Re: Acceptable dealer markup??

Posted by paul on April 25, 2018 at 10:56:48 from (76.77.197.114):

In Reply to: Re: Acceptable dealer markup?? posted by Frantz on April 25, 2018 at 05:34:34:

I appreciate a lot of what you are saying, and hearing your (the salesman) point of view.

But it still somehow comes across as, I know how much you should spend more than you the customer should, and it's easy to screw you on
the price when I have you in the office "that is the easy part......"

As I see it, the fella came in with a sealed bid spec, and the dealer's could price it how they wanted, period. It doesn't get much easier than that
for the salesman, no wasted time at all. A salesmans job is to put together sales offers, so yes they take time but that -is- the job description.

It must be embarrassing for Dealer A to be that far off, man did he screw up on his job. A salesman should know his job, and must have terribly
misread the customer.

It is that easy.

I was looking for a machine shed 6-7 years ago. Went to the regional farm show event where a doxpzen or more builders display.

I narrowed it down two 2 places I liked, the others had a girlfriend hand out fliers that didn't really know what a truss was, or no one around, or
just didn't connect with me. Of those two I felt comfortable with, I'm still waiting for the one salesman to get back to me. The other one had the
shed up 4 months later I was putting machinery in it. I actually thought the salesman I worked with was a jerk, but I wanted the shed and he
was the only one that even talked to me a second time. I'm real happy with the shed, the salesman had quit by the following year.

It's pretty simple?

Again, I really appreciate your comments here, and don't mean to be a sourpuss. I'm sure both sides of the desk have lots of stories to tell, and
beefs to bring up on dealings with wanna be salesmen/customers, and a discussion like this brings the worst of both to mind pretty quickly. It is
much better when the relationship works well.

But $15,000 off on a single tractor, that is a little hard to defend with a straight face on a sealed bid type transaction?

Paul

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