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Ah a classic VinWiki video, kind of missed these.
More than kind of.
An edible morsel among the garbage.
@@qdouble8526 I stopped watching quite a few. Recognized the Aston story but not much of the others. Either ways at least I know his stories are at least a bit less embellished vs some other guest.
At this point I only watch the classic people like rabbit. I hate the mainstream guests that are around nowadays
@@qdouble8526 if you spend your time around honest, interesting people, or listening to them. You might hear the same story occasionally. It's what honest people do when they are recalling something. The polite thing to do is, listen. Just for the sake of those that have never heard it. Or you can just say at the end "Not really a classic since it’s just a mash up of his stories" and appear impatient, needy, rude or as if you don't belong there. If it's not for you, then it's not for you. Just a thought.
Almost makes a flooded supercar purchase sound reasonable. Almost.
Water level > depreciation
no no no freddy. youre not getting a pass hahaha
Only when the person has your experience and patience to make the dream come true!
Dude the amount of sand you still have in the vehicle says no 😂
Not even close buddy...but that's why we watch!!!😂
My heart would sink hearing “I’m invincible” from the driver of a car I’m riding in. 😂
Thinking I might drop a #2?
Mine would probably stop 😂
"I'M INVINCIBLE!!!!" "Well I'm not!" 🤣🤣🤣
Bored, wanna-be nouveau riche cokeheads with no lives are dangerous people.
Geez some people are just the worst 😂😂 had one with such an Attitude when a dude i know drove me home in his fiat punto. A punto... I didnt knew you could be that fast in such a shitbox😅 he drove me up to the place i lived and its a 30kph zone .... He did like 80...the area i lived in was a steep hill with slim roads and tight curves and you could see the way he steered that he has no idea what he is doing... I thought i am going to die 😅😅 never drove with that wackhead ever again. The second Encounter with him was on a birthday of a good friend of Mine. He and i volunteerd to be drivers for the evening. So he managed to get most of the ladies into his car like: oh you dont want to drive with Raphael he drives boring, drive with me and i thought allright you do you. So we did drive to our first destination and when it came time to drive home the ladies refused to get into his car 😂😂😂 they all stepped into my bmw. He was so pissed 😂😂😂
The private investigator and the environmentalist wife is a great story
Happy ending though. Obviously if you need to sneak out to have illicit affairs with your car, the marriage isn’t working
I see Ed telling stories, I watch.
I am not a car guy and do not understand 90% of the details he talks about, but somehow he ended up in my feed and now I love listening to his stories.
Man has a Clark Gable vibe, or is that just me?
Imagine this dude selling you something.....sheesh....SOLD! LOL
He could sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves.
Lots of PTSD in this video. It got a lot longer than I expected. Enjoy!
Always love your stories!
Well, ist would‘ve been shorter if you hadn‘t recycled stories you already told… 😉
@@AltezzaGita4WD Someone's been drinking haterade
You could talk for hours about Lamborghini dealership tales Ed!
Miss yr story telling Ed plz do some more
A former Mercedes salesman told me when a customer comes in with a trade with negative equity, they refer to it as "he's in the weeds". The irony is that these "in the weeds" customers believe buying a new Mercedes is the answer to their problem. Proving you can't help stupid!
Its all upside down
Same goes for too many lease customers. The quietly-financially-smartest I've met bought Hondas or Toyotas, drove them for eight to ten years (usually until the transmissions showed symptoms of a costly repair), then they just bought another new one for the next eight to ten years.
It makes you wonder how some people acquire an income that provides the opportunity to be so stupid in the first place, if they're that stupid.
@@wilc4036 There are absolutely different intelligences which we all have different numbers on. If someone has the gift of gab, or is personable like Bill Clinton was, they can go far. Likewise, someone may have the computer programming smarts, make $250k or more per year, and still not be financially smart.
@@wilc4036 Book smarts and common sense don’t come hand in hand. A lot of people can memorize things well enough to get through school and be “smart” but have no common sense. I was on an engineering team at my university with the “smartest student” - Valedictorian with over a 4.0 GPA, honros, deans list, etc. It took me more time than it should have to explain to them the difference between a male and female butt-connector and why they were called that. We were building a vehicle electrical system as electrical engineers our senior year and that person had every company on the planet throwing money at them because of their GPA. From that day on I stopped wondering.
