Following a long talk with a customer this morning, who bought her 13 month old car in to be looked at, i sat down with James and digested what the customer had explained to me.
This same customer's sat down with us 3 months ago before they purchased the said Focus that she bought in this morning, the difference between buying from us came down to we were "too nice". My words not hers but this is what happened
- We let her test drive with her daughter, without us in the car making her nervous.
- We didn't put any preasure on her to buy the car there and then.
- We explained our car had a warranty for 30 months.
- We would service the car before she had it, and re valet the car for her.
- We gave her a better part exchange price than she eventually achieved.
The reason they didn't buy our car was that there daughter found the same car! £400 cheaper but 130 miles away and they went to see it, after all £400 is £400. When they arrived there the car they had seen on the web site wasnt there (even though there daughter had called to check that morning) it was at another branch. But after agreeing that it was the model and colour they were looking for, the sales person went to value there car, and they then found themselves in a high pressure sales process that ended with them signing an order form and leaving a £500 deposit for a car they haden't seen, and the crunch was they ended up paying more for the car, as there was a purchasers admin fee, extra for it to be valeted and serviced. And although they purchased the car, they said they would never go there again, and didn't have a good word to say about them.
But even after learning about this, we will not be changing the way we do business.
After all we still want to treat people the way we would want to be treated.
Hassle free
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