Larry wrote:

1)How were you both dressed when you entered the showroom? I find
they are VERY sensitive to what you drive and what you wear at any
boat dealer, especially if they don't know you.

My friend Dan, a rather well-off medical researcher, wanted me to go
to the boat show with him to look for a smaller boat than the Hatteras
56 he'd just moved off of and sold because he loved to buzz around
Charleston in my jetboat. I agreed to go with him providing he wore
the same clothes he mows the lawn in on Saturday morning, not the
Brooks Brothers doctor's outfit with the Florsheims of his position,
which would make us a "target" for the sharks. He agreed.

Except for being run off a few yachts half the size of the one he'd
just sold because we didn't look like we belonged, the dealers all
just left us alone as we dug through the pile, poking around in the
crannies and bilges trying to see what kind of cheap it was made from.


Larry W4CSC


I suspect it is your attitude more than your clothing. I've never had
the slightest problem being taken seriously by boat salesmen, no matter
what I was wearing, and, when I visit boat dealers, I'm usually wearing
shorts, an old fishing tee-shirt and disreputable sneaks or flip-flops.


BTW, the doc in my immediate family doesn't shop at Brooks or wear
Florsheims.

If you want a really good suit, you'll need to visit Kiton's in Naples.




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