I tend to lump salesmen in with politicians and lawyers; they all have an agenda, but it's usually not in the direction of YOUR best interest.  It sounds like this guy was hoping to make a Yamaha sale using fear, insults, and customer alienation.   Whereas, a smarter salesman with an altogether different tactic could maybe have persuaded you to think about it.

serow,
can you link me please? I wanna be prepared incase it happens to mine

Am I just stupid or was this guy a complete douchbag?



Im just gonna say I dont think youre stupid & Ill let you work out the rest of it,,
OHH, & when you send him his Christmas card, spell his name right

Douchebag,,

I was in sales for a long time, and I took good care of my customers. Consequently I had more customers and fewer problems. Some people like to tell you what they know whether they are helping or not. Usually they can't scratch their ass with a Bobcat in each hand and fall back on heresay to look educated or wise. Verslagen has been talking about the timing problems for years, but he has a solution and knows his business. We know the Savage has some petcock problems, but we have several solutions--check Serowbot's tech post. Neither will tell you the Savage is junk. Remember, tomorrow you'll have forgotten that guy and he'll still be stupid...or maybe he just had a bad day.  

bojangals43 wrote on 06/12/12 at 15:07:21:

Proper response would be "HOLY COW!  when did you escape from the old folks home."  

Some of the pre90's did.  post 95's have a torque limiter gear to prevent it.  But I do have some more investigating to do.  It may be caused by a misalignment of the pinion gear with the starter clutch.

Probably just trying to spook you into buying a brand new, super reliable whatever he's selling.

I drive a Jeep Grand Cherokee. It's blue, it's a Laredo (base model, except for leather seats vs cloth and a CD player). Not the big, beefier V8, doesn't have a tow package. Nothing that would make it desirable.
It was my dad's before it was mine. When it was time for him to sell it I bought it because I got a deal for being his son and I knew the history of it. I knew it had all it's maintenance etc.
I'm drifting, anyway. Some guy called my dad. Said he got his phone number from the stealership and was looking for my exact Jeep in my exact color and was willing to offer me 1500 more than blue book for it.

1) I'm supposed to believe the dealership gave this guy records of who bought what vehicles?
2) Then gave up my dad's phone number?
3) and that now someone wants a base model vehicle with 200,000+ miles when they could have the same truck, if not better with less miles on craigslist or even ebay for less money?

I call BS sales tactics.


--Steve

arteacher wrote on 06/13/12 at 10:05:57:

I have to agree. My favorite used car lot around here (Unfortunately not in business any more ), you'd go start looking around, they'd come out and ask if they could help you, if you said "just looking", they'd say "just lemme know if you need the key to anything" and leave you alone. No high pressure sales or anything!  I gave them most of my business, and was always recommending them, which is the added bonus for treating your customers right.