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[quote name=\'VETECISFORGRANDMAS\']I remember my salesman days at COMPusa
I never went to the mandatory meetings, and never got crap for it, because my managers all knew that there was no point to being there. After I started showing up to meetings right before I had to quit, I was shocked. Every monthly meeting they rolled out a new pay plan. What it ammounted to is you could make more money (With no cap on potential earnings) but your hourly wage was cut down. So the 2 hours I worked before the store opened I would make base, and then in the remaining hours I would have to sell about double what I normally would just to make a little bit more. A pay raise was more like a pay cut. Very typical of all sales jobs.[/QUOTE]
That must have been after I was working there. I started at my CompUSA store in the good-old-days when a laptop sold for about 4 grand, and a desktop would be $800 for a Packard Bell shitbox or $1500 for a decent Compaq etc. You know that \"two week training\" that new hires were supposed to go through? I was getting asked questions on my second day, and completely left alone by my \"trainer\" manager by day three. Training? Yea, right.
But by the end of the first week (we had weekly tallies on the sales board) I was #3 in sales. Week 2, I was #1 by about a $2000 gross margin... And from week 3 onward, I owned that board. One week, I moved over $500,000 gross in computers. My average was about 150k gross. I took an old laptop that I had, intentionally put a pen on the keyboard, and shut the lid. Boom. That smashed screen computer was then mounted to the laptop sales line, right in the middle with the $5000 business computers. EVERY SINGLE TIME I walked a customer down the line and showed them the options... They saw that, and bought not just the warranty, but the separate screen warranty from me.
My base salary was $7 per hour, but I was clearing AFTER TAXES over $16 with the incentives from those sales. I was seriously outpacing even the guys in the corporate sales group that worked out of my store. One guy came in to look at machines, and I got him. Turned out, he was a business owner that was just THINKING about upgrading. Didn\'t have a corporate account. :evil: That day, he left with FIVE new complete Compaq desktops, full of accessories (mousepads and wrist rests that I re-priced for a penny) and full 5-yr warranties on everything. Corporate got wind of this guy, and tried to take him away. I refused, and when he came BACK a week later, they tried again. He told them straight out, he would ONLY buy from me, as I was the only one who talked to him as a PERSON and not a checkbook.
He then, on the spot, bought TEN
Armada laptops with full warranties. These were 5k BEFORE the 1k in warranties, each.
That was the 500k week.
Why did I leave? The operations manager pulled me into his office and informed me that our store was being noticed by regional (and further up) for the sales numbers, and they wanted to know why more people weren\'t closer to my numbers. I was actually told that *I* had to slow down, that they were paying me too much. In a sales job? The warranties were 99.9 percent profit for the store, and I had almost a 75% acceptance rate.
They fired me about 2 weeks later (just before 90 days, actually) with some bullshit excuse that a manager had called my name and I had ignored them, so it was \"insubordination\" and grounds for termination. Yea, right. f$%k em with a rusty pole.
- with a $100 commission minimum. Up the road at Hyundai, the guys got a flat commission no matter what was left in the car - $150 for an Accent, $300 for a Sonata, etc. And we were paid weekly with cheques, no direct deposit :nuts:
