Please! Thoughts and help on purchase (1 Viewer)

[TonyP]

You can be a successful salesman and an a****** or a average/unsuccessful salesman and a sweetheart. Choose one. About 85% of sales come from 10% of the salesmen in a given industry. Those 10% are generally the ones with fire in their eyes who have no morals. While you might feel your salesman is your BFF who you'll invite to your daughter's wedding, chances are he's either doing a favor, unsuccessful or an outlier. People don't go into sales to make friends. This isn't Mayberry.

Salesmen by nature are scoundrels. Not that that's a bad thing. I admire anyone that's good at their profession. I even admire salesmen, from a distance.

 

[Godfr33]

You can be a successful salesman and an a****** or a average/unsuccessful salesman and a sweetheart. Choose one. About 85% of sales come from 10% of the salesmen in a given industry. Those 10% are generally the ones with fire in their eyes who have no morals. While you might feel your salesman is your BFF who you'll invite to your daughter's wedding, chances are he's either doing a favor, unsuccessful or an outlier. People don't go into sales to make friends. This isn't Mayberry.

Salesmen by nature are scoundrels. Not that that's a bad thing. I admire anyone that's good at their profession. I even admire salesmen, from a distance.

fair statement.

Although in 2 paragraphs you mention no morals, unsuccessful, outlier, scoundrels by nature, friendless, as well as admiration be it near or far.

Quick math on your proposed percentages tells me that for every 7 sold vehicles, one of those was from your proposed Mayberry characters. So I'm willing to buy from Barney Fife. He was, and probably is the only character that people associate with that show. Although his character was only on the show for 5 of the 8 seasons or 62.5%!

He was a funny caring thoughtful character and I'd bet 100% of people would buy a car from him 85% of the time.

FYI... 5 out of 5 of the seasons Don Knotts played Fife, he won an Emmy for that character! 100%

I know who's getting my $. Just saying

 

[TonyP]

... Ok

 

[Godfr33]

... Ok

Plus here in San Diego there is a small family run dealership , who primarily deals in preowned late 90's-07 4runners/Lexi/LC's.

My wife, son, and I Talked to them about what we were interested in. After spending time educating and pointing out the differences and similarities, he told us we should get a 200. Both brothers on separate instances said the same thing to me! Additionally, they both said "of course we could sell you one of these but listening to your needs we wouldn't recommend going that route".

In the very near future anybody who asks me what's the best thing about my 200. I'll tell them about all of the positives of my journey acquiring it.

In the distant future anybody who asks my son about the 200. He'll tell them about all the awesome adventures he had with Mom and Dad in it.

So if my purchase costs $2000 more than what the other guy could've bought it for. Ask my son in the distant future what he can buy for $2000???? A replacement bearing on his autonomous A----->B transport thingy!

I'm here asking for advice from you the owners of these awesome machines. I'm introducing myself candidly, respondingto posts, and joined the forum as a gold member to show I'm not just trying to buy a LC and split!

 

[Markuson]

View attachment 1472360 You know it's really strange. I wrote on this forum and said what I said.

Karma is real. I bought a CA lottery ticket tonight and just scratched it off.

Matching the 16 just gave me $150

Therefore I going to give $100 as a gold membership to this site and $50 to my new car! When I find her!

Makes my last post a sign from whomever is above!!!

Pretty sure God doesn't run the lottery...

 

[Markuson]

can get it for under 44500. Might be able to negotiate a little more for shipping to my place.

So I just did a little poking around... From what I see, that deal is just about average. That tells me you might want to keep looking for something closer that you can go drive, inspect, assess. If the one you're looking at seemed unusually great? Maybe. But it doesn't. It seems right in the normal pricing ballpark for a 2013-2014 with that many miles.

 

[Godfr33]

So I just did a little poking around... From what I see, that deal is just about average. That tells me you might want to keep looking for something closer that you can go drive, inspect, assess. If the one you're looking at seemed unusually great? Maybe. But it doesn't. It seems right in the normal pricing ballpark for a 2013-2014 with that many miles.

Thanks. I thinking the same thing. Including shipping and the fact that I haven't test driven it is a huge issue. There would have to be Hail Mary in order for me to really take it into consideration. I'd bet most of those types of vehicles go to auction then wind up west of the birthplace.

Additionally, the dealers know these are their cash cows as the looming contraction in auto sales shows.

 

[Godfr33]

Pretty sure God doesn't run the lottery...

Most likely the other guy down below from us instead.

Think my forum name as well as the reference to whomever, tells you where I stand in my beliefs.

 

[Godfr33]

Think I should just post a wanted in the classifieds here and see how it goes?