The California Kid

Me and my friend were walking around the Chevy dealer yesterday looking at all the new Corvettes. I was hanging around the 5 or 6 Z06's they had just looking around.

We walk all the way to the back of the lot, where the trucks were, and a salesman followed us all the way out and approached us. "Hey guys, anything I can help you find today?"

"No, we're just looking" We said
"Anything in particular you're looking for?" He responded in an eager tone
"No, we were just checking out the Corvettes."
As we tried to keep walking, and look un-interested he said.
"Are you interested in buying a Corvette?"

First of all, what kind of salesman comes up to two 20 year old kids and tries to sell them a Corvette? The answer is a NEW salesman.

I said, "Possibly. I've allready got one you see, and I don't know if I want to trade mine in, or just buy another one."

I could tell that this guy didn't have ANY idea what he was talking about, so I decided to mess with him.

"I'd love to put you in a Corvette. Why don't you come with me and check out this black one I saw you looking at earlier." He quipped

As we make out way to the front of the building, he leads us to the black 2007 Z06 parked in front of the store. I tried my best to not bust out in laughter.

I stood there looking over this Z06, pretending to be interested. I asked him "How much do these run?"

He immediatley reponded with, "Well why don't you come inside and we can run some numbers real quick."

At this point, it was becoming VERY difficult not to explode with laughter. So I said, "Whoa there I'm don't know about that yet, I might be interested in a regular C6, but I'm not sure."

Being the un-trained, un-educated, newbie that he was, he answered with "Oh, you want to buy a Z6? So are you looking for like a 2003?"

This was it. I couldn't hold back my laughter any longer. I released a sound from my mouth, much like a tire that was suddenly punctured.
While I tried to comprehend in my mind what the hell a Z6 was, I retorted quickly with, "No, I want a 2005 or 2006."

This idiot really didn't know his *** from first base, and is was painfully obvious.

"Well why don't you guys follow me, and I'll show you some of the cars in the showroom, and I'll run some numbers for you"

I don't know why, but we followed him into the showroom, and much to my suprise, there was a BEAUTIFUL Arctic White Z06 that was roped off in the corner. I walked over to it and looked inside only to be suprised again. The inside of the center console lid was autographed. As I stood there, hunched over with my sweaty palms lurking centimeters away from the window, shielding my eyes from the glare of the sun, I asked the amatuer sales man, "Who is this signed by?"

I was too busy oogling over the beautiful car to pay attention to his answer, but I'm pretty sure that whatever he mumbled was inaudible, and it was probably also WRONG.

I thought for a second, who could this be signed by? I looked at the scrambled mess of letters unable to decypher a name. Then I looked underneath the signature, and saw "#3". I then looked back up at the first letters of the name and recognized "R" and "F". RON FELLOWS! IT WAS RON FELLOWS! I was mentally running up the walls like Wile E. Coyote after the Road Runner.

I spurted out "WOW! I would love to have a Corvette signed by a Corvette racer. Now granted its not a 'Ron Fellows Edition' Z06 because there are no red stripes on the fender, and also because there are only 300 available, but its still pretty neat."

You could tell that the saleman knew he was over his head at this point, and his tone changed for the rest of our conversations. No longer was he an eager, money hungry salesman. He had morphed into a young, stupid man who realized that he had no hopes of ever selling me a car, and he probably realized that he made himself look like a complete *** in front of me.

He took us over to his desk, which consisted of a computer screen and a pen, and he tried to get our information. We reluctantly gave him some, and then he actually went to talk to his manager about pricing a Z06 for me. He came back a few minutes later with a peice of paper with a number scribbled on it. "$74,995".

I stood up, walked around to the back of my chair and gently pushed it back under his desk and quietly said "Thanks. I'll let you know what my girlfriend says". And I walked out.

Big-Red

I think this IS a Ron Fellows Vette that you saw. The red stripe is Dealer
applied and from what I have heard the 300 or so (399)? are allotted
to dealers on a first come basis. As far as the price it appears to be a
stock Z06. The Ron Fellows Z06 has been going for 90 large.

DETROIT — The special-edition 2007 Ron Fellows ALMS GT1 Champion Corvette Z06 will hit U.S. showrooms in June with a sticker price of $77,500, including an $825 destination charge. A top-of-the-line model with OnStar and a navigation system will be priced at $79,945.

Luv2Run

and the point of your actions was.......

You must really enjoy having a new restaurant server "in training" help you!

It's interesting that this kind of behavior makes you feel so good about yourself.

Oh, I missed the part that you are still maturing (20 years old)



Don

peter pan

cjlaw73

What dealer was that at?

sheldon

Actually you ran into a very seasoned salesperson. In fact he was messing with YOU. Obvisously you are too young to realize you were the butt of the joke. Everything he did and said was exactly what car sales people do to people who obvisouly wasting their time. First kill them with kindness (whatever, whatever, sure your right 05 Z06, sure), while still not paying attention lead the customer the most expensive car, get them to sit down and "talk numbers"- sure you can afford it, then throw a huge price or large monthly payment in front of them and watch em run, then laugh with other sales people about the guy that just ran away. It's funny you did exactly that. To address the fact that he was stupid, I doubt it. He probably knows as much as you or more, but he didn't you feel stupid, just good sales. Please don't waste car sales peoples time, they're probably only making commission and don't have time for strokers. Just tell truth you aren't buying today.

sheldon

Something tells me this post is going to go the way you expected.

Bethlehem Bob

The point of this post was? And you wonder why salespeople treat you like bumbling idiots. Get a life.

SLO C5

Whenever my parents go to look at cars I love going with them. I'll just sit in the backseat, while my parents ask questions to the salesman riding shotgun. Everytime he gives a response, I then jump in with a "No, actually it's ......" It's hilarious.

Floridasky

" spurted out "WOW! I would love to have a Corvette signed by a Corvette racer. Now granted its not a 'Ron Fellows Edition' Z06 because there are no red stripes on the fender, and also because there are only 300 available, but its still pretty neat."

They only make the white Z06 as a Ron Fellows edition. Just did not put the stripes on at the dealership.

Your story is totally worthless, think twice about sharing next time!

crmvette

R Devil

BAND1T

Uh-oh.... looks like a severe case of

Daytona Bob

Try not to hurt him to bad.

We all were 20 at one time and no real harm was done.

I love the chevy by my house in florida, I've been there 6 times and no salesman approaches. Even when I drool on the Z06's or other cars like SUV's.

Also the Service people park the car inside there new service bay and layout all kinds of stuff to keep it my car clean.

Lets avoid running him over and talk about how great our chevy service is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vettegator

yep....you showed him. I wonder if he is posting on a car salesman's forum about somebody "messing" with him.
How dare a car salesman want to sell you a car.

M6 Vetter

Nothing wrong with messing with salesmen. Some are complete idiots.

Tony2

Heh looks like we have a serious case of "Pot Meet Kettle" here


Tony2

sheldon

Idiots or not, they have a right to make a living. How would you like me to come to where you work, screw with you for about a half an hour, maybe an hour, and by the way you won't get paid while I'm with you. I sell cars and trust me on a daily basis I see more idiots walking through the doors then are on the inside.

oldschoolvette

M6 Vetter

Of course they have that right. I'm not busting all salesmen (many of my friends are salesmen),
but you can't tell me you have not once met a salesman that didn't know shi... about what he was talking about.
Nothing wrong with salesmen in general, but some people don't belong there.