Porsche's "Buy One Get One Free" - Seriously

[ae86_16v]

Porsche dealer - "I got it wrong with the buy one get one free card".
Written by Jenny Shu
Friday, 23 February 2007


Glen Fergusson - Sales and Marketing manager for a brand new Californian Porsche dealer. Has lost his job and faces possible legal proceedings as the company strives to reclaim the costs of the 18 Porsches given away free under Glen's Opening day "buy one get one free promotion" "I admit I didn't really do the numbers properly on this one" said Glen who told reporters that he had "seen the concept work really well for coffee stores" and in terms of numbers you could argue that Glen's campaign worked. As the new Porsche dealer sold 18 Porsches in the first hour of the store opening.

It took the head office a full hour to realise what was going on and subsequently shut the store.

Local man Bruce Stepper took out a second mortgage on his home after getting a promotional flyer in his mailbox. "I am ecstatic - I brought a shiny red Porsche today, got another one free and I have sold just sold it on EBay, all up I end up getting a Porsche 911 for $5000"

Jane Cameron was arguably even more entrepreneurial. The local Janitor purchased a Porsche using the dealers "no deposit finance plan for low income earners", sold both cars, paid off the finance account and walked away with $120,000 profit. The finance plan was another one of Glen's initiatives that has now been cancelled.

A red faced Glen stated "I have never really been too good at Math and I was sure the whole time we were making money - I was initially blown away by the amount of cars we were selling in that first hour. I had seen the "buy one get one free card" work extremely well for the new coffee shop down the road and thought what a great idea I will try it here."

National spokesman for the dealership chain was quoted as saying "We are just glad that the idiot didn’t have time to run with his 'test drive 5 cars, get one free loyalty stamp card' campaign.

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[ViperASR]

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Pisses me off though that I wasnt able to take advantage of that

[dutchmasterflex]

Oh my my.. that is just too ridiculous. Really hard to believe. Nice to know Porsche hire's dumbasses like this to run dealerships.

[saadie]

LMFAO .....

[silentm]

wow that is just PRICELESS hahaha

[ARMAN]

ummm... what? :shock:

[MIHALS]

did they sell any CGT and gave one free?

LMAO - can't belive this is possible

also wonder, if Magwheel ordered one free GT3RS

[TopGearNL]

!!

I would take a 997TT and the GT3RS for free please!

[Z3uS]

I'm laughing so hard now
And he still tries to justify what he did

[HeilSvenska]

seen the concept work really well for coffee stores

LOLZORS!

[ae86_16v]

My favorite is "no deposit finance plan for low income earners" . . .

Oh man, if you need that to buy a Porsche, you really should not be spending your money on a Porsche.

[79TA]

finally, porsches priced as they should be.

[RC45]

I am wondering if this is even possible - let alone real.

Any one who has ever bought a car, knows that there are at least 3 or 4 people involved in the process - and that younever just get one person from start to finish.

Even if it is a cash sale, you go through the finance department.

I call BS.

[ae86_16v]

^ Yeah I know. . . well he WAS the Manager of Sales.

I don't know. . . that just seems like a HUGE fuck up, if it was real.

[deuces]

wow i would have put in an order for 2 997 gt2's!!!