Pangaea Ron wrote:
Dale.Traveling wrote:
Working retail sales with a commissioned based salary is a high turn over occupation. It is a very rare occurrence to find someone on the sales staff that actually owns or did own a rig of some type and their experience out in the woods is beyond Scouting 30 years earlier. For most of us owners our rigs are a labor of love or hobby. Turn the hobby into a job takes the fun out of it. Some can do such as a camp host but those individuals are not as common as we wish.
I had a salesman at a major PNW RV operation who did actually own an RV. He was showing me the stock, then looked around, reached inside his jacket and pulled out a photograph. ( I thought that is was going to be porn by the guilty look on his face). It was a photograph of his MH that he wanted to sell, he said it was much better and cheaper than anything here, and wanted me to go to his home to view it later. A real quality guy.
And the dealer should fire him. Using the dealership's advertising (that's how every customer on the lot got there, be it print ads, internet ads, signage, radio ads, TV ads or whatever) to sell their personal vehicles is ethically wrong and a form of stealing. On top of that he slammed his employers entire inventory while doing it.
Probably he was "curbing" rigs on the side, and that rig was "his personal rig" only in the most literal sense. He probably did own it and bought it exactly to do what he was doing, selling it while bypassing his employer to make 100% of the profit instead of the 20% to 30% commission he would make if he sold a rig out of the dealer's inventory.
Of course it is also possible that the every salesperson had a rig or two to claim as their own with the dealer's approval to make it seem like the customer was getting a brother in law deal. If that was the case, forget firing the salesperson, run the dealer out of business instead for being a complete fraud.
