I moved from being one of three service advisors at a Ford dealership to being a one man band at a major Peugeot dealership. Was more than a little surprised to find one of the two nineteen year old sales admin girls ran a new company car and was even more surprised when she drove it through the full wall reception window when leaving work one night.The service manager explained that, if anyone asked, I was to say that it had been damaged during the night. Needless to say, she was in a relationship with the area manager; we were taken over four months after I joined and she and her sidekick marched into the dealer principles office to express their displeasure at the changes being made which subsequently meant they were part of the changes as they were sacked on the spot.
I worked in an office where the Sales Director stuck his head round the door and quietly asked "Which is the key on the computer for divide?" It was hard to not burst out laughing. After he was sacked one of the sales engineers complained the Director hadn't used any formulae in his spreadsheets. He had just worked out the numbers with a calculator and typed the results straight into the cells.
Awesome! Well done Barrie. Enjoyed that but annoyed at your boss for trying to take credit for your hard work. Keep these coming - fab to hear these entertaining stories from your past in the car industry.
@@BarrieCrampton bravo Mr Crampton - I appreciate your long-standing and diverse reputation in cars and sales thereof, and these detailed anecdotes are gems! I know you are wary of many current car retail practices/policies especially around EVs, but it's refreshing to discover how you managed to beat and thrive in the car trade with your initiative and intelligence! 🚗 💪
Brilliant Barrie! Please more anicdotal motor trade stories ! Love the way you are keeping it real with the sales figures of current cars but as someone from the traditionally other side of the trade (workshop tech) These stories are golden! Have a great weekend 🍻
Love these stories Barrie. Reminds me of the good old, bad old days, when selling cars used to be fun. Did you ever fill the screen wash bottle in the sales manager's demo with Ribena? I did. It didn't exactly endear me to him very much, but God it was worth it.
bravo Mr Crampton - I appreciate your long-standing and diverse reputation in cars and sales thereof, and these detailed anecdotes are gems! I know you are wary of many current car retail practices/policies especially around EVs, but it's refreshing to uncover how you managed to beat and thrive in the car trade with your initiative and intelligence! 🚗 💪
My neighbour just bought a MachE. Can't believe it. £52,000 they spent!! Just told the guy that'll be worth at least 60% less in a month!! He wasn't happy. True though.
@@JasonKing-m6m Love the username. I can't imagine a 'Mark Caine' novel featuring jaGuar's electric Pink Panther car! Only a V12 would do for our hero.
In this situation: Do the work at home on your own equipment. (Very important). Find a friend who sounds like he knows about computers. (He doesn't need to really, the management won't have a clue.) Set up a limited company with the pair of you as equal shareholders. Get friend to approach Head Office and tell them he has a product that will greatly improve productivity, can he explain it to the Finance Director (NOT the Sales Director, the person who can actually spend money.) Find a way to be chosen to "evaluate" it. Share the proceeds. This is legal. I knew someone who did something very similar though it was a hardware box he designed, it made him a lot of money.
Friend of mine used to be a fast jet pilot. Top Gun. Sky God. Told me that they were frequently reminded that they might be on the end of £Xmillions of training and sitting in a £XXm aircraft, but if Muggins with the fuel bowser does not turn up or if it is empty, going nowhere
Cracking story Barrie and thank you for sharing it, the industry is cut throat as you know through years of experience. I only did a year in the industry in the 90s as a fleet salesman for a Nissan/ Fiat dealership, and without doubt I discovered that every dealership had at least one selfish employee who would use his or her higher pecking order to tread on others. I've since moved away from car sales but have discovered those selfish employees in many other workplaces. Age and experience arm you well though 👍
As a mechanic, usually all the credit for quality repair and diagnostic ability is stolen by the shop, service writer or the shop owner. But without the talented individual that fixed your vehicle correctly and in a timely manner the auto business would be in total shambles.
If albums were cars, and cars were albums.... It would be a '97 BMW 745 L Riding on 'wrong'* 2002 alpina rims, limo tints, smoked in, lenses smoked out, blue smoke on the 'Gas ⛽, and a smell of grass off it! 😄 usually in blue, but smell of green 😉 *wrong- Both kinds of wrong, ie, NOT CORRECT and they just LOOK wrong but it fits for 'da hood, innit...
The sad thing is that AI could generate the same excel fx coding in the fraction of the time nowadays. Kids are going to lose the ability to study from actual books soon..
@@BarrieCrampton Thanks Barrie, but it's just occurred to me your a pioneer.. psychic.. you identified an efficiency, spent hours on development only for it to depreciate heavily on resell... Sounds familiar somehow?
I moved from being one of three service advisors at a Ford dealership to being a one man band at a major Peugeot dealership. Was more than a little surprised to find one of the two nineteen year old sales admin girls ran a new company car and was even more surprised when she drove it through the full wall reception window when leaving work one night.The service manager explained that, if anyone asked, I was to say that it had been damaged during the night. Needless to say, she was in a relationship with the area manager; we were taken over four months after I joined and she and her sidekick marched into the dealer principles office to express their displeasure at the changes being made which subsequently meant they were part of the changes as they were sacked on the spot.
I worked in an office where the Sales Director stuck his head round the door and quietly asked "Which is the key on the computer for divide?" It was hard to not burst out laughing. After he was sacked one of the sales engineers complained the Director hadn't used any formulae in his spreadsheets. He had just worked out the numbers with a calculator and typed the results straight into the cells.
