I'm buying a car. I don't want to but whatever, life happens. I test drove all the electric cars last weekend and wanted to test a Lucid.
A slovenly man who didn't remove his airpods, in front of other people in the store, heard me explain that I'm test driving Polestar, Rivian, etc. because I need to buy a car, and asked me "Sure but are you in the market for a car?"
Believing him to be simple, in part due to his taste-free Hublot watch, I explained that yes, I'm in a mall in Marin test driving cars on a Saturday not for a good time, but with the specific intention of buying one.
My wife saw storm clouds approaching when another person laughed and hurried out of the shop when they heard the Lucid employee try to explain to me how very expensive his cars are ("okay if I have a honda civic and a rolls royce...").
I stopped him and asked if there was some problem with me test driving a car. "This car, for example, is $125,000," he said, as if that explained it all. It took all my composure to not say "You work on commission, right? Big mistake. Huge!" (NB I later found out they do not work on commission, which makes it all the weirder that this guy appeared to judge me as unable to afford what is a relatively modestly priced car for the bay area...)
Best of luck with the sales technique of patronizing potential customers, we'll go elsewhere. read more