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Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa
Do women trust women or men more when buying a car?
My gut says a woman, especially a car person who also understands the customer, would clean up selling cars to women. Could you open your own used lot buying off auctions and reselling? Might be a good angle. Just a thought.
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That's what I thought. Statistics I have seen say that women are in control of 70% of all car purchases. I think being a woman would help. And for the husbands: I actually like cars. I work on my own with my husband, read about them, etc.
Here in SC if you want to sell cars as a dealer or broker, you must take a class and get a license. I thought no matter what I chose, I might take the class to learn something about the laws of the state. Its under $200, so not a huge investment to learn something.
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Originally Posted by sammyg2
A good friend of mine just got into that business two months ago out of necessity. $9 an hour to be a peon and bait the customer, then hand him off.
The top salesman at that dealership makes maybe $70k, the average is around $35 to $40k.
The more he tells me about it the sleazier and more disgusting it sounds.
They literally programmed him what to say and what to do and how to act to control and manipulate the customer. No respect whatsoever.
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I do know there are dealers like that. I would attempt to avoid that set up. My hope would be to find a dealer that allows me the opportunity to talk to and close deals as they come up. I do not want a scenario where I do the leg work and someone else makes my money.
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Originally Posted by porsche4life
I thought about it, but the more I talked to dealers the more it sounded like s bad idea. Check into local regs, how hard is it to get a real estate license there? I went that path and am loving it so far.
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I have my real estate license in Alabama on hold. Here in SC I would just need to take some CE credits and pay the fee. The problem is that the housing market is not that great here and is over saturated with realtors.