The sales industry is not set up to encourage salesmen to be honest. They justify it with sayings like, "buyers are liars." Which in there twisted mind means that since buyers won't always tell you how much they want to spend or whether they are ready to buy that it's OK for them to use all kinds of tricks and cons. Thing is buyers wouldn't need to lie nearly so much if sellers weren't always trying to rip them off. I managed to make a career about of being an honest sales person by knowing my product better than anybody else and giving amazing customer service but it wasn't easy and no I never got rich doing it that way. Eventually I got burnt out from it because of asshole bosses on one side of me and entitled hateful customers on the other. Besides the way I did my job is disappearing faster and faster as a lot of people only care about how cheaply they can buy and it and how quickly they can get it and companies have always paid people the minimum amount possible for the maximum amount of effort they could squeeze out of you.
It is a good character moment in this movie; The guy tries to be a cut-throat salesman - but he has a heart. He'll cut you a deal, but he won't rob you.
What it shows you is not that he tries to, but that he actually CAN be a cut-throat salesman, if he wanted to. A very good one. But he has morals and principles, and chooses to be an honest person instead.
Man, I just love Judge's roles in this movie! I shopped at Frederate Electronis many times back in those days and I sure wished I would run across a salesman like Judge Reinhold!!!
I love how he immediately changes his mind when he sees the pregnant girlfriend not wanting to put a soon-to-become-father and his family in debt. Like someone else said: the kidnappers were the most decent persons in this movie.
I love that film, great cast and that scene is very funny. I still am interested in HiFi and find my self using phrases like "We need to go into the big room" and especially the final "bury you" punchline. Never dated. I may modify my will so as to stipulate that I want to be buried in my loudspeakers when I die, though cremation first will be necessary to fit me in
@soundmusiclover I know what you mean. I had this scene in my head for days, and finally decided to look it up. All I could remember was a sales guy upselling to a kid, and then feeling bad when he saw the kid had a pregnant wife/girlfriend.
this has been on my mind, I'd like to show this to some customers for fun at my car stereo store. This stuck with me even after probably 25 years! This scene as well as one of the outtakes from Boogie Nights where Don Cheadle is describing how he'd upgrade "Amber's" van stereo, with talk about quads, etc.. oh man, toooooo funny!
yeahhhhh!!!! fish hook! electric prong?!!! Stick a needle in my arm!! Raw meat! Alka Seltzer! I wonder who wrote and recorded that??? I saw this movie as a kid in theaters and some of the scenes and lines I can still remember after all these years! Underrated comedy
I've allowed myself to let my better half talk me into a more expensive mattress than I wanted to buy exactly one time in my life. It turned out to be a POS that was worn out in less than 5 years. Best mattresses I've bought have been cheap but firm mattresses that I then went and bought a super nice mattress topper for separately. All a pillow top mattress amounts to is a mattress topper being permanently attacked and when they wear out you can't replace them or fix them so the mattress becomes worthless. Whereas if my mattress topper that I bought separately gets deformed I can just go get a new one for a tiny fraction of the cost of a whole new mattress set. Super expensive mattresses are an enormous waste of money that don't last 9 times out of 10.
true story: I was young and dumb and new in town and this white van pulls up and offers me "over ordered" speakers no questioned asked which are fucking gigantic, and wont be missed if they aren't returned to the warehouse. The guys offers me them cash in hand for as much as I can afford, all the while looking around like we need to keep this super hush and secret. I paid up and they drove me home, unloaded the speakers and handed me a receipt and 2 year guarantee and drove off lol. They really weren't bad as it happens, I had them for years, and didn't even learn it was scam until about 2 years later. haha
One of my first jobs after college was selling home entertainment. Like most places that sold big ticket items on commission the company was full of sleezy tactics they wanted us to use and rip offs like extended warranties and in house financing they wanted us to push. I did pretty well as a salesperson NOT using those tactics by being honest and knowing my product line but they were always riding my ass about warranty and credit card sign ups because I could see what a huge ripoff they were and hated pushing that stuff. I worked there maybe a year until they went out of business. I'd like to think I was this kind of salesperson. Of course d bags like the guy in the Ferrari jacket always thought they knew better and ended up with whatever shit thing was popular at the time.
