8 Types of Car Buyer Personalities in Trinidad & Tobago

**DISCLAIMER**
This post is not meant to be taken seriously. It’s lighthearted. Laugh a lil, it’s good for you! Enjoy.

Getting a good deal on a new car in Trinidad and Tobago can depend a lot on you!

How? Think about it, no sales rep wants to deal with a buyer who ‘seems to know it all’ or whose plan is to ask every question possible in the book.

Do a good enough job at aggravating the sales rep and there goes your discount … good for the sales rep … bad for you.

But we want to help, here are some types of buyers you DON’T want to be.

1.The Internet Overload Shopper:
The Internet Overload Shopper is an “authority” on all things automobile, from Gas mileage to engine specs to what’s available in every other market as far as Timbuktu. In Trinidad, we call them a ‘smart man’.
He brings this “knowledge” that he’s found on the internet to the rep hoping to find the car he’s built on buildacar.com, only to be disappointed.

2. The Hopper Shopper:
The Hopper Shopper hops from rep to rep. He feels he will get a better deal from one over the next and chooses to ignore that reps work on commission. He almost always fails to mention that he previously dealt with a particular rep.

3. The Connected Shopper:
The Connected Shopper announces his “connections” to various people from directors, to managers to licensing officers. He usually feels he can get a better price or hasten the licensing process or get a special registration number because of these connections.

4. The SandPaper Shopper:
The SandPaper Shopper thinks they can buy a car the same way they will haggle over the price of dasheen in the market. They are abrasive like Sandpaper in trying to get a deal on everything, including mandatory fees paid to licensing office.
Usually, the SandPaper buyer is clueless as to current car prices.

Last week we looked at the ‘smart man’ shopper, the shopper that hops from rep to rep, the shopper that thinks ‘having connections’ will hasten the process and the shopper that somehow thinks shopping in the market and in the showroom are one and the same.

This week, the fun continues …

**DISCLAIMER**
This post is not meant to be taken seriously. It’s lighthearted. Laugh a lil, it’s good for you! Enjoy.

5. The Rushian Shopper:
The Rushian shopper likes to appear at the showroom unannounced, pick out a car, test-drive it and try to get a bank approval all in the same day. All in a Rush.

6. The Facebook Shopper:
The Facebook Shopper has the manners of a rough lemon. He messages at ungodly hours and expects immediate response. Failing that, he will call the rep – at ungodly hours. He hardly ever uses punctuation or takes the time to read posts thoroughly. If he had, he would have realized the answer to his questions is stated in the text.

7. The Delusional Shopper:
The Delusional Shopper oftentimes can’t afford a new car because of salary range, having existing loans or job tenure. Yet he ignores all of that and consumes large amounts of the sales rep’s time.

8. The Work to Own Shopper:
The Work to Own Shopper sees the car ads for $2500/ mth and sees that alone. He can make that payment but ignores the other factors like the cost of the loan, deposit, insurance and even overall price of the car.

Hopefully, you’re none of the above … or are you?