The Goods
I took time out Friday to go see “The Goods” Friday. A long time ago I wrote an article about the traveling car dealership promotional sale scam, and I got to say, this movie was actually pretty realistic to what I experienced when working for a local dealer.
Nearly every part, from the diverse characters to the flipping over a number to add 3 grand to the price of a car, it was déjà vu but funny as hell. I enjoyed seeing it played out as a comedy on the big screen instead of real customers getting taken in a game equivalent to a three card Monte table at a car dealership.
In the movie this sale was done as an attempt to save a dealership going down the tubes. I always thought when I saw a dealer do these that they must be desperate to treat customers in the way these traveling goonies do. All of us at the dealership referred to them as over paid carnies. Good movie though, a lot of cussing but that’s how it really was for me so I expected it.
I find it hilarious that you worked for a Used car Dealership, which throughout history has scammed more people then anything, yet you run a site to expose scammers… I just don’t get it my friend..
Talk about the calling the Kettle Black
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Easy with the assumptions and unsubstantiated claims there man. Its ok though and I give you the benefit of the doubt. I never really gave that much detail about my days working for a car dealership so maybe I could clear that up by telling you more. For starters, I didn’t work for a used car dealer like what was depicted in the movie. I worked for a full line General Motors dealership that sold mostly new cars but did have a used sections as well. My time there could be measured in months or weeks it was so brief.
I feel this dealer was honest 99.9% of the time and I never allowed anything to be done to my customers that wasn’t fair and straight. When the promo sales came to town they took over all control of the dealership and employees and that’s ultimately why I left. After seeing how these guys did what they did I just stopped coming to work when they were there. They deployed tactics that were nothing but dirty and wrong trying to maximize the amount of money they could burry someone in a car.
Selling cars was hard because most people have that same assumption you do about car salespeople being crooks. While many are, they aren’t all. There is just as many crooks embedded in other professions as there are car dealers. Its important to be informed of the tricks dealers use when you purchase a car, but don’t step out of your car assuming that every dealer is going to deploy them.
I would love to see the facts and statistics that you used to present your point that car dealers have scammed the highest number of people in history. Please tell us where you got this factual data. Maybe things are different in Utah but where I am from car dealers are the least of our worries for being scammed. Just need to use common sense and stay away from promo sales and read what you are signing.