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Last week I went on a business trip to Singapore.I rarely (and a lot of people) use cash as a payment mode here in Bangalore as cards, Paytm or BHIM works almost everywhere. I never thought this would be a problem in such a technologically advanced country like Singapore.Hence I had minimum cash, as I thought I would do a cash withdrawal or make payments through the card at Singapore whenever required, and this has never been a problem for me in my past trips.I was carrying an HDFC platinum “international” card - Biggest Regret of my life.I landed at Changi airport and went straight to a Lunch meeting. The meeting went well, but at the time of payment, to my horror, my card got declined.We tried a few times but the result was still the same.I flushed out of embarrassment and had to request my client to pay for the same.After the meeting, I tried to withdraw cash, still the same. I was sure there was something wrong with my card. I signNowed out to a recently assigned “Relationship Manager” from HDFC and hoped that he would do something to fix it for me. And this was his reaction:I mentioned it to him that this is urgent, and he just brushed off saying “Call customer care”, with utter disregard for the situation I was in. This was not the first time he did that, he would always redirect me to either to Customer Care or Branch.So I logged in to my account, saw that they have suddenly deactivated my card, without any information and there was no option on the portal for me to request for its activation or even view any of the card details.This is the screenshot of the further conversation, which is the last conversation I had with him and he just ignores the issue.By this time I knew he wouldn’t help. I signNowed out to my branch manager through my colleague back in India and here is how he helped me:Oh, I mean how he ignored my issues.By now I knew these guys were never going to help me. I went on to Twitter for help.I thought - “Quick response, I would get this resolved asap”,No, I was wrong.They recorded my issue, issued me a ticket number and sent me a mail, the next day that issue will be resolved “within 5 working days”.5 Working Days, Imagine being stuck in a country with no connections and they have the audacity of saying it will take 5 working days!I lost all hope in HDFC by this time. I begged for friend's card for transactions and managed to somehow spend the next 2 days in Singapore and came back on 26th, where to my surprise the card started working as soon as I landed.Imagine a situation where a person is stuck without access to money in a foreign country and one of the best banks (According to them) in the country leaves you hanging, with utter disregard of the gravity of the situation.The whole support system of HDFC is the same, be it customer “care”, “relationship manager”, or even the branch manager.So here is on the promise they did keep. After 5 days, I receive this mail.“The Risk team had temporarily blocked the card due to suspect fraud. This was done for your safety”.And they took the issue up with the risk team and they removed the block. Did they?My guess: the system which is obviously faulty in design, blocked my card, with no way to reactivate it.As soon as I landed and used my card at a domestic merchant, the block was automatically lifted. So they did nothing to address the issue.And they expect me to “bear with them” for 5 days in a foreign country with no money.First: The complaint was urgent, I was abroad and HDFC disabled the card. But their resolution doesn't look like it was urgent. The card automatically started working as soon as I landed back in India. I had no cash, had to beg for friend's card for transactions.Second: The card is "International" for a reason. So that I don't have to take HDFC’s "permission" or "notify" their "risk team" every time I go abroad.Third: If it was disabled, where is the notification for the same? or where is the option to enable it back ? or why wasn’t it taken up on priority?Fourth: Their relationship managers and bank managers are of no use. They did nothing, absolutely nothing even though they were the first ones I signNowed out to.I have been banking with HDFC for past 6 years, with 2 accounts, I guess you should also just disable both accounts so that I can transfer the banking to some other "better" bank and have a better experience.HDFC already is infamous for faulty transactions and unjustifiable transactions and this was my last straw with them.Time to move to some other bank. Any suggestions?

