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[sad_rocc at yahoo.com (Dan Smith)]

Yep, Spewey, that's where I was going with it. I love roccs, you love roccs, but I don't expect others affliated with VWs to love roccs. While I too would be more likely to hand my money over to someone oogling over my rocc, that doesn't mean that salesperson knows more about the car I will be buying at said dealership, which certainly wouldn't be a rocc. Give me a guy who knows every nut and bolt of today's cars over someone who can recite the years, makes and models of all the previous cars any day. 
 
And by the way, VW IS trying to just sell you another car. A quality, well-priced car that they feel is better than others in the market, but it's still a car which equals a paycheck to them. I used to sell bikes ranging in price from $200 to $4000. After working for awhile, I came to prefer and think that the brands we were selling were superior to others. I could name every component, tell you where that drivetrain fits on the best to worst scale, weights of the bikes, everything. But I couldn't care less about the models made in the '80s and I don't know jack about them.
 
To each their own,
Dan 

Spewey <spewey@comcast.net> wrote:
danws69@earthlink.net wrote:

> I take exception to that philosophy......
> 
> 
> A Car is not on the same field as a sandwich.
> 
> AND, if I'm going to the VW dealership, and NO ONE knows my car....I 
> know they're not real enthusiasts, thus, the VW they're trying to 
> sell me is just another car. Whereas, the sales rep that comes flying
> out the door going "OMG!!!! AN ALL ORIGINAL RABBIT SPORTRUCK!!! 
> w00t!!!" will probably elicit more buying-urge from me than the 
> indifferent clod who doesn't even KNOW what a Scirocco is.
> 
> As a Scirocco owner, I'm almost embarressed you'd say something like 
> that doesn't matter.
> 
> 
> shame......shame..........
> 

D00d, car salespeople are not "carguys/gals" because the job doesn't 
require it nor does it reward it. I take exception to your exception. 
I have had friends who have sold vws after getting tired of selling 
pianos (also expensive) and I have test-driven cars with vw salesfolks 
who were divinity students the week before. If you want to learn a 
little bit more about how the industry operates, I suggest you read this:

http://www.edmunds.com/advice/buying/articles/42962/article.html

It's long but very insightful. Quote:

"[edmunds.com] hired Chandler Phillips, a veteran journalist, to go
undercover by working at two new car dealerships in the Los Angeles
area. First, he would work at a high-volume, high-pressure dealership
selling Japanese cars. Then, he'd change over to a smaller car lot that
sold domestic cars at "no haggle" prices.

Read, learn and enjoy."

--
scirocco owner, whaddaya gonna do about it?

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