Another One of Those Insulting Emails From a Car Salesman. This Time I'm a "Bottom Fedder!"
Stumbled across your site while searching for something totally unrelated. I have been a sales person, new and used car sales manager, general sales manager and GM of a couple of different dealerships. You are totally blowing out of proportion what goes on to make money ... period.
You are exploiting peoples irrational fears about buying a vehicles to profit and making a lot of good people look bad doing it. Is there the odd sales person that uses unsavory tactics? Yes. However they are a dying breed and most now days are young go getters looking to service their prospects in such a way as to convert them the loyal long term clients.
I hope you fail in this business venture. Only because you are worst than the people you most ironically point the finger at. I am 35 years old and have been extremely successful without any of the BS you speak of. I have a feeling you are an old car guy that couldn't make it using the very tactics you warn people of (because buyers aren't stupid enough to be manipulated the way you suggest). You were likely a bottom feeder then, and I you continue down that path.
David B.
Hi David,
Tell the literally hundreds of people who email me with stories about all the shady tactics they encounter when they go into a car dealership that they're "blowing out of proportion what goes on to make money" - as you say - in a car dealership.
What planet are you living and working on anyway?
Are all car dealers and car sales people crooked jerks? Of course not, and if you actually took some time to read through my website you would see that I write often about that fact. You have apparently been working in a very sheltered environment during your time in the car business. I can assure you that all the crazy stuff and shady tactics that car dealers pull on customers is very much alive and well in many of today's car dealerships.
And if it makes you feel better to be rude and say stupid, ignorant things about me - when it's very obvious that you really have no clue - then that's fine. I've been called worse by better people than you, but it doesn't change anything. You obviously can't make an intelligent argument without resorting to personal insults - in this case to a person you don't even know.
Read some of the Questions & Answers section and the Dealer Horror Stories section on my website to bring yourself up to speed on some of the outrageous stuff that goes on. These emails I have published on my website are just the tip of the iceberg. I have literally 500 to 600 emails that I have yet to publish. This stuff is real, not made up! There isn't a day that goes by when I don't get several of them from people looking for help.
If you take care of your customers and are honest with them then I tip my hat to you, but please . . . don't pretend like the car business is this perfect little world where the people working in it are made out to be bad guys by a "bottom feeder" as you call me, because that's an insult to all the good people who want to buy a vehicle for a fair price, and get shafted from all sides in a car dealership - which happens everyday . . . at least here on planet Earth!
Open your eyes and grow up David, and stop being such a rude jerk! By the way David, I appreciate you wishing me "failure!" You sound like such a nice guy!
Tony Iorio - the "old car guy!"
http://www.InsiderCarSecrets.comhttp://www.Car-Loan-Quotes.comhttp://www.Used-Car-Warranty.com
You're a Parasite, a Slime-Ball and a Scumbag! Burn In Hell! OUCH!
Good day sir,
Your web site is littered with with a excessive over-abundance of ads. Your headlines about car salespeople (A Car Salesman Shows His True Colors! for example) are quite obviously sensationalistic dribble. And your posts clearly shows that your attitude is one of someone who has floundered in an industry that can be productive for the workers as well as the clients given a positive approach on either party's behalf.
People like you are the reason members of the industry (or any sales based profession) have a bad name. I wonder if you'd be comfortable sharing with your readers how much money your web site makes on advertising and referral income? Probably not. And I wonder how many hits you would get if your site told the truth rather than the tabloid-esque stories you have nestled in between your ample ads? Probably far less.
You're a parasite. Preying on the idiots who surf the web thinking they can learn previously unknown 'secrets' by reading the garbage you post. And I'm sure that deep down, in the darkest little corners of your negative mind, you know what a slime-ball you are.
Burn in hell, scumbag.
Sincerely,
Janice D.
My Response to Janice:Hi Janice,
It never ceases to amaze me how the anonymity of email emboldens people like you to make stupid, rude, insulting and downright vicious statements to absolute strangers, knowing full well that you would never have the courage to say those same things to my face in person.
