I did business down there in the late 90s from an office in Pompano Beach. There was a boatload of business in Dade County we never saw, so the company’s owner wanted me to go down there and try and get some of it - mostly government/municipal stuff.
I called on a purchasing guy in Dade County government. He laughed at me when I said we wanted to do business with the County. He pretty much told me that the likelihood of gringos like me doing business there would never happen. Even if we tried to buy the business (lowball) they would throw us out because we didn’t have a business presence in the County. He went so far as to congratulate me for having the biggest pair of cohones he had ever seen on a gringo for coming in and thinking we could do business there. So I had that going for me… It’s so bad that our company’s territory was the whole state of Florida except Dade County. There was a Cuban refugee that owned a company in Miami who was our distributor there, and that’s the only territory he had. That gives you some idea of how completely different the economy and culture is down there. I’m sure it hasn’t changed. -D > On Jun 30, 2017, at 9:16 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Oh that's what I figured. The guy down there running it now said he had a > bunch of dealers he never goes to because they don't speak English so his > Spanish speaking reps handle them. > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
