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October 28, 2017 12:30 pm
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Can you handle the truth. Snake oil car pricing that's you know it's it's interesting to me.
This might come together for a minute why Robbie think you can't handle the truth but as I approached the whole topic of snake oil being a car salesman my entire life. I do so, really, with a great deal of fear and trembling, understand that when we judge others.
What is happening there. According to John and Paul Sanford.
If you want to know amazing video. They did something on YouTube which there's a link at my website that talked about Bitterroot judgments and so when you throw a judgment out there like I'm in a judge these people for the way that they price their cars. The problem is you throwing this little golf ball out there at this person when you so one judgment you reap back a whole bunch so the lender to reap a whirlwind safe.
You picture that you can throw this little golf ball out there those way those people pricing while the bad news is you're going to reap this gigantic mountain of golf balls coming back at and so with that in mind, but there still you know there's this whole issue of snake oil pricing and so rather than judge motives and all that.
I think it's it's best just to try to get to the truth. And of course if we get to the truth.
The question is can you handle the truth and here's an interesting little factoid Bob who I have with me, my Christian junkyard going to love this.
The truth is that snake oil has its benefits, especially the snake oil in the here's where it came from. I found this in the my 2018 Farmer's almanac the Chinese railroad workers. They came over in the 1800s. Write your member they're building a railroad across America bait they had nobody would do it so they got the timing to come over and they paid him to come over from China when they came they brought their snake oil with and the truth is that the Chinese have a water snake that would eat fish and because it would eat all these fish. It was very, very high in amino acids and amino threes or whatever you call those things and so when they would get the oil out of these Chinese water snake. They brought them over, well you can imagine when you been working on the railroad all the live long day that you would get sore right you get these really sore muscles. Whether Tiedemann would rub this snake oil into their muscles because it was full of amino three. And guess what, it gave him relief and so they started they will do this well you know the Westerners tried to pick up on this oil. The few rattlesnakes while rattlesnakes don't eat fish, you know, they're not like the Chinese snakes and so the whole idea of a snake oil salesman was that they were using rattlesnake oil when they should have been using Chinese water snake oil & so you can see the history of snake on a fishing guard shack. Three.
We like to get at the truth of all possible as we work for the Truth Network, the truth about snake robot. I bet you wanted about cars and so were we get together and so the truth is that dealers if were to talk about car dealers and their pricing dealers have to make a profit.
They just do. And if you think about it if you're going to carry 100 cars out there you got your card.
You and your gonna carry 100 cars there $30,000 apiece. These days, and so hundred of those cars means you have $3 million tied up the counter $3 million in inventory and that dealer could easily put $3 million in the stock market are annuities and they could get a huge return on that investment. Instead, he is investing his life in a business that employs lots of people that helps the whole community. So they have to see a return on those million sitting out there. The average dealer really has a payroll of more than $100,000 a month so is he is lame or that at night.
I got up all these people. I gotta make this payroll it's going to be hundred thousand dollars in those two expenses alone keep them up many many many nights and I can assure you I know that personally because I have been there.
You got the T-shirt and I know you, but then yet the factory pressure needed to take more cars got employees want more money. Media salespeople coming in every hour as well as every Cub Scout mother and racecar driver want to sponsor never experienced so I make all that work with new car pricing at a dollar over invoice right that split the guy down the street to sell the cars you really really think. Does anybody think they're only making a dollar when they sell this car.
Well, one way they do that is they sell high market aftermarket products right that there is more than a dollar mark up in that paint ceiling under coating fabric protector antitheft etching and the list goes on and on and on about these things that they will add on that there is high market and the funny thing, and maybe it's not funny but when we were selling back in the day we called snake oil to pick it way out we had people that specialized in snake oil salesman that was there deal that they had to go out there and and again I'm I'm just saying this is the way that it work, but it work because honestly we didn't think our customers could handle the truth that a car dealer needs to make about $1800 when they sell a car that doesn't worth the investment of investing that $30,000 out there and laying out there and they don't necessarily rip believe that you would let them make that much money if they would just trust you with the truth and so they come up with other interesting things like documentary feet. Ideal research on that one Bob and you know in Florida right now. The average dealer is charging over $600 for documentary. That's the sonic up the papers right when you got a notary and it might cost you to report on the bed. Let's face it, when they, the doc fee think it has something to do with the load, and now you think that allowing an entity as it is essentially think about. They do have a payroll it's huge.