This is a great question.Consumer Reports doesn’t know how to measure a Tesla. And they are the main source of opinion that Teslas have not been reliable. It’s an interesting conundrum for that magazine. They are deeply embedded in the world of 20th century internal-combustion-engine-plus-a-complicated-transmission cars. They have deluxe and well established testing standards to allow side by side comparisons of cars in particular classes.A Tesla, on the inside, more closely resembles a mash up of a an Apple MacBook and a toaster, than it does a complex 20th century car. On one hand, measuring a Tesla using their 20th century metrics, actually broke their entire rating system.Tesla P85D Broke Consumer Reports' Rating SystemOn the other hand, they view “reliability” as the need to do literally anything to the car. Because on 20th century cars, the service process is long and horrible and inconvenient. What people what to know from Consumer Reports is, how often will I be subjected to a service process that is long, horrible and inconvenient.Teslas have a couple of design issues that have to be dealt with almost 100% of the time. The biggest being the door handles.Here’s how the issue is dealt with in about 95% of the cases.Tesla - “thank you for calling Tesla service”Owner - “My door handle isn’t working”Tesla - “We’ll send someone out to take care of that for you. Would you prefer the Service Ranger come by your work or home address?”A second issue that needed a mass-handling was portion of the earlier motors that made more noise than Tesla wanted them to make. Instead of making each motor make less noise, they swapped the motors - because…let’s face it…they can. Swapping the motor that is the size of a watermelon is way different than taking an internal combustion engine off of its transmission and removing it from the car. The latter is a feat of marvel. The former is an hour long “meh - that was easy”. Here’s what it sounded like when a customer called with the milling noise.Tesla - “thank you for calling Tesla Service…”Owner - “I think my car is making the milling noise”.Tesla - “We’ll take care of that for you. We’ll drop off another Tesla as a loaner car for you to drive while we trailer your car to our service center and fix it at no cost to you. Would you like us to drop off your loaner car at work or at home?And getting the owner’s car back was an equally NOT inconvenient reverse of the first.I’ve personally been through both situations. Neither of them was inconvenient or horrible. In fact, I didn’t even know my car was making the noise. Tesla emailed ME! And told me my car was reporting higher than allowed NVH (noise, vibration and harshness). I didn’t even notice. That’s how unremarkable it was. They came to my work, picked up my car, gave me another Model S to use while they swapped my motor, and trailered my car back to my office when it was done.Consumer Reports doesn’t know how to manage that. They don’t know how to measure it. They are in existence to protect buyers from things that are horrible, and in the 20th century car-world, that’s service.Tesla Owners report that the door handle stopped working. Almost all owners. Consumer Reports deems that as unreliable. It’s not. It’s not even inconvenient. But in the world of 20th century cars, that would mean bringing it in in the morning, going through a process with the service adviser, getting parts, having it fixed, you getting rental car, or having your spouse take you to work, or taking the shuttle, then getting a ride back to the dealership later that afternoon, filling out the warranty paperwork, getting your keys from some other window at the end of some other line, and then taking your car home. Tesla is not that. It’s the opposite of that. So the word “reliable” isn’t equal. And THAT’s the problem.Define “reliable”. Is it “not-inconvenient”? If that’s what it is, then Teslas have ALWAYS been reliable.If it means “nothing goes wrong…”, then the answer is ‘yes’, they are now ‘more-reliable’ than they were in the early years.Door handles still stop working. In warranty, it’s a free repair. Out of warranty it’s $146. And it’s done at your home or office as long as you are one of the 95/100 whom live in Ranger territory.Motors - that’s all sorted out. All of the motors are the Q series motors that are rated by Tesla to last 1,000,000 miles.The panoramic sunroofs leak sometimes. This is the nature of pano sunroofs. Regardless of the brand.Teslas have some fit and finish issues. Depending on why someone bought the car in the first place, this can be anywhere from “meh…whatever…” to “totally unacceptable, fix it or I refuse delivery”. It is what it is.I hope that helps clear the issue a little bit? If you have more specific questions, please don’t hesitate to post in the comments and I’ll answer quickly.

