The dealership that I worked in in the late eighties was right in a small town. One year a guy rented a small garage right next to the store. He started a mower sales and service business. His main line was Yardman. The are a off Yellow and blue green color. This guy was an idiot. He sold mowers for $50-100 over cost. I went an talked to him one time and he said he only used to make $200 a week at his old job so if he made $100 per mower he only had to sell two each week to make as much money. What??? I asked him if he had figured his overhead. He asked me what that was. I told him it was his cost of running his business: his rent, electric, insurance, water and sewage. He said that was not much as he was paying $300 each month rent and it must have the utilities in it as he never had been sent any bills. Plus he never needed insurance. ???
The real funny thing was that this town had a population of 300 people so how was he going to sell 100 lawn mowers each year??? Well you guys can guess how long he stayed in "business". The town finally figured out he was using utilities. They back billed him for what he had used. Nice $3000 bill. LOL He closed right down.
Now the big problem he caused for us. For the next 4-5 years his old customers came in to us trying to get parts and service. Yardman mowers are a low end mower to start with so you can imagine the customer he sold too. They would come in and swear that we had sold them the mower because we sold yellow and green ones too. The parts man just about had several heart attacks dealing with these idiots.
As for foreigners here. I can deal with most of them other than the Pakistani and East Indian ones. They are the most arrogant people in the world. They are used to treating women like crap so you should see how they treat clerks. I saw a big old gal at the grocery store drag one of these little arrogant a holes out the door after he tried that on her. LMAO I wished I had a camera. When she came back in I asked her is she was worried about being sued?? She said heck no and grinned at me. "I am more protected than him". You see she was a large African American single mother. Yep she was right. LOL
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