What's up with all the new Toyota commercials? Did someone tell them a commercial blitz is the way to win back consumer confidence? I do not believe that to be an effective game plan. The typical American mindset is what have you done for me lately. Spending millions on TV commercials simply ain't it boo.
Give folks, in particular those inconvenienced by this SNAFU, some freebies. You know free oil change, front-end alignment, rotate the wheels . . . You get the point--spend those millions on your customers. Then give the party, whose idea this was, a lie detector test to determine their real motive.
The $64 million question remains. Who cut Toyota's break-line? Was this internal I spy? It does not add up. Toyota put the 'Q' in quality assurance and we are being told their stuff was as raggedy as Bay-Bay's six weeks old weave. Here is where the plot seems to develop some intrigue; I hear it was not the Japanese (Japan) side where the boom was banged, but rather the American (the U.S.) division. You mean to tell me Americans could possibly be possibly be responsible for something so dastardly evil? Please say it ain’t so! Commercials will not fix this.
Hey T, perhaps you need to curtail your outflow and hold on to your cash. I have a feeling you just might need every dime.
I'm so tired of big business.
ReplyDeleteToyota doesn't give a damn. They've made their money and ain't nobody gonna really do anything about it. Toyota calculated their risk vs (already gained) profit.
So of course they can take a couple of bucks & make their relatively inexpensive "repairs." But they are not really going to be held accountable. Accountable & responsible means compensation for every Toyota owner that was potentially at risk.
You know what else I'm tired of?? Financial reform! Financial reform ain't gonna help ME!! You wanna know why?
Who's going to stop PNC Bank from holding my transactions as pending, and then posting them out of chronological order (because they KNOW it will cause an "insufficient funds" fee (profit))???
When I was working this was not an issue. But I have been unemployed for over a year, so I can't afford this. But it appears to me that PNC Bank has used my lack of income to target me in some kind of fee-profit-making-algorithm.
PNC Bank has a proven history of posting transactions in an order which will trigger one or more insufficient funds fees (profits). For example, a weekday CVS or Walgreens transaction posts within 24 hours. But they will hold those weekday transactions in "pending" for 2 or more days if they know they can trigger NSF fees (profits) by changing the order.
Additionally, I have caught PNC Bank in the act of liberally posting inappropriate NSF fees to my account!! Their customer service says "Oh, well at the time we thought your transaction *might* cause an overdraft." I caught 3 of these charges - all within a 30 day period. THREE! That's 3 x $36 = $108. Did I mention that I've been unemployed for over a year???
I'm an Obama supporter, but I'm tired of financial reform talk. Banks make their money off the backs of the hard working, the overworked, the poor, and the unemployed. No one will make banks accountable, so financial reform won't help me.
They should just go ahead and apply that financial reform time & energy to the health care issue ... which I need. Or a job.
I'm so tired of big business.
ReplyDeleteToyota doesn't give a damn. They've made their money and ain't nobody gonna really do anything about it. Toyota calculated their risk vs (already gained) profit.
So of course they can take a couple of bucks & make their relatively inexpensive "repairs." But they are not really going to be held accountable. Accountable & responsible means compensation for every Toyota owner that was potentially at risk.
You know what else I'm tired of?? Financial reform! Financial reform ain't gonna help ME!! You wanna know why?
Who's going to stop PNC Bank from holding my transactions as pending, and then posting them out of chronological order (because they KNOW it will cause an "insufficient funds" fee (profit))???
When I was working this was not an issue. But I have been unemployed for over a year, so I can't afford this. But it appears to me that PNC Bank has used my lack of income to target me in some kind of fee-profit-making-algorithm.
PNC Bank has a proven history of posting transactions in an order which will trigger one or more insufficient funds fees (profits). For example, a weekday CVS or Walgreens transaction posts within 24 hours. But they will hold those weekday transactions in "pending" for 2 or more days if they know they can trigger NSF fees (profits) by changing the order.
Additionally, I have caught PNC Bank in the act of liberally posting inappropriate NSF fees to my account!! Their customer service says "Oh, well at the time we thought your transaction *might* cause an overdraft." I caught 3 of these charges - all within a 30 day period. THREE! That's 3 x $36 = $108. Did I mention that I've been unemployed for over a year???
I'm an Obama supporter, but I'm tired of financial reform talk. Banks make their money off the backs of the hard working, the overworked, the poor, and the unemployed. No one will make banks accountable, so financial reform won't help me.
They should just go ahead and apply that financial reform time & energy to the health care issue ... which I need. Or a job.