Every Car Salesman has a dream. To once, before death, to have sold a car for "full Pop" (Window Sticker). 95% are realists, knowing that such will never happen. It's akin to a "No-Hitter"pitched in baseball, a bottom of the 9th inning, bases loaded outta the park home run, a perfect 300 game in bowling, a "100" on a school test, a 1,600 on the SAT. 'Ya, THAT kinda thing. A "Chip" on a wood pillar kinda thing. Bragging Rights, too. I'd say 1 out of ever 20 salesmen achieves it once in a career.
Sandy did it twice. Well.....Sorta, listen up.

#1. Very nice older gentleman arrives one day in his little old Rambler American (AMC Compact). The poor car is all used up. 120,000 on the Odo, partially rotted floor pans, exterior rust, bad power steering pump, tranny hanging up...'ya get the general idea. He wants another "like" car. He is here to see and test drive a Dodge Dart 4-Dr. Base Model Sedan, with only Pwr. Steering, a CLOCK, and radio & automatic Tranny. We have a few of these. He does everything a customer does and demo drives it and and and.....
He wants to trade in the AMC Rambler American Sedan. The thing is totally worthless. Maybe fifty bucks? Well you can't tell a person his car is worthless. It's an insult. So, if I recall, there was about $800 in the base striped Dart Sedan. ($800 between INVOICE & WINDOW STICKER). So, I present it thusly, as a $600 allowence for his Rambler. In reality, it was a $600 discount off of window sticker. He is all good with that, and we write the order. He needs a week he says to get his affairs in order, giving me a $1,000 deposit. Car is marked SOLD and removed from inventory. We wait.
On delivery day he appears on time, and looks horribly embarrassed. Sheepishly he comes over to me, and says, "I have bad news for you" {Sandy is sure he is cancelling & wants his deposit back ~ another one down the toilet}
Nope, we are about to ring the bell :eek:
Gentleman tells me that he mentioned to his neighbor that he was trading in his Rambler. Neighbor is "So Sorry" as HE woulda bought it for his 17 year old daughter to learn to drive on ~ So, my customer sold the Rambler to the neighbor for the $600.00 I was allowing him for it, and MY customer has brought ME the $600.00 from the neighbor !
BINGO! Full Lister !! He also had a Cashier's Check for the cost of the car. That, plus the neighbor's $600.00 = WINDOW STICKER. As customery, I took the other 2 Salesmen out after work for dinner & brewskies.
One second I am feeling badly sure that he's here to cancel, and the next second I had my first Home Run.

Second Bell Ringer I will do later, it's the hysterical one :thepan: :thumbsup:

Hah cool!

Full Pop? It's like selling a fully loaded car with all of the options for window sticker price?

I'm a little sad as he was obviously a very honest, good hearted old guy.

But well done you!!!

Go Sandy :grins:

Nice work. Everyone wins. :)

I'll tell you the truth. I did in fact feel badly. He was a very honest, nice, religious elderly man, who felt badly about what he had percieved he did. He even said to me that he knew we would have sold the Rambler for more than $600.00 (Ha, No Way) ... but anyhow, he felt badly that he had deprivied US of making an additional profit FROM the sale of the Rambler. THAT was why he was so bashfull.....
But, ...... IF IF IF I had told him the truth, he woulda been HIGHLY insulted, that we were allowing him nothing at all for the car his late wife had picked out, and in which they shared many many memories of traveling to Illinois to visit their son and driving down to North Carolina to visit family and all the memories ones racks up in a car held onto for a decade plus 1 year. He would have never bought a thing had I told him he car was worthless.

You better believe whenever he came in for service, hw was KING! I saw to that. It wasn't so much the $160.00 commission I made as much as it was that elusive Full Pop ! (Selling a new car for window sticker ~ as in NO DISCOUNT).