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- From: leonglaw@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Lawrence LEONG)
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:34:24 GMT
- Subject: Re: Ford kicked my ass in court
- Message-ID: <53060098@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com>
- Organization: HP Singapore
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- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- References: <PHILG.92Nov18112615@zug.ai.mit.edu>
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- In rec.autos, jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost) writes:
-
- | andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) writes:
- | >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.)
- |
- | This is only partially true. If you find the name and address of
- | several real live people in responsible positions -- particularly if
- | one or more is the boss of the others -- and you send copies of the
- | letter to all of them (indicating names in a Cc: at the bottom),
- | you're likely to get a response.
-
- I second this. A mechanic at my local car distributor negligently broke some
- parts during repair (dumb ass found that a safety catch prevented the sunroof
- from being acciedntally removed. Instead of releasing the catch, just used
- brute force and broke the catch). Supervisor & service manager gave me a sob
- story of how little this guy earns, and that the cost of the part would be
- deducted from his pay etc and so I should just accept the loss. 2 letters and
- no solution. Wrote to the same managing director, sales manager and copied
- the service manager; immediate response within a week. Part repaired, no
- charge, profuse apologies. Try it.
-
- good luck
- lawrence
-
- ps. the car was not a Ford.
-
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