This past weekend we received an advertisement in the mail from a local car dealership (Bill Smith, Cullman, AL). This is there yearly attempt to boost car sales...They promise you a prize, no purchase necessary, BUT you must go into the dealership to claim said prize. Well, in today's economy who can pass up a chance to win a $10,000 Wal-Mart shopping spree?!? Not this hick chic...I love to go to Wal-Mart!!!
So we head to the dealership to claim our prize. (Last year it was 2 gold dollars...luckily we live close enough that it didn't cost us the whole $2 to go to the dealership). When we get there we ask for the event specialist, who just happens to be the first car salesman we see. As we proceed to his desk we notice a couple other victims who apparently came to claim their prize & decided to test drive & seriously consider buying a car. Just as we get to his cubicle David tells him I am a blogger & that I will be blogging about our experience...he smiles & says don't use my name I don't want to be on the internet, at this point he hasn't even introduced himself, no name tag...now he no longer wants my husband's information he wants my name & phone number. He wants to know if we are interested in a new car, ahhh...no, we just got one last year (from another dealership). He then leaves his desk for less than 5 minutes & returns to have us follow him so that he can register us in the contest. He places the piece of paper that he wrote all my info down on into a wire basket for the drawing to be held on Saturday for a $500 Wal-Mart gift card (nevermind we didn't see anything written on it). Then he takes the code & matches it to a banner & says congratulations you have won a $5.00 Wal-Mart gift card. Now the gift card just so happen to be in his pocket, for real?!?!
David takes the card, says thank you & we walk out the door. I am sure we didn't even make it the 3 miles down the road to Wal-Mart before they were looking me up on the internet, checking my Facebook & such. I laughed & told the hubby that somebody could get used to that kind of treatment...the salesman never asked twice about purchasing a new car, not that it would have worked, when your legally blind the state for some odd reason frowns upon you driving.
I am a girl who has been below the poverty line most of my life so my favorite kind of shopping is window shopping. Now David literally despises to go into a store if he doesn't have money to buy whatever he is gonna look at. Myself, on the other hand, love to dream & wish I can walk into every boutique in America & leave without spending a dime. It only helps me when a lottery ticket is purchased for me to day dream about what all i would do with the money...haha
David & I took our $5.00 gift card right on down to Wal-Mart & bought us a case of Diet Coke. Of course, we had to add about $3.00 to it to make the purchase. Overall it was a good experience with no arm twisting.
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