Originally Posted by
digibud
Agreed that selling a badly fitting bike is the most common rip off followed by selling a hard riding racing bike to somebody that needs a more upright endurance bike. Now there are more endurance type road bikes but that hasn't always been true and a lot of people get steered into whatever is on the floor. Understandable but sad.
SWIS (Sell What's In Stock) is a common salesman mantra, 'specially those not in it for the long-term. Selling something not in stock is guaranteed to be more time and effort put in to the sale, whereas SWIS
could mean that the customer is out of your hair, allowing you to work on the next person... of course, it could come back to bite you in the ass, too...