This occurred with me. I bought a new 2003 VW Jetta, and wrote on the contract that if the car had the dealers name on it, as a decal or emblem attached to the car that I would not take the car. The dealer agent signed the contract. A few days later I came to take delivery of the car, and there was a dealer emblem on the trunk lid. I pointed it out to the salesman who was rolling out the car and said that I’m not taking this car. He said why, so I pointed to the emblem, and to the note in the contract. He said that they never put that in the contract, so I said go get your copy. He brought back the sales manager, who told me that they couldn’t accept the contract note because it wasn’t printed in the contract. I pointed out that the business agent signed it, so it was valid, and that I was leaving. He said I can’t do that, you bought the car and you will have to pay for it. I suggested that they call their lawyer, as I would not take the car.Finally, they asked why I was so upset, because I could take off the emblem and the decal. I said that wouldn’t work because removing the emblem would leave a hole in the trunk lid. They said that they would “fix” it. I said I’m not buying a new car with a “fix.” I went home without the car, and called my lawyer. After he told me I was silly to make such a demand, as it didn’t change the value of the car, I told him that I detested “dealer” promos on my car. I would have removed a decal or emblem that was glued on, but not with a hole in the trunk lid. He agreed that the dealer would protest that the “note” in the contract was not valid, as the contract stated that no changes could be made in the contract. But he said that since the dealer signed the contract we could push the issue, since they could resell the car if they wanted to as a new car.Finally, the dealer called me back, and said that they had switched the trunk lid from another car that had just come in of the same color, but had no emblem on the lid. So I could come and get the car without an emblem. They also removed the glued on emblem as well. They even took off the dealer frame around the license plate.I went and took delivery of the car. I still have it.But I now notice that NO dealer seems to use emblems held on with holes, and they all seem to use decals and glued on emblems. So it seems I was not the only one who objected to the practice, and I’m guessing that drilling holes in new cars was just not a good practice. They do this so they can wholesale to other dealers which is an industry standard.But as to your question, it is quite likely that all sales contracts specify that no changes can be made as written changes to a contract even if it is signed, and so it is very unlikely that you could be successful in rejecting the delivery. You could probably get them to remove the emblems, since they are no longer using permanent emblems.

I had to get out my Benchmade bali to help me visualize what could be broken. There aren't very many parts which might “break” on a BM balisong:Is your knife truly broken? Or is the problem something like a simple hinge alignment, a loose pivot pin, or maybe your latch isn't functioning? These are problems you might be able to remedy at home if you had the proper tools. Chances are, you won't find any wrenches in your home tool chest small enough to fit those uniquely shaped heads which Benchmade uses. Their knives are custom machined.All of my BM knives require a different size and shape wrench in order to adjust the tension. Even the individual balisong models reqire a different wrench.For this job, the proper tool can be found in the Benchmade Bluebox.The Bluebox contains all the tools you need to adjust all of your Benchmade knives and is available on their official website.Other tools won't work as effectively. There are simply not the right size.Bluebox. Photo from the official Benchmade website.If you aren't comfortable with the repair, can't afford to invest in the kit, or the repair is more advanced than a simple adjustment, you'll need to send your knife in to the company in order to retain the lifetime warranty.Benchmade has excellent customer service. Their knives come with a lifetime warranty as well as LifeSharp service, which means they will sharpen your blade to a razor-sharp edge, lubricate, and inspect your knife and ship it back free of charge for life.You simply need to send in your postage insured knife (including the work order form) and have some patience.Turnaround time can be frustrating. I have waited a month for a couple of my knives to be repaired, but it was worth it. My knives always come back with a razor-sharp edge, lubed and clean as a whistle in tip-top shape.I once asked them to sharpen my knife and change out the scales as I wanted to change the color. They not only included my old scales, but the new ones free of charge. Another time, I wanted to change out my pocket clip style and they simply mailed the new ones to me, without me having to mail in my knives. I have had nothing but good experiences with their customer service department.If your bali has a broken blade, I'm afraid the warranty would be void. Too many people mistreat their knives and use them as prybars.To have the professionals sharpen and repair your balisong, mail it (insured) to this address:Attn: Product Services300 Beavercreek RdOregon City, OR 97045Download and fill out this form to include in your package:https://www.benchmade.com/media/...Happy flipping, and watch those knuckles!

