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Re: My Father's New Car - What To Choose? - 02-29-2008, 10:15 PM

A C200 Avantgarde would be a good bet for him.
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Re: My Father's New Car - What To Choose? - 03-08-2008, 11:46 AM

I went to the MB dealer with my father today to look at the new C-class Wagon. There were 4 sales people but they did not show any intrest to help my father. He left the dealer disappointed.
If they arent serviceminded they can forget about selling cars. Idiots!!


Only good thing coming from this visit was to see this beast, C63 AMG.

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Re: My Father's New Car - What To Choose? - 03-08-2008, 12:18 PM

That's how sales people at BMW, Audi and Mercedes in particular tend to act in Sweden. No test drive of that C63 demo car??
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Re: My Father's New Car - What To Choose? - 03-08-2008, 12:43 PM

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That's how sales people at BMW, Audi and Mercedes in particular tend to act in Sweden. No test drive of that C63 demo car??
Audi is the best to get testdrives IMO, at least where I live. And regarding C63, we didnt ask. My father didnt even look at the car, he just walked past it.
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Re: My Father's New Car - What To Choose? - 03-08-2008, 12:49 PM

Sales people should know that they are nothing but whores and that the customer is king...
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Re: My Father's New Car - What To Choose? - 03-08-2008, 01:11 PM

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Sales people should know that they are nothing but whores and that the customer is king...
You're 100% In not of the cases they themselves can't afford the cars they are selling. They should be the ones bending down spreading for the costumers.
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Re: My Father's New Car - What To Choose? - 03-08-2008, 01:18 PM

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Sales people should know that they are nothing but whores and that the customer is king...
Quite harsh but that's how they should act.
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Re: My Father's New Car - What To Choose? - 03-08-2008, 06:17 PM

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Quite harsh but that's how they should act.
Pardon my french...

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You're 100% In not of the cases they themselves can't afford the cars they are selling. They should be the ones bending down spreading for the costumers.
Best example ever must be the Audi Showroom at Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, everytime I visit there are a couple of a bit too young boys there who are supposed to act as informants/sales people... well... how do I say this... they seem totally occupied with their hair and maybe to some extent with rectifying the tennis racquet frimly stuck in their rectum...

Thankfully there is a VW dealer next door and the girls there are both knowledgeable and socially competent...

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Best example ever must be the Audi Showroom at Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, everytime I visit there are a couple of a bit too young boys there who are supposed to act as informants/sales people... well... how do I say this... they seem totally occupied with their hair and maybe to some extent with rectifying the tennis racquet frimly stuck in their rectum...

Thankfully there is a VW dealer next door and the girls there are both knowledgeable and socially competent...
Poor you, so you haven't been properly taken care of by Schtekare from Danderyd? But I hear ya, there's nothing more annying than having to deal with some 20 years old kid who have got a job as a sales person thanks to his father pulling some strings. I've actually been to that dealer in STHML and when I was there they were pretty alright.

In general the service and hospitality is poor at dealerships in Sweden. In Orange County they were fantastic, proper sales guys who not only did not how to sell a car but also how to make a potential customer feel relaxed and comfortable. They approach you in a very relaxed and casual manner. I paid a visit to Porsche, Lexus, Mercedes(Fletcher's), BMW, VW and Nissan. The four mentioned first offer equally as good service although the guy I dealt with at Mercedes was veteran sales guy and was superb as his job. VW were cool as well except that the woman who accompanied me in a GTI was very.........erm..........short of words and barely said anything at all. At Nissan the sales people were a bit obnoxious and didn't know how to properly take care of customers.
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Re: My Father's New Car - What To Choose? - 03-09-2008, 04:54 AM

its one thing if its young kids in the age of 18 coming in but if there is a older man in the 50's and another one in the age og 30 you expect they show intrest in us. You wont sell cars if you dont help the people visiting.
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