Last July (maybe August) I bought an older, used 4×4 from a local, well-known car dealer. They knew I was on a budget and we haggled the price a bit. There’s more to the story (they kept trying to get me to use my cash for the outright purchase of a used car instead as a down payment on a new car… if I WANTED a new car and a hole to dump money into, then I’d have asked for it.)

Anyway, so I buy the car, drive it off the lot, runs fine. Everything is pretty much as I expect it. But why the hell did they want my email address before they’d hand me the key?

A week later… and every week since, I found out why: they keep sending me an email every single week asking me if I’m satisfied with my car and whether I’d thought about buying a new or used car from them… complete with glamour shots of their current inventory.

Really?

I mean, the way they’re carrying on, it’s as if their whole fucking economy is completely dependent upon my buying another goddamned vehicle.

Is it really up to me?

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It occurs to me that they owe me a free “detail” of my used car every three months. Maybe I should take advantage of that… except for the fact that I’d have to wait around for it to be done and tolerate their continuous barrage of sales tactics.