I live in Germany. I got an invite to the Quora partner program the day I landed in USA for a business trip. So from what I understand, irrespective of the number of views on your answers, there is some additional eligibility criteria for you to even get an email invite.If you read the terms of service, point 1 states:Eligibility. You must be located in the United States to participate in this Program. If you are a Quora employee, you are eligible to participate and earn up to a maximum of $200 USD a month. You also agree to be bound by the Platform Terms (https://www.quora.com/about/tos) as a condition of participation.Again, if you check the FAQ section:How can other people I know .participate?The program is invite-only at this time, but we intend to open it up to more people as time goes on.So my guess is that Quora is currently targeting people based out of USA, who are active on Quora, may or may not be answering questions frequently ( I have not answered questions frequently in the past year or so) and have a certain number of consistent answer views.Edit 1: Thanks to @Anita Scotch, I got to know that the Quora partner program is now available for other countries too. Copying Anuta’s comment here:If you reside in one of the Countries, The Quora Partner Program is active in, you are eligible to participate in the program.” ( I read more will be added, at some point, but here are the countries, currently eligible at this writing,) U.S., Japan, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Italy and Australia.11/14/2018Edit 2 : Here is the latest list of countries with 3 new additions eligible for the Quora Partner program:U.S., Japan, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Australia, Indonesia, India and Brazil.Thanks to Monoswita Rez for informing me about this update.

The Ultimate Guide To Increasing SalesThe Blueprint for increasing sales, from first hand experience in a high ticket item market.What is the best way to sell fifteen cars a month?How to sell 15 cars a month? Back in 2006, I used to sell 23 a month. I can help. Maybe. Who knows.What I would suggest?Know your client. Their lifestyle. What they do for fun. Where they went on vacation. Then utilize heavy follow up.Keep track of your 4-3-2-1 process. Understand everything about your product. Follow the ten steps to a sale. Use a SPACED outline when selling your vehicle.This works basically in any industry. All you have to do is modify some of the steps. E.G. a realtor would show an open house as opposed to doing a test drive.1. Meet and Greet.Your client will know whether they like you or not within the first forty five seconds. Do this extremely well. Don’t lack in any way whatsoever.Example: Hello, welcome to XYZ dealership, my name is Leonard, and you are? Shake hand firmly. How may I help you today?2. Sell yourself.Build rapport with your client. Find common ground. This is extremely important.3. Sell the dealership.Talk about the great things your dealership does for your community. How long your dealership has been in business. Some perks. Talk about how great your service department is and how they take care of their customers. This is kind of important.4. Qualify.Get a general ideal of what they want. Two doors or four doors. Car, truck or SUV. Small, mid sized, or full vehicle. Light, medium or dark color.To properly qualify a customer, show them a model less than what they are looking for first, to make sure the vehicle they want isn’t out their price range. Example, if someone wants a mid sized vehicle, show them a Corolla before you show them a Camry. If the customer overpredicted what they want, then they will say that’s what they want. If they are certain what they want, then you helped reaffirm them by taking them to the Camry afterwards.Walk them up to the window sticker, and ask them, does this vehicle seems to have the features you are looking for? The customer is only looking at the price to see if it is within their budget. If they say no, move them to another vehicle. If they say yes, then move to step five.Exception: If you have any warning signs, like the customer talks about a bankruptcy or some kind of other financial hardship during the qualification stage, then move directly to step 8 first before going back to step 5, so you can figure out what used car on your lot will work with their budget. No one wants to buy a $7,000 used car when they test drove a brand new $20,000 car first.5. Demo the vehicle. Do a walk around.A quality walk with a test drive should take around thirty to forty five minutes.Ask, other than price, what are you looking for most in a vehicle?They will answer with one of the following.SafetyPerformanceAppearanceComfortEconomyDependabilityFirst, get the key. If keys are stored inside a box at the car, it makes the work a lot easier. If not, then tell the customer you will be right back while you go to the main office to access the key for the vehicle. Then