversation. why take it private?

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A friend of mine has been selling cars for 4 years. I'm not sure how much he enjoys it. He's very good at it, and has all the qualities you would expect to see in a successful car salesman. He talks a lot about different careers he wants to get into. His salary is decent, but he works 60 hrs/week on average to earn it.

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Pm me. with specific ?'s. I would be glad to help.

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i would like to read this conversation. why take it private?

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I spent 15 years in the car business. Like a lot of things in life, you get out of it exactly what you put into it. It can be the easiest high paying job or the hardest low paying job you've ever had. I worked from salesman to desk manager to finance manager eventually becoming the used car sales manager.

It can be a great job if you can find the right store. Though that can be hard to do when you are not sure what to look for.

Like others have stated, if you have any specific questions, I'll be happy to answer them in this thread.

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Pm me. with specific ?'s. I would be glad to help.

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i would like to read this conversation. why take it private?

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Ooh! Me too!

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Ask BUD about selling cars thread!!!

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Well I just met a manager at the Lexus dealership here in san jose. He said if I wanted to give selling cars a shot to come see him. I think I would love the job and be good at it. I wa just wondering things like: is it a stressful job? Fun? I would think you would have to put in long hours. About how many per week? Would you recomend selling cars? Any info would help.

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There's some article on Edmunds.com about a writer who becomes a car salesman for a month or two and then relates his experience. It's a pretty good read.

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Well I just met a manager at the Lexus dealership here in san jose. He said if I wanted to give selling cars a shot to come see him. I think I would love the job and be good at it. I wa just wondering things like: is it a stressful job? Fun? I would think you would have to put in long hours. About how many per week? Would you recomend selling cars? Any info would help.

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Well I just met a manager at the Lexus dealership here in san jose. He said if I wanted to give selling cars a shot to come see him. I think I would love the job and be good at it. I wa just wondering things like: is it a stressful job? Fun? I would think you would have to put in long hours. About how many per week? Would you recomend selling cars? Any info would help.

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Stressful only in the sense that if you don't sell, you don't eat. Straight commission jobs take a special mindset.

As for hours, it is a retail sales position. Which means holidays, weekends and evenings. A typical two salesteam schedule would look something like this.

8-4 every other day. 3-close in between. Tuesdays off. Wed., while other team was off, you work open to close. Every third weekend off. Of course, during other team's weekend off, you would work open to close Fri, Sat, Sun. A nice long weekend. You can pile up the hours fast. And don't forget, on Friday, even on your day off, you are expected to attend the Friday morning sales meeting [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Stressful only in the sense that if you don't sell, you don't eat. Straight commission jobs take a special mindset.

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Alot of dealerships are getting away from the straight commission, especially those who are doing well selling the lower cost foreign cars.

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Like others have stated, if you have any specific questions, I'll be happy to answer them in this thread.

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Do they give you a phrase book with all the standard sayings in it, like "So, what's it going to take to get you to buy this car today."

Why do some dealers have a policy of not answering the question when you ask them the price of a used car? They always come back with something like, "Well, how much did you want to spend?" I don't do business with such people.

Where do you go and what do you do when you say, "I'll have to go check with my manager on that."?

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Where do you go and what do you do when you say, "I'll have to go check with my manager on that."?

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You've never watched "Fargo"?

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Where do you go and what do you do when you say, "I'll have to go check with my manager on that."?

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You've never watched "Fargo"?

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Theres a reality show on A&E about a car dealership. Surprisingly, a guy actually did go talk to his manager after saying that to a customer. But I guess that could just be because it was being taped.

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I do not think most of the used car market should go any lower than it already is. As for the pm stuff, I guess I wanted to help by addressing the op without the noise of the forum affecting the discussion, but if anyone has any specific ?'s i would be glad to help.
sincerely
bud

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Where do you go and what do you do when you say, "I'll have to go check with my manager on that."?

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You've never watched "Fargo"?

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Oh, ya. Dat was a good show dere, you betcha.

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Do they give you a phrase book with all the standard sayings in it, like "So, what's it going to take to get you to buy this car today."

Why do some dealers have a policy of not answering the question when you ask them the price of a used car? They always come back with something like, "Well, how much did you want to spend?" I don't do business with such people.

Where do you go and what do you do when you say, "I'll have to go check with my manager on that."?

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#1. No, but you'd be shocked at how many people this type of phrase works on. When your in training, they go through alot of phrases and comments you can make that customers can't say the word "no" to. This is one of them.

#2. If they know how much you want to spend, they can move around the numbers. 95% of customers don't know crap about interest rates, or terms. So if you say "Well. I can spend 350" and your looking at a 10,000$ car..they're going to have a ton of room to negotiate. Basically as a salesman, it's your job to keep them concerned with the price/month and down payment. You never want them to touch the trade value or price of the car.

#3. Usually to see the manager. To be honest, most of the REAL [censored] in the car business are the managers. That's how they got there. The salesman would be glad to be up front and honest with you(most of the time, assuming your not a complete moron) because he wants to sell a car. Usually out of the 15 minutes the Salesman is gone. 5 minutesis talking about your deal, the other 10 minutes is just chit chatting.

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Well I just met a manager at the Lexus dealership here in san jose. He said if I wanted to give selling cars a shot to come see him. I think I would love the job and be good at it. I wa just wondering things like: is it a stressful job? Fun? I would think you would have to put in long hours. About how many per week? Would you recomend selling cars? Any info would help.

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The cool part about selling high line cars is usually you get to deal with customers as if they are a little more intelligent, and won't completely have to disrespect them. They also USUALLY keep their employees for longer than a standard dealership, where literally they change staff on a monthly basis.

The money will be very good, and you will probably not completely hate your job. Be ready for a minimum of 55 hours a week though, and be ready to have your phone handy 24/7 in case you need to run into the store to do a deal.

For a single guy, who likes cars(especially if they have an employee loaner program) it's not a bad job. But I personally wouldn't do it again, and I love sales.

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#1. No, but you'd be shocked at how many people this type of phrase works on. When your in training, they go through alot of phrases and comments you can make that customers can't say the word "no" to. This is one of them.


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That's basically Sales 101. Only ask questions that get people talking. Never ask questions where "no" can be answered. I've never sold cars, but I've used similar lines with very good success, and I do B2B where they already know all the "tricks."

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Here's the article from edmunds: Link.
Long but a very good read. And you can find out what happens when they go talk to the manager.