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- Path: sparky!uunet!news.tek.com!shaman!frip!andrew
- From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Ford kicked my ass in court
- Message-ID: <2182@shaman.wv.tek.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 01:19:05 GMT
- References: <PHILG.92Nov18112615@zug.ai.mit.edu> <1992Nov18.220428.1174@ampex.com>
- Sender: news@shaman.wv.tek.com
- Reply-To: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com
- Organization: Tektronix Color Printers, Wilsonville, Oregon
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- When you write a letter of complaint to a big corporate entity, you're
- a lot more likely to get an answer, and maybe some real action, if you
- keep it short. Don't tell your life story, don't berate the BCE for
- not living up to their ads, don't use lots of flowery adjectives.
- Spend one short paragraph describing the problem, one short paragraph
- telling what remedy you want (just one remedy, don't give them multiple
- choices), and send it off. The BCE flunky that has to read these
- things wants to get the gist of your message in thirty seconds. If it
- takes much longer than that, your letter will get shuffled to the
- bottom of a tall pile of similar letters.
-
- This note was 13,000 words long -- four pages in 10-point type. It may
- be awhile before anybody at Ford reads it.
-
- (If you're writing a letter for the record before you go to court, that
- of course is another matter.)
-
- -=- Andrew Klossner (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
- (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
-