It is a salesman's job to sell things, I know and do understand this. I just think that you should show a customer everything you have to offer, and deliver all the information that you can about each product, and let the customer decide what they want for themselves w/o being pushed either way.

There could be a lot of factors behind why he made the presentation, I just thought it was far too biased and I don't agree with biased salesmanship.

Wasn't being hypersensitive about him not pushing that I think is a better truck. I thought I covered that my mentioning that I wasn't trying to start any huge discussion about what product was better. I brought up the fact that I own a Savage because I knew what some of the things he was saying about them was wrong based on that. I was mentioning giving everything in a particular class an equal showing- because t's what I would do if I was behind the counter. Because as a consumer, if I am about to make a purchase for decent chunk of change I want to know everything I can about what I'm going to buy. I want to know it's strengths, weaknesses, known issues, ease of maintenance, construction quality, parts availability etc. etc.

If I got sold something and found out about certain things about it later, that I didn't like (and could have been told about by the salesman) I'd be irked. Granted as a consumer I would be partially to blame for not doing my homework, but you can also point the finger at the guy who is supposed to be a subject matter expert- Which is what newcomers to the hobby will see the guy at the LHS as being- for not disclosing all the facts.