#1275 - Profiling!

[Ryan Gemmill]

I've gotta throw my two cents in on this one.

A little over a year ago my friend was in the market for a new car. We were
both seniors in high school. She liked the looks of the Jetta at the time so
she dragged me to go look at one. Drove up in my 200 figuring it might send
off a lightbulb in one of the salesman's heads. No such luck. It took 30
minutes of loitering in the showroom before a salesman halfassly approached
us. "Ya'll wanna buy a car?" he said very sarcastically as he was on his way
to flirt with the receptionist. "Might want to buy 2 if we could get some
attention!" I said.Watched him scramble to drop what he was doing and stash
his Dorito's behind the reception desk. She later bought a Jetta VR6 from
another dealer, because of color availability. (And yes, they payed cash.)

Regards,
Ryan Gemmill
'91 200 (Boge, 1.8bar, K&N)

P.S. Let's not hide anything here... the dealership was Jim Ellis VW outside
of Atlanta. For the Atlanta listers, I'm sure you all have your own Jim
Ellis stories.


----- Original Message -----
From: Edward Birch <edwbirch at home.com>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 8:43 PM
Subject: Re:#1275 - profiling!


| > Subject: musings and condenser cleaner....
|
| > Went to VAG/Porsche dealer yesterday<snip>was dressed in an old
| > crappy shirt, old crappy shorts and old crappy sneakers.  As I read the
| > sticker on a Boxster a salesman asked if I had any Porsche questions.
| Yes,
| > can I have one please? (normally profiling angers me, but clearly this
| > saleman had the wrong guy).
|
| Go into a Mercedes Benz dealership dressed like that!    OR, drive up in a
| MB Turbo-Diesel. Salesmen there won't even speak to you.  BTDT.   Never
mind
| that some of us can pay cash for a $70,000 German car.
|
| Nothing worse than a snooty German car salesman!
|
| Ed Birch...93-100S
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