come back, open the driver door to the car, then open the trunk, hood, and all the doors to the vehicle. Move the customer from the window sticker to under the hood. Explain the vehicle following what they explained they are looking for in spaced. Remember, what you explain your car has that the other sales person doesn’t makes your car better, even if the other car has all the same features. Point out even the smallest of things.Explain feature, function, benefit.Example:The most important feature to me is safety.Okay perfect, let me go over the safety features of the vehicle with you. Do you know what this is?No.These are your anti lock brakes. They pulsate twenty two beats per second. When you are about to get into an accident, or when a vehicle in front of you suddenly slams their brakes, the vehicle maintains control and doesn’t skid forward, allowing you to maneuver your way to avoid an accident. That’s a feature that can save you in a scary situation, right? Nod head up and down.Yes.Now see this here. This little square on the bumper comes out. If, God forbid, you were ever to fall into a ditch, this little square pops off. You are able to have a tow truck tie a rope to pull your vehicle out of a ditch. That would be very important, wouldn’t it? Nod head up and down.Look over here. Do you see these little indentations on the hood? These are crumble zones. What they do, is absorb the crash energy and (deflect, depending on brand) absorb the impact of the crash. This means that if an accident were to ever happen, instead of the crash energy being sent straight through your body, crushing your internal organs, it would be absorbed and deflected by the vehicle. That could possibly save your life, couldn’t it? Nod head up and down.Touch on other parts of SPACED as well in the presentation, but make sure to put a lot of focus and emphasis on the key issue the customer is shopping for. Move to the driver side of the vehicle. Point out the B pillars. Explain how they absorb impacts. Point out benefit. Talk about paint. Door Guards. Other things.Move to trunk. Show roominess. Pull down seats. Show how much storage room there is. Talk about benefits. Get inside the trunk. Show them how much room there really is. Close the trunk lid on yourself. Open it back up with the emergency latch. Show the customer that even if their child is stuck inside, that they could get out of the situation. Tell them to get in the trunk and try it for themselves. If they do, then you’ve sold the vehicle right then and there, almost guaranteed.Move over to the right side of the vehicle. Let the customer sit in the back seat and see how roomy it is. Point out features. Move customer to passenger seat. Close the door. Get in the driver’s seat. Explain more features. Turn on the vehicle. Ask, do you see how quiet the vehicle is?Explain navigation, if there is one. Go over all the interior features and where all the buttons are. Turn on radio. Explain presets. Move car into reverse or drive, pull out from the parking spot, then drive to the front of the main office building.6. The Test Drive.Ask the customer for his ID. Go inside and scan or copy the ID and do what you have to do. Drive the car off the lot. Accelerate heavily. Ask, did you see how well this vehicle accelerated? Brake hard (in a safe location). Ask, do you see how well this vehicle stops? Pull over. Switch seats.Guide the customer around a square. Only take right turns. On the test drive, you stay quiet. You only give directions and ask three questions. I recommend stating one question on each of the turns.Question number 1.Does the vehicle have enough power for you?Yes.Question number 2.Does the vehicle fit your comfort needs?Yes.Question number 3.Overall, does this vehicle have everything you’re looking for in your next vehicle?Yes.7. Trial Close.Once you pull back in the dealership, guide your customer to a parking spot. When you get out and they hand you the key, you ask one question.Mr./Ms. ____, other than price, is there anything else that is stopping you from buying the vehicle today?If the customer says yes, ask what it is.Handle that objection. If the customer insists, then let them go and follow up with them. Remember to give them back their ID. If you don’t, they will think you’re deceptive and evil.If the customer says no, you move to the next step.8. Write up.Take the customer inside. Seat them at a table. Ask them if they want a water, soda or coffee. If they do, PAY FOR IT AND BUY IT FOR THEM WITH YOUR OWN MONEY. Then print a four square and a credit application and bring everything back to the table with you. Fill out a credit application with the customer, first by copying the main information off the license. Then ask if this is their current residence. Fill out work history, etc. Once that is complete, start working the four square.There are four boxes here.Trade.Price.Down Payment.Payment.Personally, I leave the price box