Ownership Case Study

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Imagine this, you are looking to buy a used car. You go to a car dealership that is very popular. They show you a car that you really like and you tell them that you are very interested, you just want to evaluate the alternatives first. You decide to go to an another car dealership, but this time it is a dealership that just started business. This dealership shows you a car very similar to the car you liked at the other dealership, and on top of that, it is almost $10,000 cheaper. Immediately, you know that the dealership is giving you a good deal and without hesitation you buy the car. A few months later you begin to notice that the transmission is going out in your recently purchased car. You go to the dealership and complain, but they say that’s too bad, you bought the car as is. You are beyond frustrated. You tell your friends to never buy a car from that dealership. If the company continually screws over their customers, the business will be unethical and once others find out about the poor business, it will spread like a wild fire.
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It is up to you on how you want that relationship to be. Do you want to be a trustworthy businessmen or a lying businessman, because being a truthful businessman is not always easy. There will be times when business will be slow and you really need to make a sale, but it is important to remember that if you make bad business transactions, you will not only damage your reputation but also the company’s’. In my opinion it is smart to remain a truthful businessman because in the long run you will find more success than a lying salesman, because when it comes to being a lying salesman, you are only going to have immediate success which makes the future very risky. A lying businessman is also faced with another tough issue: covering up his lies. When a lying salesman lies to their customers, from that point on, the salesman will have to constantly lie to cover up his

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