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Recession buster

  • 13-06-2015 2:10pm
    #1
    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly
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    Joe Duffy BMW has good coffee and excellent cake. This morning I had a nut & toffee flapjack with my americano whilst reading the newspaper provided. The flapjack is from a local bakery according to the receptionist.

    Best of all it's free-I didn't buy anything.


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  • #2
    coylemj
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    Did you kick a few tyres on the way out?


  • #3
    paulmclaughlin
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    coylemj wrote: »
    Did you kick a few tyres on the way out?

    No tire-kickers or time-wasters! First to see will buy


  • #4
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭166man


    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »
    Joe Duffy BMW has good coffee and excellent cake. This morning I had a nut & toffee flapjack with my americano whilst reading the newspaper provided. The flapjack is from a local bakery according to the receptionist.

    Best of all it's free-I didn't buy anything.

    No doubt you'll be back in a few weeks wondering why they gave you a low price on a trade in or they have higher service costs though...;)

    If you were in to purely pass the time then it's just poor form obviously...


  • #5
    Truckermal
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    That's why genuine buyers get ignored with all these timewasters I recently purchased a new car and it was almost impossible to get a sales man intrested although in fairness to Audi Cork I walked in with working clothes and was given a great welcome even though I sat into a A8 walked out with a new car though..


  • #6
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,620 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    I was in that dealership near the M50 on a Sunday afternoon a few years ago, genuinely serious about buying a secondhand model they had on the lot. Unfortunately one guy and his large family monopolised the salesman to the exclusion of everyone else. A proper comedian he was, the kind of person you dread being near on a long flight, couldn't shut the fcuk up because he loved the sound of his own voice. Sadly the sales guy was taken in by his 'charm', couldn't detect the lack of buying signals and as a result he probably lost several genuine prospects who were hovering in the background waiting to get his ear, including me. I just gave up and left.


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  • #7
    bazz26
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    This thread reminds me of an amusing story at the time from someone I know who used to be in the sales side of the motor trade. He was saying that working on Saturdays was the worst and very rarely bared any fruit except maybe around November/December when people were ordering new cars for January. The showroom was guaranteed to be full of tyre kickers, test pilots or lonely souls with plenty of time to kill while the wife was getting her hair done across the road or out shopping. He would definitely put more effort into making a sale during the week or have no problem staying on beyond normal business hours to meet a customer after their work than be dealing with folk who turn up on a Saturday.


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