It's that time of the month

January and February are usually slow sales months.  Our auto show is in mid-January and I used to think that people would go car shopping during and after a major auto show.  Doesn't happen.  Quite often, someone will come in and ask, "When can I order that [way out concept car]?"

For trades, that usually means 2 or three a week.  Since I do this part time, and there is another employee who is in full time, I might get one trip a week.  Since this has been a mild winter, it hasn't been too bad being at home.

Life keeps repeating itself

A couple days ago, I posted about going in to a dealer and the person you deal with takes out his having a bad day on you.  Happened again yesterday.  I went into this place I had been many times before, and had had some bad experiences with a few times.  While completing paperwork, the manager doing the trade took some of the forms he was supposed to keep, (like the statement of origination - kind of like the title) throws them literately back at me and says, "I don't want this f@#$%^g s#$t."

So, I'm thinking, "I just blogged about jacka**es like this."  I took all the papers back, and told my guy who writes up the trades, "He might need this in the near future, and by the way, we don't need this stuff from him." Long story short, now those forms have to be mailed back to him, they can't sell the car without them.  But all would have been a lot easier for all concerned if he had just taken a little time, and a deep breath.  He may advertise as being "The largest [insert brand here] dealer in [insert city here], but he's just one of many contacts we run across, now he's a blog entry.