“I don’t think the netherworld meddles too heavily in exotic car transactions. All I need to have happen is for people to not tell me that my car that I am supposed to still own is for sale by you”. 😂😂😂😂 Ed, you are a master
I think I delivered a piano to the anal Aston Martin guy with the 4 pages of notes. We had a customer order a grand piano. We were told he was very anal from past experience with the salesman. We get to the house and it is a split entry. Meaning when you walk in the front door, there are stairs going up to the living room, kitchen and some bedrooms as well as stairs going down to a rec room, other bedrooms, and storage. He wants the piano setup upstairs just to the right of the stairs. So, as you came up the stairs, you would see the piano. We get it up there and set it up. All good, so we thought Two days later the salesman gets a call from the guy very upset that the underneath of the piano isn’t painted like the rest of the piano. Well, the piano he ordered was a gloss black finish. The underneath of most pianos is either left unfinished OR have a clear protective varnish painted on them. The salesman explained that no piano comes with that and in his twenty years of selling pianos, no one has brought it up. The customer was adamant that he wanted the underside exactly like the top because he could see underneath the piano when he walked up his stairs. The salesman explained they could probably find someone, outside the company, who could do that but it would cost multiple times what he paid for the piano in the first place as wood would need to be cut, fitted, finished and then painted to match. Of course, he said no. So, they came up with a compromise. We would come get the piano, bring it to our refinishing facility 300 miles away and have the underneath painted black. So, we spent a full day hauling the piano out of his house and driving it to the refinishing facility. Two weeks later we spent another full day going to get it at the facility and bringing it back to the guy. The salesman was so pissed he told us not to say a single word to the guy and just be polite if he asked questions. He kept trying to explain why the piano should have been painted etc. Finally, after hearing this for almost an hour that it took us to set it up AGAIN, I said “Sir, it’s like complaining the underside of your car doesn’t match the paint on the top. No one is going to see it unless you are upside down or park it at the top of some stairs and even then most people won’t notice it.”
you say about the underside of the car not matching the top..... i have legit seen someone with a lance cruiser 70 series in sandy taupe who had the whole chassis of the car also painted in sandy taupe.....
There are some VERY-VERY crazy people on the planet......
Might have been tempting to insist the sound comes from the resonance of the unpainted timber. If you paint it, it'll sound like a plastic box.
I have this exact problem with my dinning table which a nice oak one, but the underside is white, as it is a housing for the build-in extension. Now my wife, my wifes mother and others are complaining that in our newly bought home you can see the white underside from the living room which is half a floor below and separted with glass railings.
@@goldreverre wanted to say the same, and the guy had a recording room...must make quality recordings with all the knowledge about instruments🙈
Eds “well I’m not” let his Georgia out
Since we're again reminiscing on dealership days... Surely Kimmy has been paroled by now?
We're working on it. May be later this year.
@@VINwiki #FreeKimmy! 😂
please don't work too hard lol@@VINwiki
Why do I feel like she won’t be filmed at Ed’s house though. 😂
I came to ask the same thing and yes #FreeKimmy
Cannot in my wildest dreams ever see myself having "working relationship" with a lamborghini salesman.
Ed, you are a natural storyteller sir. I could listen to you recount your experiences all day.
These were some rough deals.
the best stories though
Which is why most "super car" buyers shouldn't be on the road driving a Beetle with an automatic....
Ed, whatever happened to Kimi, still want to hear an interview 😀
Further proof as to why you should never give out special exceptions in any customer service scenario. Those are the worst kinds of people and it will always bite you in the end. Wow, what wild stories.
"and he looks at me and says: I am invincible." Omfg 😂😂😂😂
Some of these stories aren't just for exotic buyers. I'm a RECON manager at a large dealership and the whole "finding flaws after the deal is made" gave me flashbacks. Haha
What is RECON? I'm looking into getting into car sales as a transition due to the possibilities for a larger income to pay off some debts. My fiance's father is a lifelong salesman at Lexus and always says it's great and terrible at the same time. I'm currently making $80K/yr salary, so what's the probability of making over that as a salesman going in "fresh"?
