Would you care if your car salesman smelled like smoke?
By Cars & Motorcycles on Apr 24, 2009 with Comments 27
Nathan asked: say he’s friendly, 24 years old and pretty nice looking. remember you’ll be taking a test drive with him and negotiating about the price and he’ll be answering all your questions about the car. would him being a smoker make you less or more likely to buy the car or wouldn’t you care? just wondering
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If he could get someone to loan me the money with my credit score, he can smell like death warmed over for all I care!
UMMM I HATE SMOKING. PROBABLY NOT I STILL WOULD BUY THE COOKIE
it would not matter
I would still buy the car if I really wanted it.
But if I saw him smoking I would probably get a different salesperson.
Unfortunately to me it does matter~ i have severe asthma and very sensitive sinus’ and my sense of smell is very acute. The smell of second hand smoke~ be it in the air or on someone~ takes the air right out of my lungs and I choke and can not breath. It makes me feel like Im going to die~ and scares me because I cant get my breath.
I would have to ask for another sales man.
And the funny thing~ I used to smoke for years!!
You know, just KNOWING the car salesman smoked wouldn’t bother me. After all, my only relationship with the salesman would be professional and to buy the car; whether he smoked or shot heroin in his private life is no business of mine, as long as it didn’t affect the job.
HOWEVER –
If the salesman SMELLED like smoke, then YES, that would unquestionably affect my likelihood of buying a car from the guy.
It’s akin to someone having snot in his moustache. Or spilled food on the front of his shirt. Or if he picked his nose. Any of those preventable, disgusting things I have to deal with affect my impression of a person and his professionalism. Plus, I just don’t want to have to deal with it.
Smoke STINKS. Particularly badly to some people. I’d just as soon go for a test drive with someone who hadn’t showered in a week and was passing gas throughout the test drive.
Nope, wouldn’t bother me at all.
Although, some non-smokers are bothered by the smell, so that’s something you might want to consider if you think you can earn more in commissions by selling more cars to non-smokers.
Peace!
The Marlboro Man