They do have to make that payroll and they do have to sell cars in order for all that happened in every single car with you realize it or not, comes with a cost of all those employees that not there so the question understanding all these different is where does the consumer fit into that. Or, more importantly, maybe where do you fit into that because again we can throw that judgment out and go why are you doing this it would appear to be deceptive. Well Bob.
The truth is that underneath that issue is a really an issue of do you trust God, or do you trust the person that you're dealing with on the other side of that, who by the way, it is an image of God.
There made in that image and so it's interesting Jesus told this wonderful parable of the talents you might remember that he gave all these guys is money and the ones I went and hid it and it really didn't go good for him. In fact, Jesus said that that guy was going to be gnashing his teeth in the darkness of me. This is not good.
I mean that what so what's up with this guy all he did was hide the money. Why would he get up in hell. Well, the issue is.
He didn't trust his boss.
He didn't trust the heart of his boss, and more, and that he didn't trust that God was to come through with him that he could go put all that money and cars in and in and people and make this large investment and that God would come help him give him a return on that investment, and it would work out good for him.
The issue is trust God is a very risky God. He trusted you, Bob with free will. He trusted me with it. God is a very trusting God, but he requires from us similar trust and so when you look at your own life and I do look at my life and I think wow where is it that I'm not trust and just this week, Bob called me up short because we had a Jesus labor of love applicant that needed we we went out there. We got this car donated and it turned out, it needed a wheel bearing. I was like why we don't have the money to fix this will bearing. I don't know what to do but to let the car sit there Bob.
In this poorly he's been crying and call me whatever and I'm all upset about it and Bob sends me back this text it says Robbie God hasn't set the money yet and so the question is in so many of our lives. Where is it that we are not trusting where is it that we are using snake oil in order to get what we want and I would love to know your own story where you might see that your life. I got a couple more examples as simple as when you asked my wife and see if you are surehanded for you if there we come back in the house need the true house need snake Bob I don't know.
Can you handle the truth.
That is a lot of a lot of trust. It takes out there to see if that person that you're dealing with is actually willing to handle the truth is pretty amazing what you bring to the table today and is something that I really hadn't given much thought they meant because he hears every day.
You are quite often how folks are selling things I've heard it all for years and years and years in some places you out when I sent it to you. It cost Gina that the there is no way to stay in business sale and it caused her dollar over invoice or anything like that so it's really something to ponder Vienna weathers also to stuff in that and I want to talk about that throughout the show today United to help people understand the truth and again we don't want to judge.
Believe me, I don't want to judge the people that they all have their motives in the end they're doing what they know I'm I'm really more interested in my own issues in my own self thought about where and as I as I promised, here's a real simple one where I don't think my wife can handle the truth right because you know I sit down at the dinner table and the question comes. Have you washed your hands you know and II feel you know that's somewhat insulting whatever and I I don't think my wife can handle the truth so I I'm kinda like snow white and seven to worse when the door said recently and I love that answer. I really do and I believe all of his mad told mom to a girl and that analyze them.
The extended time and but the good thing is I don't think my wife can handle the truth.
It really. I'm insulted that you asked that question and I and I don't think it matters in.
There's a lot of things I think that would be the truth. And unfortunately I'm not walking in the truth because at the end of the day. Do I trust that God's going to come through. Just like as we talked about the Jesus labor love.
If you're wondering about that conversation about I have the Jesus labor.
Love this car repair for single moms widows and families in crisis and we have this widow was up in the mountains lives out on this country Road this car was donated for her.
She calls me most every other day if not every day crying that she needs a car because she and her daughter have to get the hospital in this that the other and this car was donated and it took forever to get the tide.
