Takes all sorts to make a world and you can't generalise accurately, but certainly my experience of young smart car salesmen is that they are very often astonishingly ignorant, arrogant, unpleasant and stupid. One wonders how they can have got their jobs.
Perhaps this is just a grim indictment of the average car buyer. These johnnies may be little carphounds without a decent thought in their heads but they can 'sell', wind your poor old mum and dad round their little fingers and get them to pay top dollar for any old garbage. Confronted with a rational shopper though they are out of their depth.
I once accompanied an old Jamaican friend who didn't know much about cars when he was looking at a Triumph 1500, Dolomite shape, a nice little car with overdrive and in very fair nick at a decent price. The salesman was an old motor trader, English, extremely civil and unpushy. I like to think our bell boy is something like that when flogging an old motor. I drove it around with both of them in the car, told my friend it seemed pretty good, and he bought it and kept it for years. He had a deep-seated prejudice against front wheel drive and didn't trust transverse engines, but of course his next car had both.
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