OK, as most of you know one thing I have very little of is spare time. Imagine my frustration ove rhow I spent my one full day off this week: Sunday.
I’m still searching for a car. I had a test drive organised yesterday for an MG ZR, though the dealer didn’t have any diesels which didn’t help as that’s what I want. Not that it mattered. My afternoon went like this:
12:55 arrived for 13:00 appointment
13:10 asked to wait 10-15 mins as salesman was busy
13:30 asked to wait 10-15 mins as salesman was busy
13:55 got in car and went home
Guess I won’t be buying a car from there then… I am seriously considering dropping them a letter and billing them for my time. Hmm.
I got a call through from the Ford drivers’ club as well. They’ve booked me in for a 3-day test drive of the Focus Zetec 1.6D. In the last week of April. Great.
I honestly think by the time I get sorted, I’ll be having to have my driver’s license renewed as I’ll be too old to drive on my current one.
Add to that the fact that I got to work this morning and an email popped in reminding me of the Sports and Social bowling at Xscape in Castleford tonight. Argh. I’d plumb forgotten. I’d intended on spending an hour or so in the office after hours doing some coursework where I couldn’t be disturbed.
At 5:30 I packed up and drove like hell to get home, changed, feed the cat and shoot off to Castleford. Amazingly, I made it for 6:30 dot on – start time. Only I couldn’t find anyone. All the lanes had families or kids on, apart from one which was all guys in shirts.
I asked one if this was the SSP party and, sadly, no it wasn’t. But – get this – his son works for SSP! One quick phone call home didn’t help, though. The lad knew about the night but wasn’t involved in it and had no details for the guy organising it.
I waited till just after 7 and didn’t see a single person from the company so I ****** off home. What a waste of a ******* evening. And now I waste more of it telling you lot about it. I should know better.
Anni – dealership in the first instance, head office next. See the new post above!
Echo – yup, they do get paid on commission. The guy I was meant to be dealing with was in the process of getting quotes for another customer, hence ignoring me. Seems like a good excuse to him… not to me, though.
Bowling – no idea what happened. I spoke to the guy who organised it today and he swears they were there. Next time, we swap phone numbers…
Do the car salemen get paid on commission, based on their sales ? Seems to me they’d want to make you happy – not leave you waiting. When you send the bill for your time ? Be sure to add on fees for pain and suffering. You were traumatized by the whole event weren’t you ? **grins widely**
Given that this week is when the new number plates arrive, you probably chose the wrong week to fulfil a car order.
Look on the bright side, you’re deciding what expensive plush new car to buy. Diddums.
I would write to the head office, not just that salesroom – let them know how crap they are.
Bugger about the bowling – what actually happened? Did you get the date wrong, or place worng, or did they just cancel it and not bother telling people? Still, at least you got your time to do your coursework…… :p