Re: Car Salespeople

QVCkitty1 · ‎05-23-2015

@Kachina624 wrote:
Dan Hughes always reminded me of a car salesman, with everyone being his buddy from 50 years ago.

I don't miss him.

@Kachina624 , Same.

" You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

@Etoile308 wrote:
This is an insult to car salespeople.

@Etoile308 @coffee drinker

Yes! Very few car sales reps would EVER act as stupidly as some QVC hosts behave.

JMO, of course.

Cats3000 · ‎10-07-2013

@coffee drinker They sound like salesmen, because THEY ARE salesmen. They're not your friends, or confidants, or anything like that. They're trying to get you to buy a product or service whether or not you really want it or need it. That's their job. That's how they keep their jobs. I don't like salesmen. Unfortunately they are a fact of business life. I take their "pitches" with a grain of salt, or I use my remote.

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

@Mz iMac

Grooming?

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

@Tori3569 wrote:
@coffee drinker wrote:
Don't know if I'm the only one who thinks this way, but the hosts seem like car salespeople. Urging you to buy before they're all sold, constantly talking/interupting the vendors. It's getting old. I often wonder if QVC is in real trouble (financially) and really want their hosts pick up their game and just sell, sell, sell no matter what and constantly hawk the TSV for such a long time and many times a day. I do realize it's a hosts job to sell, but not this way.

It's absolutely the way it should be done in these days of steep online competition. The days of conversational hosting on QVC are long over. They had no competition back then and were forging their own road.

@Tori3569 @coffee drinker

ITA ... it's a shopping channel.

Many retailers have gone out of business. You can buy just about anything on Amazon these days. The competition is very steep.

I still buy from QVC but rarely watch presentations. I can only imagine the pressure placed on the hosts to sell MORE.

Mz iMac · ‎07-26-2014

@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

Grooming?

@Tinkrbl44 You left out 2.0

Cats3000 fonted it exactly: "They're not your friends, or confidants, or anything like that. They're trying to get you to buy a product or service whether or not you really want it or need it. That's their job. That's how they keep their jobs."

"Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."

Mz iMac · ‎07-26-2014

@Cats3000 wrote:
They sound like salesmen, because THEY ARE salesmen. They're not your friends, or confidants, or anything like that. They're trying to get you to buy a product or service whether or not you really want it or need it. That's their job. That's how they keep their jobs.

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"Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."

CalminHeart · ‎03-09-2010

@coffee drinker wrote:
Don't know if I'm the only one who thinks this way, but the hosts seem like car salespeople. Urging you to buy before they're all sold, constantly talking/interupting the vendors. It's getting old. I often wonder if QVC is in real trouble (financially) and really want their hosts pick up their game and just sell, sell, sell no matter what and constantly hawk the TSV for such a long time and many times a day. I do realize it's a hosts job to sell, but not this way.

Q is in a lot of financial trouble.

Their stock was kicked off the market because it couldn't even maintain $1 per share.

Their financial reports have reported losses for many years now.

Their marketing schemes are ridiculous and often ageist.

It's like groundhog day on Q....airing the same things week after week, year after year.

Hosts are expected to do acrobatics if it makes a sale. So many behave like pre-teens on air under the guise of trying to be family. They aren't our friends or acquantances and will never be. They're salespeople trying to keep their jobs.

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

@Cats3000 wrote:
@coffee drinker They sound like salesmen, because THEY ARE salesmen. They're not your friends, or confidants, or anything like that. They're trying to get you to buy a product or service whether or not you really want it or need it. That's their job. That's how they keep their jobs. I don't like salesmen. Unfortunately they are a fact of business life. I take their "pitches" with a grain of salt, or I use my remote.

@Cats3000 @coffee drinker

Years ago, a friend sold cars for approximately a year and said he'd never do it again.

Reason?

How often do people actually purchase cars? NOT very often.

I buy groceries on a regular basis, but the last time I bought a car was 11 years ago!

So, someone coming into a dealership to look at cars may be a now-or-never situation for the salesperson.

Additionally, people can do all their research on the internet these days, and only the test drive remains. You can't do a meaningful test drive on the internet ... yet.