What is the craziest sale you've ever made?
Tommy Mello
Growing A1 Garage from $200M to $1B | Inc. Magazine Columnist | Apple Top 50 Podcast Host
Are Threesomes Suppose to happen in garage doors? HMMMM One oridnary day in Tempe AZ me and my old business partner were running our normal garage door repair jobs. We were on the third call and it was obvious when we pulled up that the torsion spring was broke because the cable had slipped to the outside of the garage door. We rank the door bell and there lied a lady in her mid to late thirties staring heavily at the both of us… We looked at eachother and smiled - wondering what the hell was going on (Ashton are we being punked) - She was dressed very provacatively to say the least.
After we told her what she needed and started the work she asked us if we needed anything… We needed water - it was a hot day in Arizona and the garage had to be 100 degrees or more. She grabbed ice water for us and just stayed out there and talked to us the whole time.
This was the last call of the day and we just happened to be self employed. She offered us a beer - while in deep conversation with both of us :) WE said “what the hell” and went for it. A few beers later we were inside and just BSing about anything and everything.
Now was the time when things started to get weird… She went and put her bathing suit on and decided she was going to go swimming and wanted us to go as well hahahah
At the time I remember thinking this was the strangest call of all time. My business partner Gabe decided he was going to take her up on the offer… I was just going to wait there until they were all swimmed out. But it didn’t go down like that - she started signaling me to join as she took her top off. At this point things were just a little to crazy for me - so I told Gabe to enjoy and I left. He was my best friend and that was just too weird. He ended up seeing her for a few months and things were always strange between us - especially when she would smile at me and wink as if we back in the pool on that hot summer day. Anyways, I’ll never forget it and it was a very Crazy SALE.