A DeNiro buying experience on film - this is GREAT!!

[Craig 930 RS]

http://tinyurl.com/6rsjr

This is a classic!

[Overpaid Slacker]

I'm still laughing...
"You're not a customer..."

JP

[ed martin]

That was perfect! Having, years ago the experience of selling cars, this scene nails it! There's a lot of car sales scenarios written, but I usually shake my head because they never ring true. It is obvious the writer had never had the experience of selling a car. Scenes like this are usually written from the perspective of perceived stereotypes with the author never having walked in the shoes of the subject. This writer obviously had to have done his homework and actually spent some time selling cars and observed. What really kills me is the prim and proper prospects and Dinero trying to close them. If you ever had to sell cars and go through the whole rigormorol , the walk around, the test drive and then at the end the prospects give you that look! " We have to think about it" It is classic. I've actually seen this same scenario in real life many times( minus the exaggerated physicality), and I'm sure you're thinking the sales person is really the jerk, but you might be surprised how many cars this personality type can sell. Of course Dineros' reaction was way over the top, but it pretty accurately portrays the frustration of trying to sell. Very funny.

[RickM]

ROFLMAO........"You want the manager!...Here's the manager!"

[Craig 930 RS]

Deniro & I.....we have the same manager

[speeder]

That's Dinero.

I agree that the writer must have sold cars for a minute in a past life. Not surprising, since most of the guys that I sold cars with did not sit around and dream about being car salemen when they were kids. What is this scene from? It's very funny. The other good one, IMO, is when Larry David tries to sell cars for a day in "Curb Your Enthusiasm".

[84porsche]

That was awesome. I usually stay out of dealerships unless I really want to test drive a car.

[kaisen]

The scene is from Analyze This

[kaisen]

Or is it Analyze That? (the sequel)

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[cegerer]

I had a close encounter with a salesman like that when I bought my first 911. I asked the guy if he could tell me a little about the car (OK, dumb question ...). He's says, "it's a Porsche, it's a Targa, and it's red. What more could you possibly need to know?"

[kaisen]

Car salespeople are often ignorant about their products because the buying public simply doesn't care.
'We' are different, of course, but the average used-Taurus buyer isn't asking about sway bar size or injector pulse width.
If you knew EVERYTHING about the car you sold, you'd still sell as many cars as your peers, maybe less.
But if you knew ANYTHING about the PEOPLE you sold to, you'd be a superstar......even if you were a moron when it came to the car itself.

They're in the 'people' business, not the 'car' business.

It's a shame that so many salespeople just don't get it, and give the industry its deserved tarnish.

Did anyone see 'Boss Swap' the other day where the Type A Ferrari salesman swapped jobs with the touchy-feely 'Cosmo' trinket sales lady? That was hilarious to see the 'typical' car sales environment and imagine that anyone bought cars there. And they were selling EXPENSIVE cars.

Only in LA, I guess. It wouldn't fly here for a minute. Everyone is too 'Minnesota-nice', as they say. In fact, a recent mystery-shopping study here in the Twin Cities (Mpls/StPaul, MN) showed that only 50% of mystery shoppers were even ASKED to buy the car. If you don't ask for the sale, you won't get a sale. I guess there's a difference between low pressure and no pressure.

It's like Gretzky said, "I miss 100% of the shots I don't take"

At least DeNiro asked for the sale.

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[RANDY P]

Oh yeah, I hate it when they give you "that look" - Go back to qualifcation if that happens.

Could've gotten it out of them earlier and saved an hour.

rjp