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The absolute worst are car salesmen. I don't know how they are in Oz, but the ones here are bottom feeders. On two seperate occasions, I have walked into a dealer ready to buy, only to have the sales staff change my mind.

I will come from the sales staff side.
I use to work in an auto pro on weekends. I had a guy come in for a set of points for what i cat remember. So he handed me the points & told me what they where out of. I looked them up & went & got them off the shelf & checked them against the old ones. I noticed the old ones had a big hole through the contacts so i advised him that he should buy a condencor so his points would last longer. He then said to me. Do you no what a condencr does? I said yes. He said Well you obviously dont! He then started crapin on about attoms & molycules (if thats how you spell it) & when they react & what the condencor does when this happens & kept going in for about 15mins about it. He didnt buy the condencor. Then the week later i was working & he brought the points i sold him threw them at me . He said that they where faulty & he wasnt happy. I said you have a condencor problem. So he craped on for another 10 mins about how a condencor worked. Well this time he walked out yelling & screaming cos I wouldnt replace his 5 dollar points under waranty. About 2 hours later he was back ordering a set of points & condencor looking very embarreced.
I found out later he was some science expert that had gone crazy & was in & out of mental hospitals.

He actually threw em at you ahahha? Wow , how did you hold back from knocking him in the face?

back when i was gettin tyres for me ute, there was a group of kids in a commodore there.. they rocked up a little after me, stopped just outside the workshop door with the music going flat out... talks to the bloke, opens the boot from inside the car, waits for a new tyre to be fitted, opened the boot from inside the car again, and drove off, never getting out of the car...

Best customers drive straight into the workshop.
Even better customers drive straight in and beep their horn to notify you of their presence.
Even more better customers drive half into the workshop and stop right inline with the buzzer and look around pretending that they dont know they are setting the buzzer off.
The ultimate customers tell you how to fix their car and that it will only take 2 minutes " its just a loose wire"

The joy to be had when seeing their faces when you give them the invoice.

Can you tell I dislike many customers with a passion.
Thank God I dont deal with any nowdays 7 - 4.

I have a good one from the selling side of the parts counter, A few years ago a guy comes in to buy some bits for his Honda, I look up the numbers and tell him how much he then syas that he is from Testra and what discount does he get, My first thought was f uck all and f uck off.
So I say to him we can do a deal here I have just got my phonebill and if you can knock a bit of the top then so can I, he said I cant do that and neither can I mate.
All I can say after dealing with people for a lot of years is be reasonable in your expectations and if your not happy go somewhere else.
Ade

The story I told about staff not knowing about what they sell annoys me but I don't get angry with them because it could just be poor training. What I hate is when you get treated like a d**khead. When I was looking at buying a new car I narrowed it down to the Accord Euro, Mazda 6 or Mazda SP23. I organised a test drive of each & drove the mazdas 1st. When I said to the salesman that the ride seemed harsh & that there was a lot of road noise, he told me it was because they put very high pressure in the tyres when they import them so they don't go down. I didn't buy a mazda.

im with you on the car salesmen.. i considered trading my dunnydore ute for a brand new proton ute.

had a look at the one in the showroom... it had a 2003 biuld date (this was in 2005).. i said why 03 build date... he says theyre all like that.. i say where have they been for the last two years.. he says "actually i really dont know"

anyway i ask what do u get for $18,000
basically... a single cam four cylinder, drum rear brakes, no abs, no airbag, not even a ute tarp.. and its 2 years old!

he offered me $11,000 trade in on my ute...

i sold it 3 weeks later for $15,000 no reg

I can tell you where the Jumbuck ute was for roughly 2 years. Like all jumbucks it was at PrixCar in Minto NSW. Every jumbuck came from the factory in Malaysia with panel damage and poor quality paint. Paint where you could still see primer in parts where the paint didnt cover. Every jumbuck went through PrixCars panel shop with atleast half the car being repaired and freshly painted.
The build date doest mean much really when it comes to sales date. In the few months that I worked at PrixCar in 2004, I worked on BMW's. BMW's were comig in from BMW's germany and south africa factories Build date 2002. When they were ready to leave, they had their compliance plates dated and attached. Brand new car built in 2002 but complianced 2004.
2001 Z3's sat in the lot with under 20ks, most of the k's from being driven at PrixCar. If an order came in today for a Z3 that colour it will go out complianced 11/05 as a brand new 2001 Z3
Its just the way the new car industry is when dealing with production, country of manufacture and number of sales demand.

Jumbucks are a piece of crap though.

Gee, lads, couldn't we limit it to Salesman wankers? You make it sound like there's wankers running about all over the place.