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YOUR RESEARCHBuy one, get one free........genius!
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just glad that the idiot didn't have time to run with his 'test drive 5
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just glad that the idiot didn't have time to run with his 'test drive 5
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purchased a Porsche using the dealers "no deposit finance plan for low
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The West Coast gets too much sun:
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.
I couldn't find it on
www.snopes.com
, but I'm probably not finding the right keywords. I can't imagine that it is true, tho, you don't get to be a manager of a Porsche dealership without having a VERY solid grasp of the mathematics behind car sales...
yea looks like someone jumped the gun on that one
speaking of that, I wonder if they do April Fools Day here in Europe???
tonight I leave for self-planned tour of Western Europe, first stop Zurich, Switzerland, then Geneva, and I have to book a train from Geneva to Modena, Italy... last thing I need is the ticket office telling me "oh there's no seats available for that train, looks like you're stuck here.... APRIL FOOLS!!!"
then again, I'm hoping they speak English there, considering the ppl here in Vienna told me "ein bisschen", which despite having a decent grasp on German, there's still plenty of travel/automotive/sports/daily terms that I don't know(just the stuff I need to know to write papers
) there's no way I'm gonna understand that mumbo-jumbo known as Schwiezer Dutsch(Swiss-German)
But back to the subject... if this isn't just an April Fools joke then a) wow what a deal!, b) if this guy gets fired then whoever hired that guy as manager needs to be fired as well, I figured it would take a pretty high standard just to be a lot porter at a Porsche Dealership, let alone the freakin Manager....
