Dealership/Car Sales Person stigma is still alive and well. Be prepared to face brutal/frequent and extremely rude defensive customers on a daily basis.
Long LONG hours that only get worse when you move into the internet sales team
Turnover is extremely high, so it's difficult to get to know co-workers. I was lucky, my store had the lowest turnover of 15 stores. Still very high, during training there were 25 brand new people, by the end of the year, I was the only one left, everyone else quit.
Winter (especially where it snows) is when nobody buys cars. Seriously, none of us sold a single car in February. BE PREPARED TO NOT MAKE MONEY IN WINTER
"Old School" approach to marketing and sales process.
Management will resort to lying to its employees if you're the type of person who's "too honest to customers". They'd tell me things all the time like "oh that doesn't matter" or "you don't need to worry about the details" They would intentionally withhold the truth from me so I didn't have to "lie to my customer" except I was!!!! I was furious and very hurt when after a year and countless 12 hour days with these people that they would lie to me and my customers in order to make a sale.
I could go on and on. to sum it up.
If you LOVE LOVE LOVE sales, go for it!
If you LOVE LOVE LOVE an extreme challenge, go for it!
If you literally cannot find any other job, go for it!
If you have skin made of steel, go for it!
If you can deal with BS for 5 years before you get put on the internet team (btw internet team = more leads = more potential sales = more sales = more money) then go for it.
If you can deal with seeing the worst get brought out in people every day for 60 plus hours a week, go for it!
