It was an excellent product if I pushed it. I didn’t sell shitty stuff unless the customer demanded that specific product, and I’d always ask if they wanted to hear about alternatives.
I did not sell at a good price. I never actually lied, and was in fact very honest. But I used the trust created by that honesty to make sales that were not necessarily great deals for the customer.
Heh, I used to sell computers. If you spent 5 minutes with them explaining Mhz, MB, GB, in terms they could understand and how to go to each tag and understand where they stood in the lineup, I wasn’t on commission, I told them they could go anywhere and take those numbers and compare prices and make an informed decision apples to apples, they almost all immediately bought.
We did NOT generally have the best price, but would price match. They wouldn’t even look elsewhere. You know what you’re talking about, we’re sticking with YOU!
That one does 120 million things a second, this one is the newer chips, it bascially does two things at a time, so they’re both 120 but this one gets 240 million things done. This is the hard drive, it’s your file cabinet, this is the ram it’s your desktop. The file cabinets are huge, but you can only get a couple things out at a time if you don’t have enough desktop space. All these systems have 3 basic options, low, medium, high. Buy medium. It’ll last another year or two longer than low and the price isn’t that much more. If money is no concern, buy high, it’ll last the longest.
They all just made a quick decision and got the hell out.
Not a salesman personally but I was raised by one. I think he tried to get as good a deal for customers as he reasonably could, but the thing that’s always stuck with me is when he told me: “People don’t buy from me because I have the best deals. People buy from me to buy from me.”
Some salesmen may offer good or bad deals, but ultimately what they’re selling is themselves, their personality, their companionship to some degree. My dad could talk to anyone and build a relationship within an hour. It’s who he was, and he leveraged it to make a lot of money because his customers liked talking to him.
Buying through a commissioned salesman will likely always be at least a few percentage points more expensive than using an online portal, but there are a lot of people who will feel like it’s worth it if the salesman is doing their job right.
So… were you generally offering it at a good price? Or did your career rely on the fact that they didn’t check
It was an excellent product if I pushed it. I didn’t sell shitty stuff unless the customer demanded that specific product, and I’d always ask if they wanted to hear about alternatives.
I did not sell at a good price. I never actually lied, and was in fact very honest. But I used the trust created by that honesty to make sales that were not necessarily great deals for the customer.
Heh, I used to sell computers. If you spent 5 minutes with them explaining Mhz, MB, GB, in terms they could understand and how to go to each tag and understand where they stood in the lineup, I wasn’t on commission, I told them they could go anywhere and take those numbers and compare prices and make an informed decision apples to apples, they almost all immediately bought.
We did NOT generally have the best price, but would price match. They wouldn’t even look elsewhere. You know what you’re talking about, we’re sticking with YOU!
That one does 120 million things a second, this one is the newer chips, it bascially does two things at a time, so they’re both 120 but this one gets 240 million things done. This is the hard drive, it’s your file cabinet, this is the ram it’s your desktop. The file cabinets are huge, but you can only get a couple things out at a time if you don’t have enough desktop space. All these systems have 3 basic options, low, medium, high. Buy medium. It’ll last another year or two longer than low and the price isn’t that much more. If money is no concern, buy high, it’ll last the longest.
They all just made a quick decision and got the hell out.
Not a salesman personally but I was raised by one. I think he tried to get as good a deal for customers as he reasonably could, but the thing that’s always stuck with me is when he told me: “People don’t buy from me because I have the best deals. People buy from me to buy from me.”
Some salesmen may offer good or bad deals, but ultimately what they’re selling is themselves, their personality, their companionship to some degree. My dad could talk to anyone and build a relationship within an hour. It’s who he was, and he leveraged it to make a lot of money because his customers liked talking to him.
Buying through a commissioned salesman will likely always be at least a few percentage points more expensive than using an online portal, but there are a lot of people who will feel like it’s worth it if the salesman is doing their job right.