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As some of you may know, I've been shopping Impalas for a few weeks. It's getting frustrating.
I recall visiting Chevy dealers from time to time in the 1990s. The salesmen, to a man, were the most pathetic, incompetent, lackluster bunch I ran into. And I ran into a lot of salesmen. I traded annually then. I seem to now, too, but that's another story.
BTW, during that decade by wife and I bought six Dodge or Chrysler products.
So I've been in touch with two saleshomies at one Chevy dealership in OH. One was very hot dog and seemed to have his fingers in many pies. The other not so much, but he was responding to an AutoTrader inquiry.
I've phoned and emailed them both and have heard nothing all week.
Is business that good?
Next step: Sales manager or dealership manager.
Another more local Chevy dealership's used car manager contacted me after I got an estimate on a new 2012 from them. I told him what I was looking for. I sent him an email. Left VM.
I've heard nothing.
I don't know about other shoppers, but I have a wacky idea that when someone operates a business, they want to sell stuff and have customers and things like that.
This is reminding me so much of the 1990s Chebby dealerships, with the pitiful "sales"men who seemed like a privileged class willing to put forth little effort.
I'm going to drop a couple of emails to a couple of other saleshomies. I'm going to contact one used car manager at a third dealership, the one whose salesman thought Hondas and Toyotas all still used timing belts and in fact, it seemed that he thought the 2012 Chebby Impala we were driving was an ohv jobbie. Oh well.
New GM? Or more New Old GM?
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Keeping the KIA is looking better and better to me. If this is typical of a GM dealership, I'm not willing to have yet more experiences as I did at the local Buick/GMC with my GP GXP and the AM radio fix that took five trips and cost the warranty system $2,000 when it could've been solved for perhaps $100 if a competent tech had been available.
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I recall visiting Chevy dealers from time to time in the 1990s. The salesmen, to a man, were the most pathetic, incompetent, lackluster bunch I ran into. And I ran into a lot of salesmen. I traded annually then. I seem to now, too, but that's another story.
BTW, during that decade by wife and I bought six Dodge or Chrysler products.
So I've been in touch with two saleshomies at one Chevy dealership in OH. One was very hot dog and seemed to have his fingers in many pies. The other not so much, but he was responding to an AutoTrader inquiry.
I've phoned and emailed them both and have heard nothing all week.
Is business that good?
Next step: Sales manager or dealership manager.
Another more local Chevy dealership's used car manager contacted me after I got an estimate on a new 2012 from them. I told him what I was looking for. I sent him an email. Left VM.
I've heard nothing.
I don't know about other shoppers, but I have a wacky idea that when someone operates a business, they want to sell stuff and have customers and things like that.
This is reminding me so much of the 1990s Chebby dealerships, with the pitiful "sales"men who seemed like a privileged class willing to put forth little effort.
I'm going to drop a couple of emails to a couple of other saleshomies. I'm going to contact one used car manager at a third dealership, the one whose salesman thought Hondas and Toyotas all still used timing belts and in fact, it seemed that he thought the 2012 Chebby Impala we were driving was an ohv jobbie. Oh well.
New GM? Or more New Old GM?
Keeping the KIA is looking better and better to me. If this is typical of a GM dealership, I'm not willing to have yet more experiences as I did at the local Buick/GMC with my GP GXP and the AM radio fix that took five trips and cost the warranty system $2,000 when it could've been solved for perhaps $100 if a competent tech had been available.
