Everybody is out to rip you off.
I used to think that human nature is basically good, most people honest, hard working and moral.
I'm beginning to question that assumption.
Here's why I feel that way:
90% of my email is someone trying to scam me with fake hard on pills, fake rolexes, fake stock tips and fake promises of sex. The scammers keep trying to get me to fill in my paypal, ebay, bank account info with threats of cancellation.
When I call someone for an estimate on landscaping, home repair, roofing etc.. They NEVER show up. No call no show. No exaggeration. I have to go drive somewhere and talk to someone in an office to get an appointment and even then they string me along and lie to me for weeks on end.They make me call and bitch several times before a half assed attempt is made to show up and take an estimate. Even then the person shows up is stinking of booze and body odor mouthing off to me with busta this and bling bling that as they scope out my house for their night job as a thief.
Do they not want my fucking money? The US economy must be fucking booming because nobody wants to fucking work.
I was driving down the street and there was a pathetic homeless looking dude with a "work for food god bless sign" The motherfucker had a godamned carton of marlboro cigarettes under his arm. Marlboro's are about 32 bucks a carton. Uh brainiac.... don't wear your rolex while begging.
One time I happened to run across a regular "homeless" beggar running across the highway to get into his brand new Jeep Wrangler. The asshole had the audacity to give me dirty looks for not giving him money at the intersection just 15 minutes prior.
Don't get me started on car dealerships. You know how a car salesman is telling a lie? His lips are moving. These people are the scummiest shitbags that have ever walked the earth.
I recently went in to buy a new car. I had the car picked out before I arrived and the manager tells me I have to pay $2000 over sticker because it is a rare car. Bull Shit. I get up to walk out and they guy is like hold on hold on I'll drop the $2000 premium and you can just pay sticker cause that's they kind of guy I am. I laughed in his face. He goes: Well I have a gentleman from Mexico wiring me my full asking price for the car right now so I don't think you can even get it before the money arrives. I told him OK let Mr imaginary Mexico man have the car.
The guy ends up taking another $5000 off the car and I tell him I'll buy it. I go into the finance office and they fuckers have already put life insurance, gap insurance, full extended warranty and several bullshit fees on the contract. I tell the scumbag no way! He pulls off the fees trying to negotiate them lower and lower. The asshole will not shut up. I have already been in there 4 hours so I tell him to sell me the car for the price I negotiated. Finally I look down and see they put the wrong value on my trade in. The mistakes are always in their favor aren't they?
Then the finance guy lowers the warranty and insurance and tries to get me to buy it again while talking about his autistic kids and how he can't afford a vacation.
After saying "NO" 50 times I get the correct paperwork and see that they charged me double the going interest rate. The man tells me it's non-negotiable. I told him fine. I will refinance with my bank tomorrow morning. The manager is like "you can't do that" I told him: "watch me"
It turns out the place tried to screw me at least a dozen times but they didn't get one extra dime out of me. The sad thing is, all car dealerships are very similar to the one I mentioned so it didn't really matter where I went as long as I stayed vigilant. The people I really feel sorry for are the meek that get eaten alive by these sharks then bent over and slammed not even realizing it until their asshole hurts the next morning.
God I hate people. Crime must pay pretty well.. at least in the gray areas like Realtors, mortgages brokers, car salesmen, corporate lawyers, tax assessors and anyone else powerful enough to make you think you are helpless against them.
I hope there is a hell full of napalm and rusty fishing hooks for these predatory crooks.
Fortunately I do run into a a few decent folks now and again.... you already know who you are.
Labels: Rants
posted by Bill Rowland @ August 22, 2006
12 Comments
12 Comments:
"90% of my email is someone trying to scam me with fake hard on pills, fake rolexes, fake stock tips and fake promises of sex."
That's just mean! You can't mess with a man's emotions like that. If you're going to offer a man hard on pills, Rolexes, stock tips, or especially sex, he NEEDS it to be a genuine offer! Lucy van Pelt is obviously behind this. It's "pulling the football away" for the digital age.
You are absolutely right Phoenix.
Of course Lucy only charged a nickel for advice.. football was free.
After my car got totalled by a drunk, my insurance company had my payout for the value of the totalled car to me in 2 business days. My bank put a 72 hour hold on the funds (new account). Right after I deposited the check, I get a call from a concierge service that my insurance company provides, who asked my want kind of car I wanted to buy, told me which dealer in my area to go see, and who there to talk to.
I went, found the guy (he was expecting us), the wife picked out what she wanted, we walked into the finance guys office, told him we were putting 50% down. He blinked, said OK, and in the end, we got a 2006 Outback with a 6 year extendable bumper-to-bumper warranty at 0.0% for 2 years (steep payments, but affordable) for $1000.00 more than we paid for our 2001 Outback that was totalled. And the new car has a lot more features than the old one.
All in all it was a good experience. Now we just get to see how they do on service (me being a former mechanic, it is hard to feed me a line about what is wrong with my car).
Car salesmen are indeed bad but until you've been screwed by a lawyer you don't know how bad it is. Who wants to take a lawyer to court?
I used to think that human nature is basically good, most people honest, hard working and moral.
I used to believe in Santa Claus and thought that pro-wrestling was real. We are all gullible as children. Hopefully, we grow up and realize the truth before we make total fools of ourself. Glad to see you have grown out of your naive phase, and realize that all of us are naturally inclined to do horrible things and have to be taught to act like good and decent human beings.
This is the main flaw in the ideology of Liberalism: optimistically believing that we are all naturally inclined to do good and only learn to be bad from our unenlightened society. In their naive minds, they believe that if society is stripped of all things that are politically incorrect, that love, if given a chance, will overcome everything, and that if punishment is replaced with liberal indoctrination, we would have a utopian society and all live happily ever after.
MadZ: You are absolutely right. The older I get, the more I realize how wrong all that liberal indoctrination was.
After working in advertising for some time now I have learned... there are no car sales. They can give you that price anytime.
snowmanpoop: It makes me want to go to the fixed proces places and just get screwed on top of the table instead of under it.
There are certainly a lot of crooks out there and they all want our money. Let the buyer beware. My son got taken by a car dealership because my husband didn't take his glasses in with him and trusted the assholes to have written what was agreed upon and went ahead and signed. Live and learn.
But I do believe that most people are basically honest in most ways. It's just the other ones that wreck it for everyone because you always have to be suspicious.
The basic train of thought for far too many Americans is screw everybody and watch out for myself. Too many want to make a quick buck and will take any route imaginable to make that buck regardless of the degree of honesty. It's the people that, and this will sound like I'm bitter and jaded, are willing to do the hard work and try to take the honest route that have to deal with this crap and get screwed at every turn and get repeatedly shafted. And that's the short version. Maybe I'll elaborate on my site with the full-blown version.
jeannie: you're right, some make it so that we cannot afford to be off our guard.
Sornie: it sounds like you have the same kind of experiences. It's a damn shame.
Would be more fun that way..lol
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