When we finally got the title and then I went down there. Bob says oh by week we got the car we can take it out there and we went out there and drove it, but the rear axle screaming because got up at will. Bearing Bob is a milder over its life is a beautiful car absolutely gorgeous but we know want to take it out to Mount Airy with a bad will bearing and so we got affixes will bearing well, that takes money. And that takes resources and honestly, we'd run out and I was I was just like well at an hour to do Bob nobody sent the money and he sent me back this text Robbie God hasn't sent it yet.
It was like wow that's the truth and he must've felt I could handle the truth because it really sent me to go on, you know want. That's right, this lady is going to get a car. It's gonna be amazing. I don't know how it's all gonna work. Appetite does in God's timing is perfect and is not necessarily my timing bobbin and it really comes down to an issue of can I trust that God's going to meet these needs. And it doesn't necessarily take Robbie to make it happen.
The things we've been through a three years at work in in life and everything every time where there was fire whatever United that the major catastrophes that a Stratocaster the years. Every time God is sweet Dan because the death of the South shows the way. And you know sometimes I have to remind myself of that and I try to remind thereby that works there for us that that is so amazing what he's done and how many times he's done it and say let's get our thinking cap on and remember he's dented all these other times do you really think he's going to turn us loose at this moment. So if he comes down to.
Do you trust God, but here's the thing I'm wondering if you have the courage to do because I think everybody out there listening could learn from you that there's something in your life as you heard the story, the Holy Spirit, saying yeah that's that's what Rob is talking about. You're not trusting that these people can handle the truth so you're doing this deceptive.
Whatever it is and however it is that you're doing it and hopefully God's given you a way to repent of that but think of how the people could learn from that because this is a live show and you can call in. There's the number 866-348-7884 Holy Spirit might be saying yeah call in and share. This is some I'm struggling with. How can I trust these people with the truth in I think about restaurants. They do some very similar to what party was to write date they sell that blue plate special for a dollar 99, knowing that they can lose money because they're brought hope in your to buy the tea which is a dollar 50 that cost him $0.20.
I mean that's the deal.
I mean, I see that and I'm not judging that I'm saying okay will eat you know they their stuff like that.
They got you in the door and that was the idea and but there there hoping to make it up another way kids eat free to the free and and there's so many marketing ideas are all out there, but it's at the end of the day. You know, do you believe that people could handle the truth or is that marketing or what he maybe think I'm all wet. I don't know but dealers you know they they struggle with that.
They struggle with how to why really make what I need to make on these cars. In order for this to happen and so there are things like the one that used to just like really this etching that they would put in the windshield with this number that supposedly somebody stole your car. You know they would give you this in an and the stuff would cost like $0.35 or $0.40 to form a car and he would sell it for him to 300 on. I mean, but the end of the day you sold the car for dollar will invoice to where you know it's a is a lot there.
Would you have the courage to call in and share your story, 8663 for 87884 866-34-TRUTH we got Christian part I theater, the classic Satan so much more efficient partnership handled the true need.
Can you handle the truth on the Christian car guys show the whole idea of snake oil snake oil pricing out as our work and how do we navigate as Christians through this situation. I hate that listeners didn't get to hear Bob about this.
They grow in the first segment we talked about what actually snake well was and how it actually did have benefits at one point in time and so there's all sorts of things. I don't want to give snake will a bad name.
I think it has a bad enough name and I understand about the marketing things and people that thinks people have to do to market their staff, but you know the truth is always worked really well for us.
I mean I understand the that the concept of of you had to promote your business and you have to encourage people to come and do business with you and everything and when we burnt to the ground. We had nothing but ashes and said we did our very best to market the ashes we showed everybody that our place was burnt United tasty. We had just some concrete out there. We had no building.
We in. We didn't have much going for. And so we took the one thing we had and that was the fire and and we had to market it for a little while and part of me was kinda concern was that ethical was that the right thing to do.
It it was all we had was ashes so we use as ashes to. You know that's the benefit send gonna make it to help us come back and help us recover and it really it was very effective and interesting. Interesting is your talk that story my father and I had a Pontiac dealership in Georgetown, Texas and one time we got hit by hail and if your cardio and you got $3 million with a car sitting out there and I mean it in the hail a little bit.
