Stupid things salesmen say.
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Buying my 530d from a main dealer this week I was staggered by the utter bs the salesman kept sprouting.
I believe it was someone on here who said that the only thing the salesman knows about your car is the price but this was extreme.
Having bought 2 BMWs from this dealer in the last 2 months the salesman asks was the reason we have bought a 118d & a 530d BMW's brand image?
I reply that actually I have had about 5 BMW's over the years but nothing post 1990, but have a lot of respect for the history of the brand and the engineering, something about the 5 series being the core of the brand...
He then says yes, but BMW only really got big after they let James Bond drive a 5 series in that film where the car gets driven by a mobile phone!!!!!!!
Seriously? Not back to back ETC victories? Has he never heard of Nelson Piquet? How about Aero engines since WW1? Or the first German Jets?
Thought about calling him on it but will wait until the car is collected before doing that.
Has anyone had similar experiences of having someone working in sales in an environment they neither know or care nothing about?
I believe it was someone on here who said that the only thing the salesman knows about your car is the price but this was extreme.
Having bought 2 BMWs from this dealer in the last 2 months the salesman asks was the reason we have bought a 118d & a 530d BMW's brand image?
I reply that actually I have had about 5 BMW's over the years but nothing post 1990, but have a lot of respect for the history of the brand and the engineering, something about the 5 series being the core of the brand...
He then says yes, but BMW only really got big after they let James Bond drive a 5 series in that film where the car gets driven by a mobile phone!!!!!!!
Seriously? Not back to back ETC victories? Has he never heard of Nelson Piquet? How about Aero engines since WW1? Or the first German Jets?
Thought about calling him on it but will wait until the car is collected before doing that.
Has anyone had similar experiences of having someone working in sales in an environment they neither know or care nothing about?
Oh dear...
This was not meant to be a dig at salespeople in general, more a light hearted look at some of the dafter things they utter.
The salesman in question is good with the numbers and has driven a hard but fair deal on my 530d & my wife's 118d and I am happy to go back to see him and give him my future business, but he does have very little knowledge of BMW's history, but as he is not selling E28's or Neu Klasse saloons that us okay! :-)
This was not meant to be a dig at salespeople in general, more a light hearted look at some of the dafter things they utter.
The salesman in question is good with the numbers and has driven a hard but fair deal on my 530d & my wife's 118d and I am happy to go back to see him and give him my future business, but he does have very little knowledge of BMW's history, but as he is not selling E28's or Neu Klasse saloons that us okay! :-)
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