1A person who inspects vehicles for sale with no intention of buying.
car sales people are familiar with tyre kickers
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I didn't tell him to scram about the car, pegging him squarely as a tyre kicker.
He's just like the ubiquitous tyre kicker who is looking for a car but with a complete lack of enthusiasm.
There is the perennial tyre kicker who wastes your sales staff's time.
Car sales people are familiar with "tyre kickers"; those people who come to a showroom, feel the leather seats, ask to start the engine and start feeling if the tyres have enough pressure.
He was a tyre kicker, a time-wasting pauper who when he sees a cart for sale walks around it kicking the steel tyres as though he has the necessary.
Tyre kickers and semi skilled recovery vehicle drivers, not fully trained, qualified mechanics.
The vendor will also see that you are a serious potential purchaser, and not just a clueless tyre kicker.
He talks about the customer as being a tyre kicker and not being qualified to purchase a car from him.
1.1A time-waster.
when we advertise through the normal job sites we tend to end up with lots of tyre kickers
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I have had whispers around publishers that the alleged asking price is $2-3.5 million as a tyre-kicker expression of "interest".
I'm not a fan of tyre kickers.
He loitered in the corridor outside, a tyre-kicker awaiting his turn in front of the magistrates.
But the parade of private equity tyre kickers moved on.
In gem shops I am revealed as a total tyre-kicker in the consumption race and I come away empty-handed.
They used to have a surefire way of sorting out the tyre kickers.
With the rabble running the show of course Melbourne are attracting has beens and tyre kickers.
I'm a cyber tyre-kicker so I was actively looking and it came up on Trade Me.
Too busy for tyre kickers and unreliable workers.
I expect the administrators will talk to plenty of tyre kickers.