Awesome! Well done Barrie. Enjoyed that but annoyed at your boss for trying to take credit for your hard work. Keep these coming - fab to hear these entertaining stories from your past in the car industry.
Will do, I have a few
@@BarrieCrampton bravo Mr Crampton - I appreciate your long-standing and diverse reputation in cars and sales thereof, and these detailed anecdotes are gems! I know you are wary of many current car retail practices/policies especially around EVs, but it's refreshing to discover how you managed to beat and thrive in the car trade with your initiative and intelligence! 🚗 💪
Brilliant Barrie! Please more anicdotal motor trade stories ! Love the way you are keeping it real with the sales figures of current cars but as someone from the traditionally other side of the trade (workshop tech) These stories are golden! Have a great weekend 🍻
@@andyoram5815 thank you
Love these stories Barrie. Reminds me of the good old, bad old days, when selling cars used to be fun. Did you ever fill the screen wash bottle in the sales manager's demo with Ribena? I did. It didn't exactly endear me to him very much, but God it was worth it.
Lol
bravo Mr Crampton - I appreciate your long-standing and diverse reputation in cars and sales thereof, and these detailed anecdotes are gems! I know you are wary of many current car retail practices/policies especially around EVs, but it's refreshing to uncover how you managed to beat and thrive in the car trade with your initiative and intelligence! 🚗 💪
Thank you kindly
My neighbour just bought a MachE. Can't believe it. £52,000 they spent!! Just told the guy that'll be worth at least 60% less in a month!! He wasn't happy. True though.
Maybe he can get a better price by being a fool twice and trading it in for ... a Cybertruck...
You should have told him that for £30k, he could have had a Jaguar i-Pace.
@ I think.. Jags only come in pink now.... so some compromise might be needed..
@@JasonKing-m6m Love the username. I can't imagine a 'Mark Caine' novel featuring jaGuar's electric Pink Panther car! Only a V12 would do for our hero.
@ Absolutely...
Worked for an engineering company as a technician and did almost exactly the same thing, still proud of what we learned and were able to implement
Great
Great story telling.
Astro turf, the super grass....😂
Thanks for watching, and taking the time to comment
In this situation:
Do the work at home on your own equipment. (Very important).
Find a friend who sounds like he knows about computers. (He doesn't need to really, the management won't have a clue.)
Set up a limited company with the pair of you as equal shareholders.
Get friend to approach Head Office and tell them he has a product that will greatly improve productivity, can he explain it to the Finance Director (NOT the Sales Director, the person who can actually spend money.)
Find a way to be chosen to "evaluate" it.
Share the proceeds.
This is legal.
I knew someone who did something very similar though it was a hardware box he designed, it made him a lot of money.
Friend of mine used to be a fast jet pilot. Top Gun. Sky God.
Told me that they were frequently reminded that they might be on the end of £Xmillions of training and sitting in a £XXm aircraft, but if Muggins with the fuel bowser does not turn up or if it is empty, going nowhere
Cracking story Barrie and thank you for sharing it, the industry is cut throat as you know through years of experience. I only did a year in the industry in the 90s as a fleet salesman for a Nissan/ Fiat dealership, and without doubt I discovered that every dealership had at least one selfish employee who would use his or her higher pecking order to tread on others. I've since moved away from car sales but have discovered those selfish employees in many other workplaces. Age and experience arm you well though 👍
Thanks for watching
Good evening, Baz. Hope you're enjoying your 'Retirement ' 👍🫶
I am! its different
GREAT stories
As a mechanic, usually all the credit for quality repair and diagnostic ability is stolen by the shop, service writer or the shop owner. But without the talented individual that fixed your vehicle correctly and in a timely manner the auto business would be in total shambles.
True
*Still **_Low Volume_** Compared to other RUclips Channels - get it sorted !*
I’ve only just now discovered your channel Barry. Do you have any funny stories please? Regards to everyone, Paul (Norwich)
Love your videos. The tone is like a speech given at the funeral of the motor trade, following its brutal murder the woke politicians.
That’s what I was going for
It's the story of every sales job . even the Police suffer from it . Bureaucrats need to keep tabs on everybody .
Outta not 'out of' lol
@@DaleSteel I know I can’t get my head around the pronunciation
Can tell you never went to Eton...
"Straight Outta Crampton"
Stick with it, bloody awesome name!!
💿 the Album aint bad either TBH... 📻
I will be sure to listen
If albums were cars, and cars were albums....
It would be a '97 BMW 745 L Riding on 'wrong'* 2002 alpina rims, limo tints, smoked in, lenses smoked out, blue smoke on the 'Gas ⛽, and a smell of grass off it! 😄 usually in blue, but smell of green 😉
*wrong- Both kinds of wrong, ie, NOT CORRECT and they just LOOK wrong
but it fits for 'da hood, innit...
Straight out of Crampton is a great title, tho I'm not into rap crap, I enjoy your videos, interesting late evening viewing
Cheers
Astro turf 😁😁👍👍
Yep
Astro Turf 😂
So you could have become a software millionaire as well as an automotive one? 🤔
Rupees maybe 😂
The sad thing is that AI could generate the same excel fx coding in the fraction of the time nowadays. Kids are going to lose the ability to study from actual books soon..
@Andy-e8n7g 😂
@@BarrieCrampton Thanks Barrie, but it's just occurred to me your a pioneer.. psychic.. you identified an efficiency, spent hours on development only for it to depreciate heavily on resell... Sounds familiar somehow?