He is... this may be one of those posts where the title is 'Delete', or 'Never Mind' and we all know what comes next...
... like I said, he's got a sense of humor.
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Talked into buying?
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He is... this may be one of those posts where the title is 'Delete', or 'Never Mind' and we all know what comes next...
... like I said, he's got a sense of humor.
I can’t imagine being talked into buying a bass I didn’t want in the first place.
If you’re at risk of this, stay away from music stores.
If you’re at risk of this, stay away from music stores.
Somehow Rumbledore has developed a scientific method for making the front page of talkbass with every post. The worst part is I'm not sure if I've even once known exactly what he was talking about.
Is Rumbledore Nobody? I want to believe.
Selling is about influencing to cause the transaction to occur.
"Ethical" sales practices, when they exist, are usually enforced, not voluntarily practiced. Hard sales, and manipulation unfortunately rule the marketplace. Just knowing that and accepting that will make it less effective against you.
If you find this repugnant, and many kind hearted authentic people do, then sales is probably not a good vocation for you.
-Of course I have no real idea if I'm answering the question, because the OP is a bit cryptic. I'm answering based on the assumption that you are asking about pressure sales vs passive sales.
"Ethical" sales practices, when they exist, are usually enforced, not voluntarily practiced. Hard sales, and manipulation unfortunately rule the marketplace. Just knowing that and accepting that will make it less effective against you.
If you find this repugnant, and many kind hearted authentic people do, then sales is probably not a good vocation for you.
-Of course I have no real idea if I'm answering the question, because the OP is a bit cryptic. I'm answering based on the assumption that you are asking about pressure sales vs passive sales.
I've only encountered a very few of them, but good salesmen with good product are ok by me - just wish there were more of them out there!
A true sales professional would not try to talk anyone into buying anything. I personally hate the idea of being "talked into" buying anything.
That said, I'm very good at talking myself into buying bass gear, and proud of it.
I was a fantastic salesman when it came to musical gear. I never talked anyone into anything. But I was a champ at guiding the conversation in a direction that helped my customers talk themselves into buying what I was selling.
I sold a ton of pianos. Usually dad would come in looking for one for his daughter to take piano on. I would give him some stats and figures. (That's what dads want.) But then I would encourage him to bring the wife in because this kind of purchase is too large to make without both of them involved.
When she got there, she would almost always have the kid with her. I would sit the kid down and teach him/her a song. They would freak out (in a good way) because they had just learned a real song.
While they were practicing, I would talk to mom. I would simply telk her stories avout sitting around the piano at my grandmother's house singing Christmas carols (which actually did happen). And I would just tell her that, for me, a piano just adds "warmth" to a home.
Between memories of grandma's house and her kid actually playing a song, that piano was SOLD. And I never said "You should..." or "Don't you want.....".
I would sit a play a few chords while the kid played melody. Mom n dad were a few feet away talking and watching me and the kid laughing it up.
Dad would walk up and say "We'll take it if you throw in delivery." Of course, I threw in delivery.
It worked pretty much every time.
Sounds like a Groucho Marx joke opening. What's the punchline?
"Go bite raw moose lung" was a favorite trouble-avoiding-but-still-insulting insult of mine as a teen.
I've spent most of my adult life alone. Is it really ethical to just let them be alone? Hmmmmmm?
I spent a number of years in sales myself. One important thing I learned early in my career was how to ask the customer a few pertinent questions and shut up and listen to what they have to tell you. A true sales professional is the one who does the least amount of talking.
OK, I don't really need a piano but you sold me, just reading that post.
Damn, you're good
The only time I was talked into buying a bass was by the bass itself (I was shopping for amps at the time). This was a genuine dialog and the bass was quite adamant that I take it home with me. I did and now I'm stuck with it.
A nine-plus pound kitchen-table Frankenfretless, but this bass has a bloom after the plucked note that I've encountered on no other fretless (they all have mwaah, but none have a swell and bloom like this one does). It has noticeable dead spots at frets 4-6 on the G, but in spite of that I'm keeping it. It's too special to let go.
A nine-plus pound kitchen-table Frankenfretless, but this bass has a bloom after the plucked note that I've encountered on no other fretless (they all have mwaah, but none have a swell and bloom like this one does). It has noticeable dead spots at frets 4-6 on the G, but in spite of that I'm keeping it. It's too special to let go.
