Golf's all I could afford!!

[Lucas_R]

My Dad used to sell cars in the '50s. Hated the job but liked talking to people. He tells me he sold quite a few cars (at a time) to blokes that the other salesmen ignored because they were dressed in boiler suits or work clothes & a bit unkempt. One was the owner of Miller's Coal who'd spent the morning helping fix a coal delivery truck. He bought 2 Austin utes off Dad.

A bit off the original thread but following on from Brad. My son does the same thing in his selling job. He's happy to talk to any folk dressed in anything. He sold a 3 grand tele to a bloke in scruffy jeans and moth eaten t-shirt when a few others ignored the guy. You just never know.

As pointed out above - don't judge someone based on what they are wearing etc. Even though it can be very hard sometimes. My brother sold an Audi R8 V10 (so close to $400k) to a guy in his Lee jeans from 1980, a mustard yellow shirt of the same vintage, coke bottle glasses, and leather "Jesus" sandals........not the kind of guy you'd expect to have $400k to blow on a car.

Just because they prance around in a fancy business suit doesn't mean they have wads of cash to burn.

So, just to re-iterate, the guy below owns the following car:

[brad]

Not sure why my comments were deleted, but whatever....

They don't want VWWC denegrating to the level of Performance Forum

[Ideo]

Whenever I'm checking out a car or art (I have a few investment pieces) I always go looking a bit scruffy.

It's a good way of judging who is going to deal or not deal.

As a result I tend to get the hungriest and most professional salespeople. Plus, it's just hilarious watching the double take when some dude in his mid 20s with cargo shorts and an old t shirt is buying a 25k painting.

[shramma]

thanks for letting us know how much you spend on your investments.

[Finance_Analyst]

as George Constanza says, it only goes up in value if the guy dies

[SilvrFoxX]

as George Constanza says, it only goes up in value if the guy dies

Which I thought this thread would have done ages ago

[Tobes_WIR35]

They don't want VWWC denegrating to the level of Performance Forum

Mine were fine apparently, but with all the surrounding ones gone, out of context it didn't make sense, which is fair enough.

[Ideo]

thanks for letting us know how much you spend on your investments.

I rent though. Explain that one

[PassatB6]

I rent though. Explain that one

You don't have enough money to buy a house?

[Diesel_vert]

You don't have enough money to buy a house?

There are many reasons why people rent.