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- From: jitloke@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Jit-Loke Lim)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Ford kicked my ass in court
- Message-ID: <7665@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:50:34 GMT
- References: <PHILG.92Nov18112615@zug.ai.mit.edu> <1992Nov18.220428.1174@ampex.com>
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- In article <1992Nov18.220428.1174@ampex.com> davel@ampex.com (Dave Larkins) writes:
- [rest of letter to Ford deleted for brevity]
- > I realize that I have very little power to demand a rebuttal of
- >these quality claims, but the avenues at my disposal are several. In
- >the near future, I intend to mail a copy of this letter to several large
- >newspapers, automobile magazines and TV stations, along with
- >posting it to a worldwide computer network that is accessed by
- >millions of potential Ford customers, in the hope that someone may
- >question the claims of your media campaign and re-evaluate their
- >purchasing decisions. I also require that you arrange for a reputable
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- In light of this posting and several others, I have to ask the question:How
- expensive can it be to give each unhappy customer a new car? 10K(cost) for
- a Taurus? I'd think it'd be a lot cheaper than paying an attorney $x/hour
- to fight your clients. I mean, after all, people buy Ford because they want to,
- they CHOSE Ford over others. Plus it would provide all kinds of free publicity
- like Saturn is getting instead of all this bad rap. That's gotta be worth
- something. Ford makes a Quality is Job 1 car. They should easily be able to
- back it up with a "guaranteed quality or a new car offer". Anyone who can afford
- to buy a new Ford is probably not gonna buy a Ford and abuse this guarantee
- should it exist. Ford profits are not exactly remarkable and a guarantee like
- that would sure calm buyer anxieties about quality and generate tons of
- publicity. But on the other hand, I understand next to nothing about marketing
- and I sure as hell don't grasp legalese.
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