I'm in the market for a new car, and I've spoken to various car salespeople. Mostly as a normal person, thinking they'd 'get' me what I needed. Hasn't worked.
So, I changed approach with them, and spelled out exactly what my buying criteria were, down to the options I was looking for, colour choices and the like. I spelled out timing and so on. Still didn't help.
As an aside, I teach people (teach is an ugly word to me, as I don't actually teach them, I share best practices and as grown-ups they elect what to take onboard, and what to throw away from the interaction we have, and each individual is different.) how to sell. In a B2B sense - business to business. I don't dabble in retail sales, and don't claim to be an expert in that area in any sense.... but it galls me terribly when I have such amateur idiots pushing their junk on me and urging me act fast without ever asking me what it is I'm trying to do.
So, I'm protesting in my own way, and I've elected that they'll all starve a few days. I'm not buying anything. I know this will have no effect, and won't affect the behaviours I despise. But I'm feeling quite mean-spirited about it all actually, so there.
Beware the pissed-off buyer.
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