Is there free classifieds that is very popular for selling cars?

I want to start selling cars, I have questions for car salesmen? Car Salesmen/women please answer!?

• I'm a 26 year old single male who lives in Mason, OH. I am within 30 minutes to downtown Cincinnati, Dayton, and an hour from Columbus, OH. I have a college degree and a great track record in sales. I sell boats now, but my passion is cars. I've always loved cars, high end cars. My first job out of college was selling used cars and I'd sell 20 cars a month, but the owner was a dick and only paid $100 a car! So I left after three months and started selling boats. I've been doing it for four years now and have been the number one salesman every single month at the store I work at since I came on, 50 months in a row to be exact. I sell a lot of boats and have been the #1 salesman in the midwest for two of the lines we carry. You would think I'd make a lot, but I only make about 65k a year, and I sell around 3 million worth of product a year or about 100 new boats @ 30k each. I know I will be successful at car sales, and my father was a car dealer. He had a Bentley, Rolls Royce, Jaguar, and Landrover dealerships across Cincinnati. So I could use his connectios to land a job at one of the high end auto dealerships around town. I have a question for people who are in this field. How is it right now? Would you recommend anyone to come try it out? What has your experience been like?

• Answer:

  You don't need to have any super secret intuition or insight to know how things are in the car industry nowadays; about 35% of the marketplace has evaporated, almost literally overnight, and while things are slowly stabilizing, there are several obstacles remaining before new car sales becomes the kind of place for anyone with guts of steel. First of all, there's about 1/3 too many dealerships fighting over the 2/3 of the marketplace that's left, and Ohio is one of the worst affected states. About the only saving grace any new car salesperson has going for him is if he doesn't happen to be stuck trying to sell Chrysler products. Ford salespeople probably have it best, as they simply have the best and most compelling product to sell and nobody has to feel like they have to justify their decision to own a Ford. Even so, it's certainly no cakewalk for them either. With the economy still weak, many of the challenges are simply out of dealers' hands. You can't sell a car to a customer who has no savings and can't get financed, no matter how much they want to buy or how much they're willing to pay for the privilege. Even so, most customers are so well-informed with all of the publicly available information, sales at or above dealer invoice, where anything but a "mini" commission can be made, are very rare exceptions indeed. And don't expect sales managers and owners with aging inventory they need to move to help. They'll cut any deal to turn a unit; they don't care how little you make. Plus, with all the dealers closing, there's now 50% too many sales people fighting over 2/3 as many jobs. This means only the best and brightest with proven success histories are getting the best shifts. It's not that dealerships are laying-off salespeople, employees are quitting because the money just isn't there. And those with the most experience, talent, and company-specific training have long ago headed to the premier dealerships where margins still exist by virtue of the high average sales ticket. Most have rigorous specialized training requirements for even established professionals, and to ensure they don't inherit anyone else's bad habits, they start just about everyone over from scratch. People who buy from high-end dealers don't need to be sold, they need to be "attended to". The very last thing they want are salespeople who can't stop selling long enough to let a customer buy a car. Salesmanship means very little. Attentiveness and service mean everything. I'm sure some parts of Ohio are doing just fine and have their share of Jag, Benz, and Rover drivers like anywhere else, but it's certainly not the first place I'd try to break-in to such an industry, and this certainly wouldn't be my first choice of times. Best of luck. I hope this helps.