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Originally Posted by that_one_guy
For me, it isn't what you wear but how you wear it. .
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The very worst in my view are the guys that won't commit one way or the other.
You know what I mean! The golf shirt, dress pants and mismatched sports coat. Or the dirty jeans, running shoes nice pressed collared dress shirt.
Like you said it works both ways when talking about a clothing/lifestyle based bias.
Back in 08 my wife and I were doing some yard work and had to run out for some supplies. I was wearing dirty jeans and an old Rage Against the Machine concert tee and she was only slightly better dressed.
After getting our stuff we passed the local Mitsu dealer and up on a ramp, in all it's shining glory, was the new model, blue Lancer GTS. As we were already at that end of town, my 03 Lancer had a bazillion miles on it and my wife had the basest of base model Outlanders I said let's stop and take a look.
She heads over and starts looking at the top line Outlander GT and I am drooling over the new design of the Lancer. So I start looking for a salesman and finely spot two leaning against the counter chatting and watching us like we are trying to steal parts off the cars.
I ask if they want to sell cars or talk about their lunch and one comes over obviously thinking he is wasting his time.
We tell him what we want (both top of the line GTs) and he just looks at me and says "you know how much that will cost?" and tried to steer us toward the lower models. I said "no these are what we want".
By this time I was getting pretty pissed at his attitude but wanted that car damn it!
So we start to do up some paperwork to at least start the bank approval (still needed to do trade in values even though he had set a price I found acceptable) and he asks for income numbers.
Well ... at the time I made just under six figures and my wife made about 75% of what I did so it was a pretty high number in total.
Once I told him our incomes there was a very abrupt change in his whole personality. All of a sudden coffee appeared, he wanted to show us the features of the cars and could not do enough for us. In fact he changed so much that no matter how bad I wanted the car I was not going to buy it from him! We took up a bit more of his time and when he said sign here I just said "Nope I think we will shop around a bit more" and got up and left. My wife thought I had lost my mind.
Went back the next day (all cleaned up and dressed better) and when he came over wagging like a little puppy I just walked past him to another sales person that had not been there the day before and told them what we were after. We completed the deal (even better then the one he had offered) and he never saw a penny out of me.
Now if I had shown up in my office casual cloths I am sure we would have been treated totally different right from the start.