Saturday, December 29, 2012

DEPRESSED!


And it would be unfair to go into detail to explain why and so for once I will not elaborate. I will try hard to discuss another matter that is not as personal but downright annoying. How many out there have received form letters saying that you had contacted someone to sell your home for cash? Meaning bottom dollar and that we could be desperate to dump our home, this is also phishing via the snail mail, in my opinion. And we never ever did call this scam man. Well, many times we have had just thrown these dumb letters away, but this time I felt the need to set the person straight who was kind enough to enclose a toll free number. I told him when he called me back that his letter was a lie and that we never ever contacted him or anyone else and that he should not do business in such an obscene way. He insisted that he has been in this legitimate business for sixteen years and that ten thousand letters of that kind went out. Yet, he is a one man operation, since he answered his phone and when I called the first time he had an answering machine not another person and his name is on the letter head and even our caller I.D. said it was him. I do know that it is possible to generate that many letters by mechanical means, but where or why would he choose our address to send his form letter to? I am not stupid enough to not realize that people sell addresses and names, but to a company who states in the first line in of the letter that WE had contacted them? That’s a new one on me. Usually form letters are more generic. You see, that is what annoyed me the most was the fact that it stated that WE had initiated this dialogue. To me that was downright wrong and dishonest. Too many of us fight the bigger more important fights and toss these silly ones by the wayside, and perhaps that is what I should have done, but… I truly felt this guy needed to know that this is not a decent business practice and although he said no one ever called him before to tell him that… somehow that made me feel vindicated, and so he heard what I had to say and removed us from his mailer list! TA DA! I know that I didn’t find that elusive cure for all those deadly diseases, but I did try to right a wrong that somehow has ramifications on all HONEST business people who send honest feelers out, not insinuating that you know them or had any previous contact with them and just ask you to use their services if you need them. Simple and honest and that should be how all businesses should conduct themselves; is how I feel. And you know something that if all business practices were conducted in this way I bet more would succeed, hmm, it couldn’t hurt? Too many people think that dirty underhanded behavior is how to deal in certain types of businesses to succeed, well let’s make sure that they are very, very, very WRONG! Now, repeat after me, if you see a wrong to be righted just do it! No, matter how small it may seem, someone could be hurt by it and it is our responsibility to change the world, even in minutia, one thingy at a time. On that note of little or no note, allow me to be the first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too! And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?!

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