I worked at a car Dealership as a sales person and hated it.
so as the title says, i did work at a dealership. i worked there for almost 5 months. my first ever sales job and i honestly hated it, the pay sucks 16 an hour and the only way you can make money is basically scamming people who don't know any better when it takes 2 seconds to look at our website and see that theres a 10k discount on our cars and were trying to sell it at MSRP to make 20 percent of the front end gross. we used to get payed 25 percent which trust me was good but for me personally made me feel bad. but i made sure people who didn't make much money got a good deal regardless if i was missing out on money, deal thats could've been 600 dollars and are 100 because i wanted to help. the only time i do full MSRP deals is when its for someone who needs it for tax write offs, or if they don't care about the price or for a business, other than that i do not say the MSRP. The owner actually gets upset when we tell people our online price, well in this case me because everyone else is out to get that MSRP. and i feel like the worst part is our used cars. because if they don't look at our online price we can basically create our own price. so if a car is already listed for 35k online and has 2k in front end gross thats 400 to your pocket but if you want to make 1k for that deal you just add 3k to it, tell them its 38k for the car than after hit them with add-ons or if they fight the price than its fine because at least you're making 400 and bring them back to the online price and make them believe their getting a good deal. but add-ons make us 25 dollars for each add-on and 75 dollars for warranty and maintenance or gap. and our minis, which are cars that are losers which means the dealership is already lower than what they have the car for you make an automatic 100. and the reason they let it happen is because they hope you buy warranties. and they'd make money from that. now trust me there was trucks that actually were a good deal because they were for cheaper than the invoice price. but in most cases all this even if i made good money from some deals made me hate working in sales. and according to my bosses at the time, my biggest issue was that i was too much of a nice person they said to get into my head and realize the payment was for them not me its for them to worry about it. i hate dealerships, i do not want to work in that ever again and and make 20 PERCENT of what the owner is taking home, like its so dumb. I try and scam someone and potentially ruin their life for 7 years just to make 400-1k dollars, and if its ever an issue im going to come to mind and not the owner? so i work it, take the fall for it and only make 400 when the owner takes a lot more with zero risk. makes zero sense. Im so glad i don't work there. people go in looking for a car because you need it not because you want it and you decide to scam them an extra 3k just to make an extra 600 for yourself when the owner walks away with an extra 2k. FYI i worked there because i was in need for a job, everyone hates those Indians who call and scam you but you're okay with it when it comes from a person in front of you who's scamming you just to make an Indian richer. lol and yes the owner was in fact Indian. FUCK DEALERSHIPS AND FUCK THE OWNERS!