Ignorant salesmen piss me off

Eengstro — Mon, 05 May 2008 18:02:42 +0000

I stopped by the local BMW dealer to take a look at the new 1 Series yesterday. (Yes, I fit! I don’t think I can bring myself to pay $35k for one though.) I was also curious about any certified pre-owned E46s on the lot (since that’s about the only BMW I’d actually buy at this point in time).

So, I asked the salesman, “What E46s do you have on the lot?”

He asked, “What are you looking for, a 335i?”

The 335i is an E90, dumbass, not an E46. Now, I don’t expect most of the snobs and yuppies who buy BMWs to know the difference between an E46 and an E90, but some of us actually care about driving rather than posing, and we know the difference between the two. Is it too much to ask for the dealer to know the difference?

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Eengstro — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 06:10:30 +0000

I just stumbled upon this “customer spotlight” marketing brochure from TGS which I was involved with a couple of years back:

“HardCopy is a far superior solution for this type of output than the ‘traditional’ method of printing in standard Open Inventor—namely, using a SoOffscreenRenderer to render a bitmap to a file,” says [eengstro] of [eengstro's employer]. “The vectorized output from HardCopy is much smaller than the bitmaps produced by other methods, and scales up easily to large-format printers.”

Wow. I wrote that. Somehow, I feel… unclean.

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