Working as a car salesman?

[BadMojo]

I'm curious if anyone here works (or has worked) as a salesperson at a dealership.

Is the pay competitive? How much of your take home pay was from commission? Were the benefits good? Did it really suck?

I'm looking at some kind of career move, and working at a dealership seems like it might be interesting.

[Bubba1]

Jayson Reilford might be a good source to chat to about this topic. I worked at a dealership many summers during HS and college, but not as a salesman. From the car salesmen I know, it is not an easy job. But it can be very lucrative and rewarding if you're good at relationship-building/negotiating and have patience/persistence and enjoy cars. But the hours are long, and you'll find that cars don't always sell themselves (even Nissans) so there's plenty of stress to produce.

Good luck.

[PalmerWMD]

Check out this forum.Jayson used to be a car salesman.

http://www.nissaninfiniticlub....d=105

Fred...

[Movingviolation240]

I made 25% of gross profit, average gross was $1800 so average commission was around 450 per car sold. I averaged 3 a week at a smaller city in midwest indiana, one of them useually fell through on financing so that left 2 a week. If you didn't sell anything you got minimum wadge for 40 hrs a week. BUT let's say you only sold 600 worth of cars in 2 weeks, but your minimum wadge was 800, they would pay you 800 for the pay period but the extra 200 would come out of your next commission check (or be added to your next paycheck as 'money owed').

I worked like 60+ hours a week, out in the hot sun and rain, dealing with people who sucked, some were cool. You always have a quota hanging over your head and your job has no security. They can replace you any time they want if you stop selling.

But it's good money for a highschool kid (I was 18 when I started selling) and it's a lot of fun for a short term job to make some money.

Paul