@@GoldenEagleXTND RECON is the group of techs and managers that get vehicles prepped for the lot and for sale. New and Used cars in our case. I started in sales way back in '99. For me it was feast or famine. I would have a great month and then a dismal month. Some people just have that "thing" though were people buy from them and say yes. Lots of car salespeople make great money. Lots starve out in the first few months too. For me the service dept seemed more stable. So I transitioned to being a service write years ago and grew into this position. Good luck!
@@GoldenEagleXTNDplease DO NOT do it. I sold cars for as many years as I could tolerate and listening to these stories from Ed just damn near gave me PTSD. The whole industry is terrible. Without typing out a huge page I would say if you’re already making 80k, a car sales job is a terrible idea 😅
That young kid from Boston told us all he made money off of a “fart”app when apps were just getting popular. That sv was everywhere in Boston.
that does sound familiar.
Sounds like B.C.@@EdBolian
Was that the SV parked on Comm Ave in front of the Atrium on Commonwealth??? Where Brighton Ave splits from Comm Ave???
@@CTAjunior lol i spotted the lambo on comm ave yes but I don’t know if it was in front of the atrium. He pulled up to a bar I used to go to there but I forgot the name. He was always with some huge dude, almost like his personal security guard. Weird.
I’m about to DIE!! 😂 Ed’s always eloquent and entertaining 👍🏼 Gotta get that last guy in for some crazy car stories.
Classic sales stories. The buyers who are 100 miles upside down on their trade-in are all the same. I had a guy trading in a $9,000 Avalanche that he’d just bought for 16k. When I showed him the NADA book value I thought he might cry.
Trucks are trucks and can be sold well over what they're actually worth. I'm willing to bet you could have bought it for 9k and sold it for a profit still.
“WELL I’M NOT” 😂😂 new favorite Ed quote
Ed: Ok, so what sort of car were you looking to get into today, and what's your budget? Chinese Business Dad: I mean its one banana, what could it cost? 10 dollars?
Ed's such a terrific story-teller. Many times I wish I'd have visited Lambo Atlanta back in the day and encountered him. I'll bet he was the nicest guy.
During my car sales career I was the ISD at a Cadillac dealer. A customer came in with a Rolls wanting to trade it in for an Escalade Platinum. We put 155k number on it, but he owed 285k!!!
I remember when I had my dealership a lady bought a car from me. She never changed the oil or did any type of maintenance to it. She owned it for a year and said she was taking me to court. Yeah that didn’t work out well for her 😂
These Ed dealership stories are my favorite
Ed never tells a bad story and this was no exception.
Thanks Ed, all the stories prove, doesn't matter if a person has great credit, a big bank account or crap credit a small or and no bank account, car business is and always been crazy and full of stories! Doesn't matter high end or very inexpensive!
Real OGs of the channel remember all of these stories
God, the guy telling Ed he's invincible always makes me die laughing 29:45
Environmentalists are the worst. I idle my boats 96 2 stroke outboard just to piss them off.
When Ed has a guest, the guest talks to Ed in the videos. When Ed has Ed on as a guest, Who is Ed talking to ?
To our souls 😂
Omg that's deep
Future Ed.
@@TheBrokenLife Past Ed is working the camera :-)
@@lgstron Correct. Present Ed _was_ giving the interview. Future Ed, of the future, may even be reading these comments... 😳
Most of those I had heard Ed tell in other VINwiki videos but it was fun to hear them again.
I feel like a kid gathering around the fire to hear bed time car stories.
If you have to remove a Lamborghini off your insurance for a month, then you can’t afford the car
“I…am invincible!” My God I lost it! Ed, I love you 😂
The thing about good or bad customers…car dealers screw them all…
Ed! Can you please start voicework 😂 like read books for storytel or something like that. Thanks much appreciated ❤
I love Ed's storytelling terrific, narrator and story teller I can listen to his stories all day
I worked at a Volvo Toyota store in the '70's my test drives were rough but not that bad.
A return to glory! I love this episode a bit more than other recent offerings.
