about us brian (country mouse) is from new hampshire. karel (city girl) is from the new york metro area. in summer 2008 they are driving across the US and moving to portland, oregon. here are their adventures, photos, and observations.
September 25, 2008
sorry for the slightly bad news
So this morning at 7:30 I got a call from the lady last night who purchased the Rainbow. I don't need to elaborate in any way so the short version is this. After work today I went over to their house and reclaimed the Rainbow, there is a 4 day cancellation period in which it can be given back. There is still an upside here, I am one more demonstration closer to having mine for free! There will be more and I am not upset about losing the sale right now because my current goal is to get mine for free, any sales in between are a bonus. I do however feel bad for the young ones since they will not have the clean home they deserve; I really wanted the couple to have the Rainbow for the kids!
It has been quite cloudy here the last couple days and unfortunately I haven't had good chances to take pictures of stuff. I do however have a video that I will put on youtube of Vaux's Swifts funneling into a huge chimney stack at a local school. They sleep there during their migration from Alaska every year for about a month. It was sweet! Karel will help me link it from here so there isn't a problem.
Now I am going to clean out my work van with my awesome Rainbow! there are some chip crumbs and dirt I want to get rid of! for now that is all.
-brian-
posted by brian at 5:52 PM
2 Comments:
Donna said...
That's ok hon, I'm sure you will make some more sales. I hope you don't think less of me as a mom for not having the clean home you deserved:)
She probably spent a sleepless night realizing she probably really couldn't' make the payments. When you start a demo you may want to make some assumptions on their financial state. these must cost a lot.
I know that if my clients are hemming and hawing about a particular conservation practice that i need to leave it alone after i am sure they understood what i was proposing. sometimes they come around to want to do it in a few years - sometimes not. whenever i have pushed in this instance it has been a disaster and they never really do the practice. a lot of time and money wasted on both our parts.
in time you will be able to read people to know when to just do the demo and leave the info.
maybe the other salespeople that say the 2 hour average for a sale can tell know when a person is going to have second thoughts and bring it back.
2 Comments:
That's ok hon, I'm sure you will make some more sales. I hope you don't think less of me as a mom for not having the clean home you deserved:)
She probably spent a sleepless night realizing she probably really couldn't' make the payments. When you start a demo you may want to make some assumptions on their financial state. these must cost a lot.
I know that if my clients are hemming and hawing about a particular conservation practice that i need to leave it alone after i am sure they understood what i was proposing. sometimes they come around to want to do it in a few years - sometimes not. whenever i have pushed in this instance it has been a disaster and they never really do the practice. a lot of time and money wasted on both our parts.
in time you will be able to read people to know when to just do the demo and leave the info.
maybe the other salespeople that say the 2 hour average for a sale can tell know when a person is going to have second thoughts and bring it back.
find rich clients! You are doing great - love you
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