We were toying with the possibility of getting a different car. West found one 45 minutes away that had the natural gas conversion on it, which intrigues us. So after unloading all the lumber, we headed out to see the car.
We pulled up to the house and I was immediatley put off. There were huge scratches in the paint down the side. On both sides.
The guy had the price jacked up $2500 more than anyone else we'd looked at, but he had natural gas so we were willing to look at it. Come to find out the natural gas didn't acutally work. But he kept insisting that he had a quote of what it would cost to get it fixed. We still took it for a test drive just because I hate the soft suspension on our car and West wanted me to feel how this one rode to see if I even liked it.
We got in and it just felt... grimey. And then I saw it.
We get out and tell the man that we're probably not interested. The man, of course got defensive. West continues in bluntness that he has the price so much higher than anyone else for a feature that doesn't even work and the thing is completely dinged up.
I did the only thing I could think of, smiled, waved, and very sweetly said, "but thank you so much."
After that we looked at one more car (that ended up needing a few too many "small" repairs) and as we were leaving she asked that we please let her know if we decided we weren't interested. She would rather us call her and tell her no than leave her hanging.
So today we decided that getting a new car probably wasn't something that we're going to do right now. West, trying to do the nice thing, called the lady to tell her we weren't going to pursue it any farther. And as he tells this to her I hear her response from the phone, "yeah we figured as much yesterday."
Wait, what? We'd been interested enough yesterday...
West continues to say that there was just too many repairs and we'd "found a different one". Her responses are still "off" and then he realizes... he'd called the number for the first car we'd looked at, not the second...
So West not only gets very blunt with the defensive guy yesterday, but then calls up his wife and does it again today.
2 comments:
yikes!! too bad he didn't know initially that that's who he had called b/c then he could have said something about the booger! hehehehehe
how awkward! the people probably thought West was crazy or suffering from memory loss problems. Good laughs, though. We had our car detailed before we tried to sell it. I don't want anyone seeing my boogers.
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