{"id":4862,"date":"2019-02-04T12:40:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=4862"},"modified":"2019-02-04T12:40:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:40:37","slug":"playing-the-sympathy-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/playing-the-sympathy-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing the Sympathy Card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cI just had hernia surgery and I\u2019m just trying to pay some\nbills.\u201d That is what pushed me over the edge and made me pull out my wallet.\nFirst let me give you the backstory on this memorial sales experience. I was at\nthe Canfield fair when my brother in law pointed at me and told this man I was\nthe guy he was looking for. The man came up to me and asked if I drove that\ndirty white truck parked over there. I should have just said no, but my naive\nself answered him with the truth and said yes. He then proceeded to tell me\nthat he noticed that the truck had a lot of bugs smashed on the grill and tar\nmarks behind the wheels and that he had just the product to clean it. I really\ndidn\u2019t want to talk to him, but he insisted that after a quick demonstration I\nwould want what he was selling. We walked over to the truck and he pulled out\nthis mystery spray bottle and began to apply this clear liquid to my grill and\nwith one wipe the bugs were gone. Now, somewhat intrigued I asked a few\nquestions about this mystery product. He of course went into his lengthy speech\nof how it\u2019s environmentally friendly and made from natural ingredients, and\njust to prove his point he even drank some. By now I was ready to part ways\nwith this salesman and so I started to inch away. He picked up on this and went\ninto his \u201cthis week only pricing\u201d and how good of a deal this was. One bottle\nthat normally cost $40 was now only $20. I was still not interested and was trying\nto walk away, but he wasn\u2019t having that. He tried another offer and another,\nbut I still wasn\u2019t buying. Finally, he pulled out his ace in the hole if you\nwill. He pulled up his shirt and said he just had hernia surgery and needs to\nmake some sales so he can pay his bills. I of course just wanted to get out of\nthere so I guess you can say he won, and I now have a lifetime supply of this\ncleaning product in unlabeled white jugs. On the plus side it actually does a\npretty good job at removing tar marks and bugs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI just had hernia surgery and I\u2019m just trying to pay some bills.\u201d That is what pushed me over the edge and made me pull out my wallet. First let me give you the backstory on this memorial sales experience. I was at the Canfield fair when my brother in law pointed at me and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4863,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions\/4863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}