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 I see. In the glory days of “Showrooming”. I remember those. Mom used to work for Venture back during Autumn 1993. She took me and my then 5 year old baby brother to work one day and I saw firsthand how showrooming was practiced. It was all about commission back then.
He doesn’t doubt his ability to sell, but he wants to be ruthless. He wants to close big deals consistently and sell something just because he can. It’s a different level.
0:03 Oh I see Give me the Reason By Luther Vandross was featured in the movie Ruthless People. Sorry about that because I didn't see this movie before.
I think it might have been written for the movie and recorded by studio musicians...it may very well not be a full song, but just 30-60 seconds long, created for the scene.
I have 4 15 inch woofers 2 horns 4 8inch woofers 2 8 inch midrange 2 1 inch tweeters 4 inch silk tweeters 4 4 inch woofers with bullets to cool voice coils 15 inch 600 Watt RMS active sub and a 10 inch sub in the Logitech z5500 using a Panasonic hi res mini system source to a dual 31 band EQ running into a Yamaha rxv 659 amp a Onkyo 603 amp and the Logitech z5500 the sound is warm clear and powerfull with tight bass its the closest I will get to the dominator X 10 speakers the sound is so sweet like honey to me I just want to play my stereo as often as possible but I respect my neighbours and play it for a few hours at a time in afternoon and turn it off at sundown 😀
I was always taught that the largest woofer needed was a 12 inch because any base sound it couldn't make was below the register that people could hear it at anyway. With a 15 inch you can feel it but you can't really hear it. The midrange and tweeter set up you have sounds way above average and you mentioned some very high quality brands. Which speaker brand or brands did you get since you didn't happen to mention that?
This may very well be source music...sometimes a composer is asked to write a short song to be played on a radio for 30 seconds or so. It's less common now, but in the past, you'd have a character turn on a radio and there would be some generic country or rock song that the film's composer knocked out just for the scene.
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The most honest salesman ever. It's too bad honest salesmen are almost completely fictional, I've only met one in my lifetime.
An honest salesman is a poor one, that's for sure.
The sales industry is not set up to encourage salesmen to be honest. They justify it with sayings like, "buyers are liars." Which in there twisted mind means that since buyers won't always tell you how much they want to spend or whether they are ready to buy that it's OK for them to use all kinds of tricks and cons. Thing is buyers wouldn't need to lie nearly so much if sellers weren't always trying to rip them off. I managed to make a career about of being an honest sales person by knowing my product better than anybody else and giving amazing customer service but it wasn't easy and no I never got rich doing it that way. Eventually I got burnt out from it because of asshole bosses on one side of me and entitled hateful customers on the other. Besides the way I did my job is disappearing faster and faster as a lot of people only care about how cheaply they can buy and it and how quickly they can get it and companies have always paid people the minimum amount possible for the maximum amount of effort they could squeeze out of you.
Judge's voice is like butter.
He has one of the sexiest, calming voices ever. And great looking guy too.
It is a good character moment in this movie; The guy tries to be a cut-throat salesman - but he has a heart. He'll cut you a deal, but he won't rob you.
What it shows you is not that he tries to, but that he actually CAN be a cut-throat salesman, if he wanted to. A very good one. But he has morals and principles, and chooses to be an honest person instead.
Man, I just love Judge's roles in this movie! I shopped at Frederate Electronis many times back in those days and I sure wished I would run across a salesman like Judge Reinhold!!!
Fred rated: 'Federated, Federated, Federated'...lol
The two people that down voted this purchased the *Dominator* *X-1*
Hubba, hubba, Judge....What a cutie pie. He'd make a great salesman, that's for sure. I love his calming, soft, sexy voice.
