Post for Angelo D

I can't figure out why someone posts something that they feel is in
reason, and you get flamed for it. And it seems to happen mostly in
this group. I recently posted that I was surprised to have taken care
of recalls on my PT and a few months later, I'm notified that the car
is recalled. For what? For what I just had done.
My complaint was that there seems to be no communication between the
dealers and the company. Wow! Did I hear about it from the group.
I think you had/have a legitimate bictch. You spent this side of $50K
on a car with a lot of bells and whistles, it's constantly in the
shop, and you're supposed to drive basic transportation while making
payments on the top of the line model.
You know, drinking "bin" drinks and paying top shelf prices.
If you leased a high end vehicle from a major rental agency for, say, a
months lease, and something went wrong with it, you better believe
they'd give you an equivalent make/model to drive or if they couldn't
do this, they'd adjust your payment.
Many, many years ago I was told, "You're handled with kid's glove while
you're buying a car. Once you buy it, they don't want to see you again
until you're ready to buy another new car."
It's true, oh yeah, it's still true.

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, TomKan wrote:

> I can't figure out why someone posts something that they feel is in
> reason, and you get flamed for it.

You must be new. Welcome to Usenet. If you post something that's stupid,
willfully ignorant, thoughtless, halfassed or otherwise substandard in an
unmoderated group, you will get flamed -- very likely multiply flamed.
That is the way it is. If you do not like it, seek your internet
socialisation elsewhere.

Usenet regulars are kind of the biker gangs of the information
superhighway. We make a lot of noise, we crack wise and make jokes at each
other's expense, we pounce and claw at the slightest provocation, and
those who don't know us are probably usually offended or scared by us...

....but if you're broken down alongside the road, after we're done making
fun of your ride, your clothes, your license plate and your mother, we'll
probably help you fix it.

> And it seems to happen mostly in this group.

Out of the -- gosh, it must be what, four total groups you've got
experience with, then?

> I recently posted that I was surprised to have taken care of recalls on
> my PT and a few months later, I'm notified that the car is recalled. For
> what? For what I just had done.

You got flamed because it was a stupid and pointless complaint.

DS

I guess if the subject line of my post was:
Post for an Asshole,
you still would have been the first one to reply.

"Daniel J. Stern" > wrote in message
.umich.edu...
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, TomKan wrote:
>
(SNIP)
>
> Usenet regulars are kind of the biker gangs of the information
> superhighway. >
> DS

Don't lump all Usenet regulars into the category of 'biker gangs'.
Personally, I resent that implication as I am nothing like a biker (thank
goodness). There are many, many groups on Usenet which are made up of
well-spoken, knowledgeable contributors who don't use foul language, flames
or vicious attitudes.

It is obvious to me that the owner of the $42,000 trouble-maker has more
class than some of the people who responded to his post, but I don't think
those people are 'biker class'......just carried away a bit with the idiotic
macho insensitive image being a car buff seems to demand.

Yes, I would appreciate the help of the people on this group, but also
unprejudiced opinions as well. At least this wouldn't demonstrate a
narrow-mindedness which would obviously color their opinions.

By the way, when did you get coronated, King Stern?

Arthur

"Arthur" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Daniel J. Stern" > wrote in message
> .umich.edu...
>> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, TomKan wrote:
>>
> (SNIP)
>>
>> Usenet regulars are kind of the biker gangs of the information
>> superhighway. >
>> DS
>
> Don't lump all Usenet regulars into the category of 'biker gangs'.
> Personally, I resent that implication as I am nothing like a biker (thank
> goodness). There are many, many groups on Usenet which are made up of
> well-spoken, knowledgeable contributors who don't use foul language,
> flames or vicious attitudes.
>
> It is obvious to me that the owner of the $42,000 trouble-maker has more
> class than some of the people who responded to his post,
That is why he called the car a lemon countless times. then calls the
company that made it and the employees idiots!

No! the fact was, he had one problem. is that a lemon? No!

He posted it seven times so as to emphasize that all 300's are lemons.

Then the coward back peddled and disappeared. Said high ranking officials
were helping him.

RIGHT!!! more likely he shot off his stupid mouth at the dealership that was
helping him and they found out his problems were from his ****ing around
with the car!
> those people are 'biker class'......just carried away a bit with the
> idiotic macho insensitive image being a car buff seems to demand.
>
> Yes, I would appreciate the help of the people on this group, but also
> unprejudiced opinions as well. At least this wouldn't demonstrate a
> narrow-mindedness which would obviously color their opinions.
>
> By the way, when did you get coronated, King Stern?
>
> Arthur
>

When you know all this as facts, come and tell us. You are making
unwarranted assumptions. If his accusations were indeed true, so he ranted
for a while. Don't we all want to rant when something like this happens?
Don't you want to know when some folks are having particular problems so you
can learn from them?
Prejudging a situation and not believing his retraction isn't really fair.
Calling people liars without evidence is certainly not constructive insofar
as this group is concerned, just because he bad-mouthed a Chrysler product,
and a damned expensive one at that. It could have been any car.

Arthur

(SNIP)
> Then the coward back peddled and disappeared. Said high ranking officials
> were helping him.
>
> RIGHT!!! more likely he shot off his stupid mouth at the dealership that
> was helping him and they found out his problems were from his ****ing
> around with the car!

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Arthur wrote:

> Prejudging a situation and not believing his retraction isn't really fair.

It's every bit as fair as blathering on with tens of posts about how a car
is a "lemon" because of ONE problem which is IN PROCESS OF BEING FIXED.

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Arthur wrote:

> Don't lump all Usenet regulars into the category of 'biker gangs'.

See, that's the nice thing about Usenet. If you don't like what a
particular poster has to say, you don't have to read his posts.

> It is obvious to me that the owner of the $42,000 trouble-maker has more
> class than some of the people who responded to his post

Jolly good. You use what's "obvious" to you to guide your Usenet reading
habits, and everybody'll be happy.

> Yes, I would appreciate the help of the people on this group,

The people on this group who tend to be helpful also -- with a couple
exceptions -- tend to have short patience for halfassed or stupid
questions.

> unprejudiced opinions as well.

There is no such thing as an unprejudiced opinion.

> By the way, when did you get coronated, King Stern?

Late December back in '63.

DS