I was going to start this article by subtly mocking our relationships with salespeople, you know, making a few ‘slicker than an oil spill’ kind of dig. It’s not that I believe those stereotypes, they are just fun to come up with.
Subsequently, with the majority of the credit for the ‘mack-nificent’ Mack truck gracing the pages before you belonging to a New South Wales salesman, I thought I could start my account by poking fun.
As a victim of countless salespeople encouraging me to get the ‘extended warranty’ I was very reluctant to do this story and risk finding myself complimenting a salesperson.
That is not something we should be encouraging. I mean, the generalisation is that salespeople are trying to extract every dollar out of us consumers and, in return, we are trying to extract every possible extra out of them. However, before you all assume this particular salesperson bribed me with a huge Mack merchandise pack, that’s not the case. That’s not to say I can’t be bought off; there is still time before this story goes to print. I can very easily be bought off.
When I caught up with John Saint, the aforementioned salesman, he turned out
