Salesmen and their tricks

[Dom Tuk]

After watching the horrendous salesmens trick on the last watchdog programme (Instamatic beds) could we get a few tricks exposed on this thread. One silly trick played by any salesman who comes to measure your house for carpets/vinyl/laminate is to draw on a piece of paper (usually a waste paper) the shape of the room. So what is essentially a square room with a fireplace is drawn. In the kitchen he will draw all the angles. It is all done for show. He does not deduct/make allowances for the shape of the room when ordering carpets/laminates. He just measures the length and breadth and adds 2 metres on top. The malarkey of drawing shapes is just to show that he is doing some serious work. looks better than just measuring and quoting.

[jake-the-peg]

My favorite salesman trick is to attempt to close a deal by offering terms that are "only available today".

I will *always* walk away from an offer like that it's a sure sign that the salesman has no confidence that what he's selling stacks up to the competition

[mccfluff]

when a sales person say's ' i'm not allowed to do this but......' and then goes onto offer a discount or whatever, its a load of crap

[Dom Tuk]

And the financial advisor always looks at the computer and says...and this is what they always say....'I have just saved you.......' what a load of crap he did not save you anything.....

[mccfluff]

i just rang ntl about broadband, me: what the cheapest i can have i already have tv and phone
her :17.99
me: but your advertising �14.99
Well there is that option but its only 512 the 17.99 is 1mb
me: ok i'll think about it.
I then rang again but spoke to the sales team rather than customer service and got 1mb broadband for 9.49 unlimited use and permenant discount as i have the other services, whats all that about! arggghhhhh sorry a bit of the thread their just wanted to rant (am very pleased about the price i got it for tho)