Best Sale (or at least top 3)

I was in a meeting today and we started talking about sales experiences. One of the guys asked me what my greatest sales story was. "There are so many..." I protested. Finally, they got me to tell it.

I was working for Hilti at the time, working in the Tulsa headquarters. I was working late making outbound calls and came across a number that had never been contacted. I called with little expectation of an answer- but, that's always when they pick up the phone.

It was a construction manager, and he was in a bind. He needed a huge nail and no one had been able to find it. Searching the catalog I found it, as well as the thirteen boxes needed to cover his order.  These were really giant nails that never sold, and a single box was well over $600.  So, I had to ask.

"What in the world are you building?'

He laughed.  I'll never believe him, he kept saying.  I explained there was nothing in the construction world that could surprise me, I'd heard it all.  

"An ark.  Specially Noah's Ark."

I laugh. Silence.

"Wait, you are really building Noah's Ark?" Come to find out, they were a construction crew for a movie - Evan Almighty.  Most of the boat was VGI, but some of it actually had to be built.

So I sold the nails to build Noah's (Evan's) Ark.  Pretty cool resume attachment.