"The price listed is the price you pay!" screams the latest TV advertising for an American car maker.
How quaint! After 25 years of already BEING DEAD, American car makers are finally deciding to sell cars like any other commodity, instead of perpetuating the cult of dishonest horse trading from 100 years ago.
Gee! Do they mean I can actually go to the car store and read the price tag without some high school drop-out sliming up beside me and leading off by asking how much I want to spend monthly on payments and whether I have a trade?
It seems so. So at the brink of bankruptcy caused by being out-classed, out-produced, out-marketed, outmoded, out of touch and out of contention, now and only now do I get the exalted privilege of seeing crap I don't want to buy with the actual prices on it?
If we ever wanted to be embarrassed as a nation in a world industry we once helped to create, no finer moment could occur as in these advertisements. Tell you what! You put the stickers on with the "actual prices, guys, but know that I still don't believe you, and I won't darken your door with even one nickel of my money. You can steal from the government for awhile before you end up going bankrupt anyhow, but you lost me and my family members forever as customers over 30 years ago. And don't blame the unions...each union member has had to put up with the same crap as all the rest of us whenever they wanted to buy the product they actually had to produce at the behest and "design" of greedy and out-of-touch management.
There is a special place in business hell for you, where you will have to drive mo-peds, live with perpetually Harley Earl, and drink only oil... in leaky wine glasses. Enjoy!
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