TT shopping frustration

Shorteelaw wrote:

jmtandem wrote:

I guess I came on here for some advice on how to deal with these pushy salesman but instead I'm getting the same attitude of me not know anything.

You ask the right questions; you get the right answers! Everybody on this thread is taking time to help you. And you don't seem to appreciate it. You talk dry weights in your opening question. Everybody knows to look at real user or gross weights to calculate your answer. Nobody talks dry weights; you open the discussion with dry weights so what do you expect from us?

As to how to deal with salespeople. Easy answer-- know the products you want to look at and all their pertinent capacities and weights. Then tell the sales folks that only those are the ones you care to look at, nothing heavier or bigger. You tell them what you want, not them telling you what will work; you set the parameters, not them; you drive the discussion, not them. Do your due diligence before you show up at the dealership and your issues will be greatly minimized. A good salesperson will ask what you want and then try to sell you that or more. They are only doing what any good salesperson would do. Play the game, know your numbers before you go in. Every number on every model you want to look at is web based on line and easy to look up.

I very much appreciate most user's comments. If I didn't I wouldn't continue to come here for help. I don't appreciate those who expect me to be an expert and twist my words around or claim that I posted things I didn't or say I'm going to make extremely unwise decisions.

To me, dry weight is important because TT's have such a wide range of cargo capacities and no matter what trailer we go with, the number for us isn't going to change much. There are some TT's with a 950 cargo capacity and some with a 2000+ pound one. The one that has 2,000 pounds could very well be in our weight limit since we won't be hauling 2000 pounds. I hope that makes sense.

I appreciate your advice as to handle the sales people.