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I’m not a librarian, but my friends have realized I won’t die on a hill unless I can prove I’m right with citations. If I’m not super sure I’ll qualify things with “if I recall correctly” or “I’m pretty sure” while actively looking the thing up, and will say “nope sorry I was wrong/only partially correct, here’s the context I was missing”
I can now lie to them and, as long as I’m confident about it, have them 100% believe me. I wouldn’t do that, ofc, or I world have already and they wouldn’t be so trusting, but I could.
When I was in sales, I would tell my customers not to just believe me and buy immediately. They should go home, look up what I'm telling them, and then come back after verifying if I was offering the best product at a good price, because I was a salesman and you should never trust someone in sales.
Of course, that made them instantly trust me immensely, and they'd insist on buying on the spot because they wanted honest Chilie to get the commission.
What they should have done is gone home and looked things up. I was a salesman and I shouldn't have been trusted.
So.. were you generally offering it at a good price? Or did your career rely on the fact that they didn't check
Not a salesman personally but I was raised by one. I think he tried to get as good a deal for customers as he reasonably could, but the thing that’s always stuck with me is when he told me: “People don’t buy from me because I have the best deals. People buy from me to buy from me.”
Some salesmen may offer good or bad deals, but ultimately what they’re selling is themselves, their personality, their companionship to some degree. My dad could talk to anyone and build a relationship within an hour. It’s who he was, and he leveraged it to make a lot of money because his customers liked talking to him.
Buying through a commissioned salesman will likely always be at least a few percentage points more expensive than using an online portal, but there are a lot of people who will feel like it’s worth it if the salesman is doing their job right.