I've watched this so many times, it's been my all time favorite movie scene.
Do you know the name of the hard rock song at the end of this clip?
I love how he immediately changes his mind when he sees the pregnant girlfriend not wanting to put a soon-to-become-father and his family in debt.
Like someone else said: the kidnappers were the most decent persons in this movie.
He had human decency.
That was the point!
I love the, "they can bury you in it!"
Poor Judge! He is doing his level desperate best to be a bastard, but he just can't quite swing it. He's just a terminal nice guy!
Awesome! Thanks for the clip - best scenes from this movie. "If you can't afford it..." has been my motto for nearly 25 years -
Judge Reinhold is an awesome salesman. "Dave" from Summer School is perfect as the heavy metal burnout. Great scene!
I love that film, great cast and that scene is very funny. I still am interested in HiFi and find my self using phrases like "We need to go into the big room" and especially the final "bury you" punchline. Never dated. I may modify my will so as to stipulate that I want to be buried in my loudspeakers when I die, though cremation first will be necessary to fit me in
@soundmusiclover I know what you mean. I had this scene in my head for days, and finally decided to look it up. All I could remember was a sales guy upselling to a kid, and then feeling bad when he saw the kid had a pregnant wife/girlfriend.
I have a pair of these myself. ^_^ classic
One of my favourite scenes from one of my favourite movies.
I was around nine when I saw it and it didn't effect my humour in the slightest. 🤣
That slow zoom into the customer's face is hilarious. He's in nirvana.
Judge Reinhold is the best! I liked him as the dad in Santa Clause 3
"FUCKIN' FINNANCE IT!"
this has been on my mind, I'd like to show this to some customers for fun at my car stereo store. This stuck with me even after probably 25 years! This scene as well as one of the outtakes from Boogie Nights where Don Cheadle is describing how he'd upgrade "Amber's" van stereo, with talk about quads, etc.. oh man, toooooo funny!
Don't forget that he can't do the upgrade without getting under the vehicle with his tools to really check it out.
I still use this scene as a line I regularly use in my life..."welcome to the big room"!
I still use "So what if it's as big as a Subaru and costs just as much, when you die, they can bury you in it!"
yeahhhhh!!!! fish hook! electric prong?!!! Stick a needle in my arm!! Raw meat! Alka Seltzer! I wonder who wrote and recorded that???
I saw this movie as a kid in theaters and some of the scenes and lines I can still remember after all these years!
Underrated comedy
0:08 they look like Dennis and Dee. And with how close Sam and Franks mannerisms are, I’d swear this movie was a Sunny in Philadelphia backstory
When the "better angels of our nature" start talking to your soul, it's hard to be a salesman.
😆 I didn’t understand this scene as a kid. Of course, I have since seen the point.
YEAH!! CRANK IT UP!! CRANK IT UP!!!
This is so true with mattresses the ones who advertise the most will always be a rip off
I've allowed myself to let my better half talk me into a more expensive mattress than I wanted to buy exactly one time in my life. It turned out to be a POS that was worn out in less than 5 years. Best mattresses I've bought have been cheap but firm mattresses that I then went and bought a super nice mattress topper for separately. All a pillow top mattress amounts to is a mattress topper being permanently attacked and when they wear out you can't replace them or fix them so the mattress becomes worthless. Whereas if my mattress topper that I bought separately gets deformed I can just go get a new one for a tiny fraction of the cost of a whole new mattress set. Super expensive mattresses are an enormous waste of money that don't last 9 times out of 10.
a true classic
I think I saw Dominator X-10s being sold from a white van.
