So last weekend I went to LA to help out a friend of a friend who owned a car dealership. They were having a sale and needed girls to assist the people who purchased cars. We wore normal shirts and blended in with staff, which I am not sure was a good thing because I could not believe how shady car salesmen truly are! After sitting in on their team meetings, and learning that car sales really are the hugest scam ever, I couldn’t wait to get out of there.

The morning started way too early…5am Arika & I woke up to get ready for the day. The event was all the way in PALMDALE which is the hottest, most boring town I have ever been to. All that is in Palmdale is pavement, mountains, dirt and Taco Bell. Hell on earth minus the Taco Bell part… We leave LA and head to Palmdale at about 7am. We were supposed to start at 8 but of course were a little late. I had to stop for Starbucks and to get a Monster. I am a mess in the mornings, takes me a bit to get goin… we bump music the whole way there, record a few dumb videos, and finally arrive.

We knew the job was kinda weird but little did we know it was as weird as it ended up being. If the pay wasn’t so good we probably never would have taken it…

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So we arrive and meet our friend Ray. Ray gives us two yellow polo shirts that look like they were made for an over weight 10 year old. Short and fat. I hateeee short, wide shirts. I was so tired I didn’t even care. Plus we were in Palmdale, pretty sure I wasn’t gonna slam into a hot guy at a $99 car sale, so whatever, I will wear my short, fat, yellow polo with pride. We laughed, snapped a pic, and off to work we went. PS I hate my long bangs and no make up little Asian eyes!

So the whole concept of this huge 4th of July car sale was “Buy a Car for $99 bucks”… Don’t even get me started. I mean first of all, who thinks they really are gonna get a working, reliable car for a hundred bucks? And second of all, no car there was even 100 bucks, it was revealed during the “team meeting” that after taxes and license fees, all were a minimum of $500. Ok scam #1.

So tell people they can get a car for $100 bucks but really its $500. Perfect. One by one the idiots lined up. It started off slow but before you know it, there was a line around the block to enter this event. I couldn’t believe how dumb people were. Who gets out of bed on 4th of July to randomly buy a car for $100 bucks. I mean it’s a car, not a pair of shoes.

So anyway, it is our job to pass out the people’s credit loan slips. They were separated by color, red, yellow, green. Green being a higher loan and equalling good credit, yellow being ok credit, and red of course being the crappy credit. I am pretty sure 98% of the line had red papers. Every time they asked what the colors meant I got stressed out on how to continiously answer politely that their credit pretty much sucked and that they were never getting a car.

So basically there is a fenced in lot of cars. Random ass cars. Maroon Toyota Camry’s, Forrest Green Nissan Sentras, Chevy Trucks, Miata’s with rims, etc etc… All cars are marked with expensive prices to get people thinking they cost more then they do… One Sentra was marked for $18,900 like ummm yeah prettttty sure that’s not the Kelly Blue Book on that one….

So the whole game of this event is that people enter this lot hoping to find a $99 dollar car to bid on. Keep in mind there are only 2 out of 90 cars that were actually $100 bucks. So the people are let in and sent racing to search for a car they like….they then sit in the car they like (has to match their paper…red papers could only sit in red group cars and so on) and hope that after we come around and slash the price that it will be slashed to $100 bucks.

People were sitting in brand new mustangs with leather, cd players, etc etc thinking that car would reallly, maybeee be $100 bucks. They were all pissed off too when they found out they spent 4 hours sitting in a car that was really $17k. You could totally tell which cars were the $100 dollar cars so I don’t feel sorry for those people. Hello the 2002 Nissan Sentra rollin on 14′s, missing a bumper, bashed in, paint chipping vs the brand new cars? Really? It was so so sad seeing the poor little Mexican who got in that bashed in car with a big smiling face waiting to see if it was $100 bucks.

So once you find the car you want, you get in the drivers seat and honk to bid. (MOST annoying part! Never ending horns entire day) You wait for literally 4 hours….. until people are done looking, and then the staff walks around slashing the prices, leading the idiots to believe they were getting an amazzzzing deal. They would pump the people up and scream and yell a new SUPER great price and instantly pressure the person to buy it. It’s an instant price slash, do you want it yes or no. They nod and smile and shake the persons hands all to get them to say yes under pressure. So evil! The craziest part is most people say yes I will buy it! The people really thought they were getting a great deal.

I could never work a job like this ever again! The people here had nothing. They were all so excited about possibly getting a new car, yet everyone took advantage of them. One young couple got a $99 dollar car and I seriously teared up. He was so excited with a wad of cash ready to go. The car was so awful, long 4 door beat up thing. Seeing how happy he was just to have a car really gave me a life perspective check.

Either way this event was so sad seeing all the less fortunate people tricked and abused. If you are a car salesman, you need a new job! And if you are just a regular person needing a car try Auto-trader or something because car lots are a total scam!

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