Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Cars

As usual, I have been negligent about updating. I've been very busy lately, due to a new job that requires me to work a lot of hours. I'm selling cars at Spartanburg Dodge. The car business is a funny thing. Everybody needs one (or more) cars and everybody wants a nice car. But what everybody wants and what everybody's credit will allow are often not the same thing. This is where the challenge comes in. As a salesman, I have to help the customer fall in love with the cheapest car that they like. If I try to sell them a car that is too far above their budget, they either fight the price down (reducing my profit) or don't buy the car (even further reducing myprofit). But if I can find a car they like and can afford, we're both happy. They have a car they like and I can bring home bacon.