I mean, it hailed and I mean it was serious damage on these cars and every single car we had in stock. It was out there was all covered in these hail dents and we assumed that, like oh this is the end of the world you know the insurance companies could come fix it but who's gonna come by these cars been painted all over because it knows a car dealer, Carl is contained. It is just like to suggest that's got paint as they spin and rank, but people came. We can even advertise it. Bob people came from all over because they heard there was hail and they knew there were hail damage cars and the insurance company would pay to fix the car for them after they bought it and they want one of the discount and so we need literally sold out our whole inventory in a matter less than 30 days. My father and I sit there look at each other got what we thought what we thought was the end of the world turned out to the lesson. This unbelievable marketing idea and having learned that now is a young man when I was at crown. Out of all the one-day ice. I decided hey we don't have any hail right now but we could do a scratch and dent sale and so I went out with the marker and found every little itty-bitty being, or whatever on every car and I would put a great big circle on it and I would put you in a discount $600.
What has and camera crews come in do this scratch and dent sale and people same kind of thing. It was it was him but however it was manipulated. It was different than the real snake oil their braille and lose the knowledge that Florida previously enjoyed that or something. This sometimes you can get a refrigerator in the scratch of the dance going to be against the wall.
Anyway, say it is a site in xenon so I'm not saying that legitimate scratch and dent sales are not of value.
It's just a matter of where's your heart and I know my heart was when I was thought that I'd lost everything and also new in my or my heart was when I thought what would just make this appear to be something that is not in so you know that that the challenge again is do you trust God's gonna come through for you is that really you know am I going to go take my talents whatever that may be it may be money, it may be talent and am I going to go invest that because I know that God's gonna be alongside me because he loves to go out an adventure and he's calling you to do some now is got a few minutes to get a Christian Car Guy theater episodes in a plane.
The last segment to call in and share your snake oil story. We would love to hear what you have the courage to share and who could learn from that 866-34-TRUTH 87884. Want to by all means give you a chance to call in and share in a little history is that car dealers we can use time window stickers when I started selling trucks even after handling the stick and so somebody came on the lot you could tell him whatever you want a new car or new truck was there is no stickers. It was the Maroney law that came in and change that where they put window stickers on and then the manufacturers started dropping the markup in the cart car dealers to the car dealers. In order for their cars to look more competitive. But what they were doing was eroding the dealer pricing and so what a lot of dealer started doing was adding the supplemental sticker so they could get the market back that they used to have in order to make a profit selling the cars and so it's not all just one sided for the poor car dealer. I mean it one point in time something walked on the lot. We could tell him whatever we wanted to sell the car for which legitimately. There's nothing wrong with that.
I mean, you bought the car, you can sell for what you want. Same thing with you Bob. You got cars out there you got parts out on your lot you can sell them for whatever you want to. You think somebody should be able to regulate what you sow apart for after I don't think that would work out too well that you then we Chanda just we try to do a price and in a way we can look on the computer. We can see what other places are selling. We don't want to in the prices that some other places have and we don't want to be that the highest by any means and that in just dependent on our situation is is where we try to place ourselves in that but the best thing we can do because is that get it safely toward the bottom but not absolutely to the bottom, in case we had to buy the product from somebody else to replace it with if that makes any sense because you got all sorts of issues that you want to make sure that is the end of the day you help your customers and if you price stuff too low you go out of business and everybody who bought stuff from you loses all your employees don't have a job anymore you there's a lot more to running the business and people see in their bomb yes or abs at an absolutely, absolutely. It's when I started that I used to be the guy in the when I started dressing cars.
I was the guy that poked a hole in the gas tank and cut the gas tank off of the car before the cars were crushed, and that when they took that metal rod that I used to stick in the gas tank away from me and handed me any penances here run a business is that I have a lot of learning today and and some of them some of the best learning you can do in life is by making mistakes and try not to make him but so many times he had that the way did it wrong. We we made so many mistakes we that we stumbled on every everything you can stumble on because we just didn't know we had never, it was unexplored territory for us and that you know it worked out great and we had times when it was just superduper and then we had times where we had nothing but ashes I can say God held us up through every bit of it and gather this is a cyst made life bearable and in circumstances that he thought was you couldn't handle and seems so similar to the parable of talents right you took what God gave you and you invested and think of, not wisely.
