This exactly! Back in South Africa I had a friend who worked for a BMW dealership as a mechanic. The new E46 M3 had just been released in the country, think it might have been 2002. Anyway, he tells me that a youthful looking guy dressed very casually in torn jeans, t-shirt and jandals walked into the dealership and asked about this car and wanted a test-drive - long story short, they said they needed a 20% deposit to test drive. He said that he'd come back in a couple of hours.
Dismissing him as a dreamer, several hours later to their surprise, he returned. Paid the deposit in cash. Liked the car and paid for that in cash also and drove it away. A classic example if ever there was one of never judging a book by its cover.
I did wonder about this too...
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