I wish I heard about it.
03-22-07, 07:33 PM
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I wish I heard about it.
http://www.autospies.com/news/The-du...o-hours-13542/
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The dumbest car sales manager on earth? Loses dealership close to $1M in two hours
Agent001 submitted on 03/20/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:39 PM
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The dumbest car sales manager on earth? Loses dealership close to $1M in two hours
Porsche dealer - "I got it wrong with the buy one get one free card".
Glen Fergusson - Sales and Marketing manager for a brand new Californian Porsche dealer. Has lost his job and faces possible legal proceedings as the company strives to reclaim the costs of the 18 Porches given away free under Glen's Opening day "buy one get one free promotion" "I admit I didn't really do the numbers properly on this one" said Glen who told reporters that he had "seen the concept work really well for coffee stores" and in terms of numbers you could argue that Glen's campaign worked. As the new Porsche dealer sold 18 Porches in the first hour of the store opening.
It took the head office a full hour to realise what was going on and subsequently shut the store.
Local man Bruce Stepper took out a second mortgage on his home after getting a promotional flyer in his mailbox. "I am ecstatic - I brought a shiny red Porsche today, got another one free and I have sold just sold it on EBay, all up I end up getting a Porsche 911 for $5000"
Jane Cameron was arguably even more entrepreneurial. The local Janitor purchased a Porsche using the dealers "no deposit finance plan for low income earners", sold both cars, paid off the finance account and walked away with $120,000 profit. The finance plan was another one of Glen's initiatives that has now been cancelled.
A red faced Glen stated "I have never really been too good at Math and I was sure the whole time we were making money - I was initially blown away by the amount of cars we were selling in that first hour. I had seen the "buy one get one free card" work extremely well for the new coffee shop down the road and thought what a great idea I will try it here."
National spokesman for the dealership chain was quoted as saying "We are just glad that the idiot didn’t have time to run with his 'test drive 5 cars, get one free loyalty stamp card' campaign.
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The dumbest car sales manager on earth? Loses dealership close to $1M in two hours
Agent001 submitted on 03/20/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:39 PM
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Tags: Porsche, Sales Manager
The dumbest car sales manager on earth? Loses dealership close to $1M in two hours
Porsche dealer - "I got it wrong with the buy one get one free card".
Glen Fergusson - Sales and Marketing manager for a brand new Californian Porsche dealer. Has lost his job and faces possible legal proceedings as the company strives to reclaim the costs of the 18 Porches given away free under Glen's Opening day "buy one get one free promotion" "I admit I didn't really do the numbers properly on this one" said Glen who told reporters that he had "seen the concept work really well for coffee stores" and in terms of numbers you could argue that Glen's campaign worked. As the new Porsche dealer sold 18 Porches in the first hour of the store opening.
It took the head office a full hour to realise what was going on and subsequently shut the store.
Local man Bruce Stepper took out a second mortgage on his home after getting a promotional flyer in his mailbox. "I am ecstatic - I brought a shiny red Porsche today, got another one free and I have sold just sold it on EBay, all up I end up getting a Porsche 911 for $5000"
Jane Cameron was arguably even more entrepreneurial. The local Janitor purchased a Porsche using the dealers "no deposit finance plan for low income earners", sold both cars, paid off the finance account and walked away with $120,000 profit. The finance plan was another one of Glen's initiatives that has now been cancelled.
A red faced Glen stated "I have never really been too good at Math and I was sure the whole time we were making money - I was initially blown away by the amount of cars we were selling in that first hour. I had seen the "buy one get one free card" work extremely well for the new coffee shop down the road and thought what a great idea I will try it here."
National spokesman for the dealership chain was quoted as saying "We are just glad that the idiot didn’t have time to run with his 'test drive 5 cars, get one free loyalty stamp card' campaign.
03-22-07, 08:31 PM
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i had no idea someone with that level of intelligence could be a marketing manager!
i should run for the president
oh wait, i dont need brains for that job either
i should run for the president
oh wait, i dont need brains for that job either
03-23-07, 12:22 AM
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This has to be a joke. I mean come on, this isnt even a reasonable idea. As mentioned on the site in some of the comments, how could no one have figured something out wrong with this? This would seemingly fail some sort of reasonableness check, wouldnt it? We're all the employees former Starbucks employees? Had none of them any experience in the auto industry? Do any of them own a car or even drive?!?! I really have trouble believing this one.
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03-26-07, 07:33 PM
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Just checked my watch, it's not April 1st yet. But this is a bogus story, for if it was real it would be all over the Drive By Media. A Porsche dealer is not going to hire some goon as sales manager who 'isn't too good with math'.
Better yet..a porsche.
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