You don't know me or anything about me, which is evident by the fact that you obviously have not taken any time to read through my website, yet in your short three paragraph diatribe you call me a parasite, a slime-ball, a scumbag and you tell me to burn in hell! OUCH! Having a bad day or what?
Who's the one with the dark little corners in their negative mind?
I have to tell you though Janice, being ugly and evil towards me is one thing, but calling my website visitors "idiots" just because they're searching for information to give themselves an edge before they have to go up against a predator like you is . . . well, let's just say it shows your true colors plain and simple.
You've exposed yourself for what you really are. You have completely validated the very reason for the existence of my website! Thank you very much!
Everything on my website is the absolute truth. There's no fluff . . . no bull . . . it just tells the truth about how the industry works. It gives my visitors an edge to protect themselves against all kinds of crazy crap that goes on in car dealerships. To be fair - and again - if you would have taken some time to read my website instead of going so far off the deep end you would see that I say all through my website that most people in the car business are honest, decent people. I advise my visitors that when they find such a person to stick with them and to refer everyone they know to them.
There are however, some people in the business who could care less about their customers and they treat them accordingly. To make things even worse, the system itself is so screwed up that it creates countless situations where the sales person is constantly put in a compromising position. And don't even get me started talking about all the different ways a customer can, and does get screwed over in the F & I Dept.
You think that as you say "people like me" are the reason the car business has a bad name, but the car business has been screwing over customers for more years than I've been around. It's car dealers insisting on cutting each other's throats, and their willing minions such as yourself who blindly follow orders on every deal that leads to all the chaos and the bad reputations . . . Not Little Old Me!
And as far as the advertising on my website goes, I know that you think that my web site visitors are all "idiots," but trust me, they can see just as well as you can; probably a whole lot more clearly in fact.
There's no doubt that what little bit of my web site you actually read clearly hit a raw nerve in you. You've heard the expression "The Truth Really Hurts" haven't you? I can't even begin to imagine what an incredibly negative and horrible experience it must be for a customer to be waited on by you. I pity them, and I pity you for carrying around such wicked hatred in your heart.
You should be ashamed of yourself for saying the nasty things you said in your email. There is absolutely no way that you can possibly be feeling very good about yourself after unleashing your own version of as you say "sensationalistic dribble!"
Just so you know, I will be posting your email and my response on my blog and on my website for the whole world to see. You have exposed yourself Janice!
Janice, I feel sorry for you, but "With God All Things Are Possible," so I know there's hope for you!
Tony Iorio
tony@insidercarsecrets.comhttp://www.insidercarsecrets.com
Once a Lemon Always a Lemon! Right? Well . . . Not Exactly!
An Ohio couple discovered after purchasing their 1999 Kia that it was already labeled as a "lemon!"
A New Hampshire couple won a lemon-law case against VW, then later they found their "lemon" on the Internet for sale!
Only 19 US states require retitling these vehicles as "lemons" with a lemon-warning on the title. With state laws controlling "lemons" being so inconsistent, it opens the door for allowing them to cross state lines and being resold in states that have no "lemon" regulations. When these cars are retitled in these non-regulated states the title can be legally "washed" and there will be no indication that the vehicle was ever a lemon!
The definition of a "lemon" varies from state to state exacerbating the problem, and the original defects prompting the "lemon" status can actually remain unrepaired.
Once a vehicle is determined to be "lemon," the manufacturer is required to buy it back from the consumer. From there the vehicle is usually sold at auction to car dealers, then from there it's anybody's guess where the vehicle ends up.
Experian Automotive traced 1,000 Florida vehicles branded as "lemons,"and 555 of them were taken out of state. Experian reports that 80% of those "lemons" taken out of state are no longer branded as "lemons."
Certainly uniform national laws are needed to prevent these "lemons" from becoming unlabeled, but who knows what kind of political forces will come to bare either expediting or preventing some sort of solution. You have to remember the U.S. Congress would have to make this happen. Good luck with that!
For additional insight into this problem visit Car Lemons & Car Buy-Back Questions. Tony Ioriohttp://www.InsiderCarSecrets.comhttp://www.Car-Loan-Quotes.comhttp://www.Used-Car-Warranty.comhttp://www.GreatCreditCardDeals.com