OMFG the Maserati crashing into a Jaguar with no driver LOLOLOLOL
Whoever edits the videos, kept showing Gallardo's when talking about F430. Fired!
Great stories. Thanks for the video.
Such great narration! I really enjoyed listening to these stories!
Actually, my wife played tennis once and I work for Geek Squad at the local Best Buy. Sorry about that with the yellow Lambo. I needed to blow off some steam.
You can see the guy is a salesman the way he talks, feels very good to listen to him and he doesn't stumble over his words. Even though I don't understand the topic, it was very informative and I couldn't stop listening.
Those were the best 31 minutes of my day, thanks Ed I needed that 🥰
Love seeing and listening to you Ed, great stories
As an auto mechanic I'm never letting customer drive during a road test again. Too many times get put into uncomfortable situations. Never had a crazy experience like you had though! I AM INVINCIBLE!
You can never run out of stories about stupid supercar buyers. It's a sea of morons. It's just a small faction of owners that actually deserve them and are responsible enough to handle one.
Great video, and first one of yours I have watched. You do a great job.. Thanks !
That first story made me want to pull my hair out and scream my lungs out.
19:52 I know some people like loud colors in the interior of their supercars, but that orange and cream interior looks absolutely hideous. It doesn't even match the shade of orange on the exterior.
It's pretty nice, that was Hoovie's car
So good. OG VINWiki story time. Love it. Thanks Ed!
Jesus Christ I remember when “WHAT ARE YOU DOING? ARREST THIS GUY” was a cold intro
Love re hearing these story’s such nostalgia
Some great stories. Love the last one, "I'm invincible!" HAHA
Easy to understand fast talker ed .... exciting stories.... Love your collection man
Thanks Ed! Very enjoyable.
I have a weird MO about this channel, i leave it unwatched for a couple of months, just so i can binge watch every episode uploaded since. Love it!
Great stories, glad you survived that last one!
Very Nice Story ED! But around 17:20 where you started talking about Chinese Customers. I have a reason why they think it’s a higher price. See A Camry in Certain Countries in Asia cost the same price as a Brand-New Q7,X7,GLE over here. So when they generally see a GLE over there. There minds are automatically indicating a very expensive Car! Owning a Car in Asia (China,Vietnam and the lower class Countries) Is seen as a rich person. A Guy in a Brand-New Camry is seen as a wealthy Man.
The Chinese students at my state university never drove a car that cost less than $60,000. They loved their Mercedes-Benzes and BMWs, Porsche Cayennes and Macans, and the occasional Maserati or Range Rover or muscle car. One guy had a Grand Cherokee SRT8. They never drove American or Japanese luxury cars and they never drove trucks, not even a Ford Raptor. And the rest of us were just scraping by in our beaters and hand-me-downs. The Chinese students lived in the best townhouses, had the latest tech, and dressed expensively (though not well).
You are correct, in Vietnam you basically add 115% onto the price you pay in North America for Cars, Motorcycles,and many other big ticket items. China can be up to 300% depending on the vehicle, and its point of origin.
Totally enjoyed this 😊
Great video. I love these stories
I worked at a computer shop. I though I saw some crazy people but the last one made me realise my luck. And now I want to work at a rental premium car company lol
it's amazing that Ed can retell the Lamborghini test drive story that I've heard b4 and its just as hilarious if not moreso than the original!😂
The guy hiding his lambos from his wife story is insane 😂
I did that with motorcycles. My ex-wife was a biich. No, they were not 20k H-Ds. The fiirst one was a '77 Honda for 1800 USD. I kept it at my homeboy's equipment yard for a year. The headache of battling with her motivated me. Should have divorced her with the first moto.
I've heard most of em but hearing these stories again makes me laugh. Gr8 show ✌️
Word to the wise, if you are ever in a car and hear the driver say "watch this," tuck and roll, just tuck and roll.
Ed is such an amazing story teller 👌🏼
Ed is an awesome story teller.
I remember these. Core thing I learned is that Ed had pushover managers
listening to the stories of buyer’s remorse did remind me of my own experience last year with a new GTI (not an exotic I know). It was the sixth new car purchase of my lifetime, the others I had zero remorse, this one I had buyer’s remorse big-time, traded in a 2018 for a 2024 and thought I had made a huge mistake the night I drove it home. I was miserable! called the next day and asked to return it, dealer refused of course. within a week I realized it was a great car and within a month I knew it was one of the best purchases I ever made.
