On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:04:30AM -0600, William Robb wrote:
> We might go to Best Buy on the weekend so that I can grace his salesman with
> my most charming and best behaved self.
I really despair of salesmen.
I'm in the process of beginning to shop for a new car. One option
is a BMW Z4, but they get pretty expensive. So I registered with
BMW to be notified by email if a "certified pre-owned" Z4 with the
particular rare set of options that I want comes on the market.
Unfortunately this means that BMW have my email address, and pass
it on to my local BMW dealer. I wasn't too bothered by this, because
I've been in that dealership, and they are a very low-pressure outfit.
Apparently this doesn't seem to apply to their eMail contact. Not
only did I get email from him as soon as he saw I was interested in
Z4s, trying to get me to come in and look at the cars he had on the lot
(none of which were anywhere close to my pre-owned search criteria),
but when I explained this to him, and told him what I was looking for,
I got email back telling me I didn't want to look for those options,
but would be better off changing my criteria.
I'm going to pay another visit to the dealership, and let the sales
manager know:
1) How much I appreciate their low-pressure showroom staff
2) Just how much I dislike having some arrogant little twit
telling me I don't know what I want, and to instead switch
to buying what he happens to have on the lot.
