Since the twins are both at the same university, we bought them a car to share a few months back.
Yesterday we received a letter from the dealer's accounting department, saying they overcharged us in error, along with a check for the amount.
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I am not making this up.
That's why it pays to negotiate.
ReplyDelete"I'm sorry, Johnson, but we found a discrepancy in your figures. I'm afraid you don't win this month's sales contest after all."
ReplyDeleteWow, that's as much as our entire advertising budget for the Avengers campus!
ReplyDeleteDon't give it to the kids. They'll just go on a wild spending spree with that check. Probably cost the dealership $50 in salary and supply to send that check.
ReplyDeleteBut what about the interest?
ReplyDeleteDon't spend it all in one place!
ReplyDeletetake it to bank, demand large bills
ReplyDeleteYou are going to be thankful you got it when it comes time to payoff your kids student loans, Mr. Big Talking Co Signer.
ReplyDeleteWho said there's no such thing as an honest car dealer?
ReplyDeleteI got a check for that same amount way back in the 60's from Allied Radio (Knight Kits). It was from a mail-in order (pre-Internet) for some electronic device I had ordered from their catalog (paper). I framed it and put it on my bedroom wall.
ReplyDeleteLater, my father told me the right thing to do was to cash it so Allied's books would balance. Such was his ethics system. I went to the bank and embarrassingly cashed it.
We are truly doomed.
ReplyDeleteWe used to call the operator from a payphone and tell them we lost our dime. The phone company mailed a check for ten cents. It's exactly what the stamp cost too.
ReplyDeleteSince each penny actually contains 2¢ worth of metal, we've found that it's more economical to phase them out and replace them with checks. This will also help us use up America's backlog of checks, since nobody uses checks anymore.
ReplyDeleteLOL here... I received a check from the Gov't -- $1.27 -- a refund for overpayment of taxes. It made for some great conversations when people came to visit. I didn't cash it and a few weeks later, I received a letter from he Gov't, asking if I had received the check. I decided I'd better cash it. The cost of the whole situation was far more than the amount they owed me. Why couldn't they just put it on my account--Lord knows I'll owe them again NEXT year!
ReplyDeleteIt's like the time we got a letter from the IRS stating that we were 8 cents short in our tax payment, which they magnanimously waived. Then they sent us a 56-cent letter to tell us about it.
ReplyDeleteyou can't reason with a pre-programmed algorithm and no one paid the programmers extra to drop out insignificant amounts.
ReplyDeleteA check? What century is that from?
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