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Burnin21,Jun 21 2006, 09:02 AM Wrote:And yes thats right, I was only asking for help and looking for some advice. Feels good to get bitched out when all you do is ask for help. Next time i'll keep my mouth shut.
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In asking for help and advice you gave everyone the opportunity to give you some insight or advice you perhaps didn't really want to hear. That's the nature of the request you made.

In your original post you claimed that the dealership did some work that you did not authorize. Anyone who knows anything about the way Ford dealerships work, understand that this is highly unlikely.

Even still, I took you at your word and suggested that you re-read the document you signed to fully understand what you had committed to. I thought that was good advice that could lead to a constructive course of action – but only if you were straight with us.

Except for vaguely admitting to signing something, you never did tell us specifically what you signed for, and you continued to trash talk the dealership. And when you went ahead and paid the dealership (after stating you wouldn’t pay for s***t!) it was pretty clear to the rest of us that you had indeed authorized the work they did, and the misunderstanding was in fact your mistake.

But rather than admit your mistake, you continued to trash talk the dealership and you continued to intimate that somehow Ford of Canada was responsible for your situation. If you were as beligerent with the dealership folks, all the while being wrong, I can imagine how they would have thought about you.

IMO your request for help generated some some good advice, some gentle criticism and some "tough love" that someone who seems to know more about you than I do, thought was justified. Part of growing up is learning how to accept all these things with grace and with thanks.

You're welcome.

PS: if you put your ego and your anger in your pocket and go back and talk to the service manager about what happened, you might still find there is a satisfactory resolution to be had. Try talking gently and with humility and you just might get some of that hard-earned money back.