blank all the time. Then move to the trade.If they do not have a trade, the deal is easy. Trades are usually what kills a deal, especially when a customer is upside down.If they do have a trade, appraise the vehicle with the customer. To appraise the vehicle, take down pertinent information like miles, how much the customer owes on their loan, etc. When outside with the customer, make it look like you’re really examining their car. If you have no clue what you’re doing, at least make it look like you do. Start the car. Put it in all the gears. Test the radio. Look at the seats in detail. Then go outside. Open up the hood. Just look at things and make like a hmm.. sound. Go over the exterior. Touch every single blemish. Examine it. Then make another hmm sound. Don’t say anything, just touch and make a noise.Go back inside. Try to have a basic understanding of book values of vehicles. Let’s say wholesale book on the customer’s car is $10,000. Tell the customer, the last vehicle of this type you took in wasn’t in as good shape as your vehicle and wasn’t as well maintained. We gave them $5,000 for his vehicle. What that what you are looking for? If they say “No, I was looking for $12,000!”, then you pause… Shake your head a little… Look down and say… I can’t guarantee anything as we haven’t thoroughly appraised your vehicle yet, but if I could get you (Move in $500-$1,000 intervals, depending on how much you low balled the customer) $5,500 on your vehicle, would that work? He will probably lower his offer, yet still probably be around the $11,000 range. Repeat the same thing. Ask him if you can get him $6,000 for his vehicle, if that would work. They’ll stated something else. Then ask, how close to $6,000 can you come? They’ll give you a number. Tell them you’ll try to get this number for them and you’ll fight for them.Write down all these numbers. Write your numbers big. Write the customer’s numbers small. Cross out the numbers that didn’t work. Circle the one that the customer wants.Next, move to the down payment of the vehicle. Let’s pretend the car is $20,000 to make it easy. Tell the customer, based on bank guidelines, the average down payment is 30%. That would be $6,000. They’ll respond and react, saying maybe they only have $1,000 down. Cross out the $6,000. Ask them if they could come up with $5,500. In most cases, the customer will move up his down payment to $1,250-$1,500. Ask them if they could come up with $5,000. By this time, the customer will be up to maybe $2,000. Then ask them, how close to $5,000 can you come? $2,250 or $2,500? They may say $2,250. Then ask them, if I were to give you x days (I think it’s 14, could be longer or shorter), then how much closer to the $5,000 can you come? Circle that number.Then move to payments. Take the amount of the vehicle and times it by three. Then make all the numbers odd, so the math is harder. Say, based on industry standards, the average payment for this vehicle will be $593. If someone calls you out and say this is ridiculous, how did you come up with that figure, tell them it’s based on 3 years financing at a 7% interest rate. It will be extremely rare for someone to call you out on this, and they will just work the payment instead. Most people will toss out a number like $200. For some reason, that’s the magic number everyone has when they want a vehicle. Ask them if they will be able to afford the vehicle for $553 a month. They’ll probably bump themselves up to $225-$250. Then ask if they could do $537 a month. They’ll probably bump themselves up to $300. Ask them how close to $537 they can come. Whatever they respond with, give them a range. So if they say I can do $325, say so basically you can do $325-$350, right? They’ll say yes.Right now, you’re looking at a loser deal if you write it up exactly as stated. However, this is a negotiation. You’re putting realistic images into the mind of the customer. The customer is trying to state their position with their irrational expectations. Your job is to spend quality time doing this negotiation so the customer can understand that he’s going to be paying more than he wants to pay. Also, inflating the numbers fixes any situation where a trade with negative equity can out price the customer, because they will have much more realistic expectations when you come back with a price.The $2,250 for a down payment will cover a little more than the taxes. The $350 a month will cover the majority of the cost of the vehicle, aside from about $2,500 of the MSRP, at five years at a 7% interest rate.Tell the customer you’re going to be working for them and you’ll fight for them to try to do your best to get the deal they want. Present this offer to your desk manager. Fight for the customer. Then when your manager presents you with an offer, take it back to the customer.Tell the customer you went to bat for them. Present them with your offer. If your product demo was amazing, they will agree to buy