Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:01:47 -0800
Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: attention first time buyers
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dear first time buyers
there are ways to do check lists and there are ways to do check lists
moreover there are peole who sell vehicles and people who think you are
inspecting the state of their underwear on the day of the sale ...
the buyer dares to question the sellers integrity by asking if the tires
really only have 5k miles on them
right away the sellers back is up because they know they are lying ...
but more to the point they know they are selling a vehicle that is at least
20 years old ... they had a lot of good times or not ..either way they are
going to be emotionally attached.
and emotionally attached either by good or bad feelings is going to raise
the ire of the seller.
it is sort of like when the police pull you over ... they believe everyone
is guilty of something ..so they push that button first just to see what
they get ...it is likely the seller is as high strung as the person being
questioned is ...
underwriting that emotion is the knowledge that the buyer may reject them
(the van) and it is a science to be able to deal with rejection... very
often the rejected is hurt and says the rejector was a jerk ...
now as far as lists are concerned ...
print the list and read it ...
read it again ... then read it again ...
then have some one read it to you ...or better yet go practice the list on
your friend ...(yes the good friend who always sits up with you when you
have had too much sambuka
then just before you go to look at the vanagon .... read the sheet again ...
you should now have it internalized and assimilated
enter the den ... face the seller ...indeed simply face the vanagon ...you
know what to look for
and what to ask about ...
and remember your seller has a lot invested in this ...even they are a
professional curber or professional top gun seller/reseller/dealer or
backyard seller or some guy or galnwith a vanagon for sale
and what they have invested in it is they fear of rejection ... that will
make people ... even the most solid veritas .. say things they absolutely
"believe to be true"
this vanagon was only driven by a little olde person back from church on
sundays and saturdays with wednesday night worship time not included as they
were always picked up by their cousin joy those nights.
so the bottom line is first time buyer ... and first time sellers .... lists
are great ... no one likes seeing them
no one likes to have one in their hand that they must be dependent on ...
everyone uses them ...
the real question is how to make use of list and not let the seller see you
using a list ...
might i sugest blue tooth conversation with third party on the phone while
you look vanagon over ... bluetooth of camera ask you a question and you
ask seller ...
you look thoughtful and knowledgeable ... seller speaks response or you look
your self and bluetooth off camera hears answer...
first time buyer just dont argue with anyone ... seller or bluetiooth off
camera ...
regards
--
roger w
From Proverbs:
Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a
servant who becomes king ...
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