Cars, cars.
I have been shopping for a new car lately. Kim beat me to the punch, going so far as to purchase one of the models I'd been looking at. I hope I will get to see it soon. I'm sure it is very pretty. ... Yeah.
Anyway, I'm searching online for quotes, and I've found mixed results. Following is the text from an email one dealer sent me, edited for confidentiality:
Hello James,
This is C------ the internet manager for s--- kia and i wanted to first thank you for you interest in our product. Did you know that kia made the forst festiva way back when, i say that cause i see that you have an old escort to trade. I'ed love you help and i only have 2 base rios left one which one silver- they go really quick this time of year esp. with gas how it is :)!!! Are you going to be financing or paying cash??
Get back to me as soon as you can and let me know what all info i can help with. Ilook forward to meeting you and earning your business. We are right around the corner from you and i am here till 6pm this evening and 10-4 tomorrow. Do you happen to have a little bit of time when you could come look at one??
Let me know
Talk to you soon, thanks a million
C------ S---
This is how they present themselves? This is their sales pitch? I feel that I, as a consumer, deserve better grammar, spelling and diction than this. If this is their standard for how they manage their business, I want them not only to knock several thousands of dollars off their offer, but also to give me that person's job.
This message does not only concern me as a consumer, though. It makes me sad as a member of society to find that our educational system has this to offer. I will admit that I don't know anything about this person or his/her personal situation, but I now know something about the car dealership she works for: they find this to be an acceptable communique, to the point of having given its author actual money for writing it. It's one redeeming feature is that it includes information about the author's working hours, so that I can plan to avoid them, should I decide to look at a Kia.
In a related rant: while this is the most poorly written email I have ever received from anyone not attempting to spam me, it is by no means the only one that was sent to my inbox. I have been at this car shopping thing for a little while, and I've got it narrowed down pretty well to what I want. So I went to some websites, filled out some forms, and was a little frightened by how quickly and voluminously these people will hawk their wares. I received more email in a day of car shopping than I normally do in a week of normal living, and all of these people expected me to come in to take a test drive sometime this week. I think that I will try to come in next week to test drive things, and make a final decision at the end of the month. Based on the email response of these people, though, I think that I may have to drive my car until it dies, and then start walking, rather than enter an environment I cannot escape without screaming and light weaponry.
This is how they present themselves? This is their sales pitch? I feel that I, as a consumer, deserve better grammar, spelling and diction than this. If this is their standard for how they manage their business, I want them not only to knock several thousands of dollars off their offer, but also to give me that person's job.
This message does not only concern me as a consumer, though. It makes me sad as a member of society to find that our educational system has this to offer. I will admit that I don't know anything about this person or his/her personal situation, but I now know something about the car dealership she works for: they find this to be an acceptable communique, to the point of having given its author actual money for writing it. It's one redeeming feature is that it includes information about the author's working hours, so that I can plan to avoid them, should I decide to look at a Kia.
In a related rant: while this is the most poorly written email I have ever received from anyone not attempting to spam me, it is by no means the only one that was sent to my inbox. I have been at this car shopping thing for a little while, and I've got it narrowed down pretty well to what I want. So I went to some websites, filled out some forms, and was a little frightened by how quickly and voluminously these people will hawk their wares. I received more email in a day of car shopping than I normally do in a week of normal living, and all of these people expected me to come in to take a test drive sometime this week. I think that I will try to come in next week to test drive things, and make a final decision at the end of the month. Based on the email response of these people, though, I think that I may have to drive my car until it dies, and then start walking, rather than enter an environment I cannot escape without screaming and light weaponry.
posted by greytrench @ 8:55 AM
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