Dominator MX-10's for life!
true story: I was young and dumb and new in town and this white van pulls up and offers me "over ordered" speakers no questioned asked which are fucking gigantic, and wont be missed if they aren't returned to the warehouse. The guys offers me them cash in hand for as much as I can afford, all the while looking around like we need to keep this super hush and secret. I paid up and they drove me home, unloaded the speakers and handed me a receipt and 2 year guarantee and drove off lol. They really weren't bad as it happens, I had them for years, and didn't even learn it was scam until about 2 years later. haha
@@kirrithkovacs5097 I still use them 30 years later.
One of my first jobs after college was selling home entertainment. Like most places that sold big ticket items on commission the company was full of sleezy tactics they wanted us to use and rip offs like extended warranties and in house financing they wanted us to push. I did pretty well as a salesperson NOT using those tactics by being honest and knowing my product line but they were always riding my ass about warranty and credit card sign ups because I could see what a huge ripoff they were and hated pushing that stuff. I worked there maybe a year until they went out of business. I'd like to think I was this kind of salesperson. Of course d bags like the guy in the Ferrari jacket always thought they knew better and ended up with whatever shit thing was popular at the time.
You sold them in the 80s, right?
@@plawson8577 The early 90s (92 I believe) but close enough....
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 I see. In the glory days of “Showrooming”. I remember those. Mom used to work for Venture back during Autumn 1993. She took me and my then 5 year old baby brother to work one day and I saw firsthand how showrooming was practiced. It was all about commission back then.
The big room!
At least he didn't recommend Bose....
Or Bang & Olufson.
OVERRATED!
Before that he already established trust he doesn't think he's a good salesman but he is
He doesn’t doubt his ability to sell, but he wants to be ruthless. He wants to close big deals consistently and sell something just because he can. It’s a different level.
@soundmusiclover "Durr...im not sure what the salemans motive is throughout it though".
BwaaaaaaaHaaaaaaa!
0:03 Oh I see Give me the Reason By Luther Vandross was featured in the movie Ruthless People.
Sorry about that because I didn't see this movie before.
Watched it cuz of the music video lmao
Does anyone know the song?! Can't find it anywhere
I think it might have been written for the movie and recorded by studio musicians...it may very well not be a full song, but just 30-60 seconds long, created for the scene.
I have 4 15 inch woofers 2 horns 4 8inch woofers 2 8 inch midrange 2 1 inch tweeters 4 inch silk tweeters 4 4 inch woofers with bullets to cool voice coils 15 inch 600 Watt RMS active sub and a 10 inch sub in the Logitech z5500 using a Panasonic hi res mini system source to a dual 31 band EQ running into a Yamaha rxv 659 amp a Onkyo 603 amp and the Logitech z5500 the sound is warm clear and powerfull with tight bass its the closest I will get to the dominator X 10 speakers the sound is so sweet like honey to me I just want to play my stereo as often as possible but I respect my neighbours and play it for a few hours at a time in afternoon and turn it off at sundown 😀
I was always taught that the largest woofer needed was a 12 inch because any base sound it couldn't make was below the register that people could hear it at anyway. With a 15 inch you can feel it but you can't really hear it. The midrange and tweeter set up you have sounds way above average and you mentioned some very high quality brands. Which speaker brand or brands did you get since you didn't happen to mention that?
Why they say "(bleep) yeah and (bleep)ing"?
It sounds bad but we say that when were 'amped' up (excited).
Oh,okay.
can anyone tell me, which band it is? or the song???
This may very well be source music...sometimes a composer is asked to write a short song to be played on a radio for 30 seconds or so. It's less common now, but in the past, you'd have a character turn on a radio and there would be some generic country or rock song that the film's composer knocked out just for the scene.
It’s Luther Vandross give me the reason
What's the name of that song in ruthless people?
If you mean the one in the beginning of this video. It’s “Give me the Reason” by Luther Vandross.
Oh nice song,t-zero!!!!
I've been waiting to see you by Dan Hartman (the song after "Give me the Reason")
Reminds me of Biden saying the price tag of Build Back Build Better is ZERO.
That’s the b****’n part!