on the counter offer. If not, then you will have to go through this stage about one to two more times. Eventually, you’ll come to an agreement and the customer will agree to buy the vehicle. Then comes the next step.9. Finance.Wait with the customer and have small talk until the finance office is ready for them. While they’re in the finance office, take the vehicle to have it cleaned and prepared. Once the customer is out of finance, sit with them and go over all the booklets with the customer and explain them. Explain what the lemon law booklet is for, the tire warranty, the owner’s manual, the warranty, functionality of the keys, everything. Make sure you include your business card with your direct cell phone number into their owner’s manual. Then go with the customer to the vehicle, and if it has a navigation, explain everything you know about how it works, sync the customer’s phone, etc. Then wave off the customer as they leave, only after thanking them for their business. Then comes the final step.10. Ask for referrals.Call the customer in a few days and ask how they are enjoying their vehicle. Also, ask them if they have any referrals they would like to send off your way.That would be how to better the efficiency of your sales.Now, there’s a science to track all of this.It is called a 4-3-2-1 sheet.It is an excel spread sheet with a lot of boxes, printed on a piece of paper. There is a row dedicated to each day. Most people use it as a tally sheet.The first box is how many customers you talk to that day.The box after that is how many customers you test drove.The following box is how many people you wrote up.The last box is how many car sales you have.With these numbers, you can calculate your percentage of customers to test drives to write ups to sales, to see exactly where you need improvement. I think I only talked to 60 customers on the month I sold 23 vehicles, so I had a very high closing ratio. However, I really knew how to study the science behind this sheet.The target goal is to have 85-95% of the people you speak with test drive a vehicle.65-75% of the people you test drive should be written up.40-50% of the customers you write up should leave with a vehicle.Back in 2006, the average car salesman would encounter 3 customers a day. Car salesmen usually work six day weeks, so that would be about 25 days a month. That would total up to about 75 customers.The average car sales person, at that time, was selling about 8 cars a month.Based on the 4-3-2-1 sheet, if 8 cars a month were sold, that means 16 were being written up. The other 59 weren’t.If the test drive ratio should be 85-95% and the write up ratio should be 65-75%, then we can see that the fault doesn’t lie in getting the customer to the write up table, but instead, it lies in getting the customer into either a test drive or a write up. The reason for this is that most car salesmen ask their customers if they want to test drive the car. If you read through my process, you can see that I never really asked the customer anything, except for what I knew they wanted. I just assumed the sale all the way through, from the very beginning.If only 16 people are being written up, more than likely only 32 people went on test drives. That means that 43 people, or 57% of your leads were wasted, without being able to fully experience the vehicle.In order to improve this ratio, you need to demo your product. You need to get your customers excited. You need to test drive your customers. You also need to follow up, because a lot of the people who were just looking that day will be ready to buy in a week to a month.Let’s say I sold 23 cars. Let’s say six of those sales were made by following up with customers who had once walked on the lot. So, that month, I sold 17 cars from new business. That means I wrote up 34 customers. I wrote up about 75% of the people who went on test drives. That would be a total of 45 people who went on test drives. I test drove about 75% of the people I spoke with.Personally, according to this sheet, I spoke to less people than my fellow sales person. However, my conversion ratio was much higher. Without the follow up, I sold more than twice as many cars than they did.The real life scenario was interesting as well. The number one person in the store sold 25 vehicles. I was number two at 23. Number three had 18. Number four had 15. Then the rest were at 12 or less, in a store of fifty car sales associates, internet inclusive.Why?Because I didn’t prejudge anyone and I followed a strict outline to my process. I went over my numbers every single day to identify where I was lacking, to understand what I needed to do to improve.Do you see how raising the test drive amount can raise the amount of vehicles sold in a month?Oh wait, I think I showed you how to sell more vehicles than your target goal of 15. I take back some of my advice. Don’t try too hard!Read more on my blog: The Ultimate Guide To Increasing Sales