Ed goes above and beyond as a salesman. Holy cow I'd pay to have a salesman like him.
This is what made VinWiki great. Thanks Ed, enjoyed this one.
Man I Love These Stories Ed🎉❤
“I believe very much in spiritual warfare” 😂😂 lmfao
Next time I buy a car, Ed, you got to come with me brother. Columbus Ga, not too far away.
More of these Ed!
Never a dull moment
Ed you need 2 do more videos 🙏..luv the show
Funny how somebody who buys a car, then forgets the parking brake, crashes into another dealership car, thinks he can return it. THAT is crazy how delusional and entitled some ppl can be!!
Had family who worked for Aston Martin as a painter a while back. You'd be surprised how many imperfections and bits of filler there is in them, fresh off the line!
Cancel your insurance when your out of town??!?!? That is the DUMBEST THING YOU CAN DO!!!! Holy crap, that opens you up to all kinds of issues and possible issues... Such as this... "I forgot to turn insurance back on because i was so excitted to drive it when i got back home" Wow... just wow...
I can imagine why he did it. I would speculate that the Insurance for a 20 yr old Male Chinese driver, who just bought his first car, and it's a Lambo, would be mortgage level.
@@sommebuddy if you can afford the car, you should be able to afford the insurance. And he's going on a month vacation? I'm sure he can afford that relatively small bill, lol. That's not even legal in places like here in Arizona. You can not have any lapse of insurance. If you do, even you canceling it/putting it on snooze for a month, the MVD pulls your registration and puts a no registration on your car. If you put it back on, you will need an SR22 to get your registration renewed which raises your insurance rates.
Either way, for the Chinese these cars are a bargain here...A 150k Lambo in the US is almost 300k in China....and there are thousands of them there.@@MikeHarris1984
Some good ones, the last one takes the cake though.
Somehow These exotic cars always go to people who deserve them the least
I can listen do Ed Bolian for hours. You, Sir, have the beautiful gift of gab.
Great stories and video. I'm in Ohio in that reminds me the 308 I owned for a few years had the Ferrari of Atlanta dealer license plate holder when I had it. The awesome thing is I got the custom license plate that simply said Ferrari and kept it. I never even put it on the car because I had a temp tag on the car and eventually sold it.
Last looked at Ed and thought “hold my beer” 😂😂😂😂😂
Love Ed’s stories!
Didn't expect to watch this whole video... But here I am! Good stuff.
This episode's theme seemed to be, if you are upside down in an expensive car, let's get you into this shiny Aston Martin!
last tale... maybe the heavily armed salesman isn't so paranoid after-all.
It is never a bad morning when you get to listen to an Ed story. Thank you! The spiritual warfare comment was fantastically priceless!
i've been guilty of going to dealerships to testdrive cars with zero intention of buying them before 😌 it used to be a hobby i shared with my cousin. but we never went to luxury dealerships. only normal stuff. the most expensive car we tested was probably a bmw x1 but we never pushed or anything, i drove the cars like an grandma, only to get a feel for it.
Love these crazy stories
Great stories as usual Ed! 👏
I had a customer come in with his wife. At the time I was at BMW. They ended up buying an X5 35 for him and an M4 for his wife bc she was the car person in the family. Exactly 7 days later they came back and I thought well maybe the just need some help or have some questions. Nope, she loved his X5 and had seen that we now had a new X5M with $112K MSRP. Having just bought the M4 she surprisingly understood it would still with 100-200 miles now be a CPO but their condition was that they didn’t want their combined payment for both vehicles to be over $3000 per month. Met them smack dab in the middle at $3115ish if memory serves correctly. Fortunately they were both physicians so were able to swing the deal and make it work for themselves. Unfortunately it was a lease and I’m sorry, I’ve sold numerous leases I felt made more sense for customers that trade often but this wasn’t them, she’d said they keep their cars, but it was the only way to make it work. Hope she enjoyed it 😂
'I believe very much in spiritual warfare.' ahhahaha