avoidcrowds wrote:
You reap what you sow. If you go in with the attitude the salesman is a lying scumbag, you will get treated with distrust. Take what they say with a grain of salt, but don't assume that if their lips are moving, they are lying.
Some salesmen lie. Many tell the truth, as they believe it to be. Most know the specs of the trailer. Fewer understand towing capacity, payload, GCVW, etc. Some know weights very well. Don't discount everything said, just be sure that, if you don't understand it, ask them to explain. If they stumble and stammer, they don't know what they are talking about with regard to that topic. Note your question, and have someone else answer it.
The salesman is your source of information while you are looking at the unit. Don't buy based on what the salesman tells you, but compare what he tells you with what your other research has revealed.
To paint all salesmen with the same brush is doing yourself a disservice. Some don't know what they are talking about. Others do lie, just to make a sale. The majority, though, know that they need to feature the TT in its best light, so they can feed their family. What is wrong with that? Should none of us be trusted to do our own job honestly, since we have the job so we can feed our family? Come on, cut them some slack, unless you don't trust the individual. You can always request a different salesman, if you don't like the one you started with.
I don't go into a dealership thinking the sales person is a lying scumbag. But on the other hand, my experience has been that when I am shopping for an RV or a car or truck, I always have done research before I go to a dealer. And I have never yet run across a sales person who knows more about what they are selling than I know having done just a modicum of research. That's not any testament to my thoroughness nor my intelligence, just to my experience that sales people seldom know much about what they are selling. A sad but true fact, tho I understand there can be exceptions.
So my attitude based on long experience is that I'm not looking for any information from the sales guy, as in general I don't trust it and don't need it. I can get my own information independently.
