Re: An absurd situation

["Jackcsg" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I got the same crap last year when I wanted Michelin tires on my truck from
a tech. Seems a lot of people are still ok with buying products from a
communist country though....
She probably worked for the Canadian Government....

"R.H.Campbell" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I really thought I'd heard it all until this afternoon.
>
> Got a call from a woman moving into a home with an alarm I had installed
> some years ago, and that had been non monitored for a couple of years. We
> made an appointment for tomorrow morning to hook it up to the CS, and when
I
> arrived home, my wife said the woman had called to cancel the appointment.
> So curious as to why, I called the lady and found that she had made an
> appointment with a large company who promised to send out a French
speaking
> salesman. Now since I knew this company and their rates, I pointed out to
> her that she was going to have to pay $10 a month more for service, get
> limited warranty and service compared to my offering, and burden herself
> needlessly with a three year contract.
>
> Her response to me for why she was going with them was..." you're not a
> Francophone from Quebec"....!!! Talk about "reverse bias". I get by in
> French, and my son is fluently bilingual, but her reasoning (if you want
to
> call it that) was that I was not Canadian French from Quebec, so she chose
> not to deal with me....
>
> For the first time in my life I simply had no answer !! But I couldn't
help
> thinking..."Lady, if you're that stupid that you want to go for that kind
of
> deal simply because I don't come from Quebec, then go for it...."
>
> Gawd, proves the old adage...a fool and his money are soon parted.
>
> RHC
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