I was embarrassed for him early.
Buying. Fish. Cod.
Jesus.
Organic salmon from a fish farm in Clare island.Organic Salmon now with real Salmon
Was this yours? You donāt normally write drivel like that with all the full stops.
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Organic from the bay near the cruise ship outpipe
Someone just spent 200 thousand on this restoration 
@carryharry or anyone else.
I just rang up to enquire about trading in one of my bikes (BMW r1200r) for a Honda F6c Iāve got my eye on. The lad took the details, and said heād speak to his manager, and was back after about 30 seconds.
They offered me 2700 trade in. Given the cheapest that you could buy anywhere on auto trader is 4.4k, I thought this a bit light and said so. The lad said what did they need to make the sale. I said Iād like 3100 which would mean my bike and 8.5k. Your man said would I guarantee to purchase and put down a deposit now āif I go to.my manager and make it workā.
I said I probably would, but let him ask first.
Your man said he wouldnāt ask unless I guaranteed to proceed.
I got a but stubborn, and said I wouldnāt guarantee to until they made an offer.
Your man refused to make an offer without a verbal guarantee.
I said not to fret about it then, and hung up.
Is this a usual way of selling vehicles?
verbal guarantee isnt worth fuck all
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Has he never rented a 1990s video tape?
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I thought the whole thing was bizarre. The first time he āchecked with his bossā it took 30 seconds. Canāt understand what his issue was genuinely 
Unless for some bizarre reason the call was recorded which is probably still a bit light
A lot of car / bike dealerships over there have salesmen who must run each deal by managers afaik.
Nothing unusual really
I realise that. Did you ever hear of one refusing point blank to ask unless the customer verbally guaranteed to accept?
Iād be surprised if the call wasnāt recorded. I found the whole thing so odd I wonder if it could have been a scam.
You seems bit slow on the uptake here. A salesman refused to make an offer unless I guaranteed to agree to it. If one of ours did that theyād be warned.
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His boss might just be a cunt
Refused to bring your offer to his boss unless you guaranteed to agree to it
A bit different tbf
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I didnāt make an offer. He asked what would I want for my bike to consider it. I told him a figure Iād consider. Given it took him about 30 seconds to ok the previous low ball offer, it would have taken about 5 seconds for a yes or no. He refused to even ask unless I guaranteed.
To be honest, I think when he asked was I cash or finance, and I said cash, he wanted out. Like I said, the cheapest private sale similar bike on auto trader to the one I was trading in was 1600 more than he offered me as trade in initially. The cheapest dealer one was double. I thought the whole thing a bit odd. Iām wondering was it a scam tbh. He even initially got the price of the bike forvsake wrong when offering a trade in, undervaluing it by 5 grand.
Youāre being extremely precious here
Look mate, I went on auto trader. There was a section asking if you wanted to trade-in a bike. I entered the details. They then rang me out of the blue, went through mine in detail before he clearly mumbled to āhis bossā who was in the same room. They made a fairly derisory trade in offer which I declined. He then asked what I wanted to consider it. I told him. He refused to then mumble to āhis bossā in the same room unless I guaranteed to purchase the bike and put down a deposit then an there. I hadnāt seen the bike I was purchasing. All I had done was make an enquiry in the section where it said āenquire about a trade in value for your bikeā.
I wasnāt guaranteeing anything over the phone. Why should I? This is a genuine question. You obviously feel it was perfectly reasonable for me to guarantee to leave a deposit over the phone to a man whoās rung me out of the blue when I answered an aurotrader advert and filled in an enquiry form. You clearly have money you are desperate to be rid of.
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