At first I but I know what benefit it's been to me personally. I know it's been to the Jesus labor. Love as far as a ministry. I know it's been to the Winston-Salem rescue Mission in so many different other things that I just happen to know because I know you but God did that right. I mean easily if there is any held us up through the fire and he held us up through a lot of issues that that obviously you faced in your business of of people or try to steal your money and people that have done this that the other that I'm on some more successful. Some of them were very successful at stated in our money that the United Way we just another one of the mistakes that we Chanda learn from correct the situation and John not to file in that whole again in an and it's a beautiful thing.
I mean yeah and where I don't know. You know, certainly I had a business I invested that and it all went away. I mean II and I had all that egg on my face and I still have egg on my face whenever God continues to use what he taught me and continues to bless and what a gift it is to be able to share that with you today.
We got a Christian Car Guy theater episode 31 50 is so awesome somebody actors God gives us you are getting enjoy this episode. Stay tuned. Got Christian heart I theater jailhouse justice number eight fiercely on jailhouse justice episode seven we see the evil Warren's sidekick Lou now calling themselves Eldon and Otto at a church potluck to continue in their words. That's the F their biscuits at the potluck and butter of the towns folks while they're at it. The Dumars planning to open up a fine for auto parts plant right next to Nahum's garage their nefarious plan is to give the townsfolk to invest in this project and then not only take off with the investment money to take off with Valley as well. They're not giving up on kidnapping. The prettiest girl in town. Ironically, Allie is living with her grandparents. Bonnie and Bob because her parents were killed in a car crash 12 years ago a car crash that was caused by the know are no nobody in town is aware of that. Meanwhile, at the potluck, oblivious to all this Nettie Nahum's wife is cheerfully introducing Eldon and Otto around is the townsfolk celebrate the return of the share.
It's an honor to meet. It seems to pull been very busy lately rescuing folks and since even adopt what I understand actually that was used as its own for a few weeks uses is been mighty busy since undergone use quite rescue to see Eldon well uses you know how it is in a small town. There are no secrets. Some reason you to look familiar to you because of senior pictures on the posters you have grown so this meeting for you auto plant sounds like a terrific idea to bring jobs to our little tone will yes share this town will never be perfect patient next and rise auto parts and the man who knows how to use. You know how important location location location location. Such a deal.
It's a win-win right auto with you and see here's a great place to meet you Bonnie and Allie pretty name for a pretty good think you actually was use rescued amazing story really kinda crazy Chris so proud of our granddaughter Eldon. She was actually the princes for the kind of help flow earlier this year I came in D. It's funny, Eldon sure you look familiar. You look familiar to me to maybe expose posters around that we've met before. No many years and not a welcome to our little are so grateful to you for what you're planning to do the pleasure is all mine you in church on Sunday would miss it faster. Well, I can't tell you how good it is to be back in town very much. I've missed you all and I want to know that although there have been some frightening things that are going on in our little town. Eustis and I will do everything in our power and with God's help to keep the style safe. Thank you and God bless you.
So, Warren, Lou, Eldon and Otto seem to pull the wool over everyone's eyes.
Although there were few question marks in the minds of the Sheriff and Bob how his grandfather, was over and cleaning up was going on that he took out the trash in the alley next to the park that he overheard Lou anew are chuckling as they stood next to Jimmy's Jeep.
They were enjoying how they deceived everyone the son that he rushed back into the church hall and start talking to Nahum Pastor Jack, the Sheriff Eustis and Bob about which I knew that God right Bob Custer Jack, we look at the face recognition on the computer in your office. See who these guys are when you well.
Computer thinking about. Meanwhile, Warren Lou heard the whole thing is a problem. Nettie, and hid behind the door to our old blue and he is Jeep Wrangler ready to be perfect to go off-road, Jimmy decides to peek outside, take a look at Eldon and Otto and just then they take off it is Jeep's. That is if they hope to tune in for the next episode will find out if the new Warren Lou will either see the light.
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