# Car Sales Job Help, Please

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-sales-job-help-please/685902>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 12, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-sales-job-help-please/685902 "2014-04-12T00:08:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-sales-job-help-please/685902/21 "2014-04-13T22:07:08Z")

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> [@Mr\_Quatro](#):
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> They charge for the demo’s too unless your top salesman

What?

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-sales-job-help-please/685902/22 "2014-04-14T14:07:17Z")

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> [@MeanOldLady](#):
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> What?

I don’t think he realizes that things have changed since 1958.

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**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-sales-job-help-please/685902/23 "2014-04-14T14:23:09Z")

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I sold cars for awhile in my mid-20s and was terrible at it. Got fired from one place after 9 months of low sales and bounced around to another couple of dealerships before giving up on it for good.

Bottom line, some people can sell but most can’t. It’s in your personality and can’t be taught or learned. You either have the gift for it or you don’t, I don’t.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-sales-job-help-please/685902/24 "2014-04-17T21:49:03Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> I had one guy who was always in my pocket, and it really pissed me off. Seemed like every time I sold a motorized RV, he was getting half my commission. He was a lousy salesman, and customers who knew him avoided him, so he made his living picking pockets.

Ahh… I see you’ve worked with Cal.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-sales-job-help-please/685902/25 "2014-04-17T23:11:52Z")

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> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> Ahh… I see you’ve worked with Cal.

😛 Yeah. It didn’t help that he was a big tub o’ guts, constantly sweating, looking like an unmade bed (not easy when you’re just wearing khakis and a workshirt), and an obvious blowhard who didn’t know when to let up on a customer. If I hadn’t been near the end of my employment there, we’d have eventually had a confrontation about it.

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