Glenmore Audi Wants to Rip You Off

So, I've been looking at cars online in preparation for my move back, and I found this one:

Description : PREMIUM Package, Sport Package, Xenon Headlights. FOR MORE INFO CALL: LOCAL 536-3765 OR TOLL FREE 1(866)769-6851

Year: 2003
Make: AUDI
Model: A4
Stock Number: U0647AA Mileage: 45,600
Warranty : Available Body : Sedan
Type : Sedan

It was selling for $13,900, and had pictures of the car, complete with manual transmission. So I called the dealership and spoke to Scott, who assured me that it was a great car, but, unfortunately he had heard there was a little issue with the price it had been advertised at: in fact, it was $6,000 more.

Whoopsie.

He asked if I was still interested, so I said I was, and asked for some more information. It turns out, though, that the car in question was not only $6K more than advertised - it also had double the mileage and an automatic transmission. As far as I can determine, the body color was the same, but that seems to be about it.

I could maybe accept this as a little error, except it's the second car I've been interested in at Glenmore Audi in Calgary this week, and, coincidentally, the second one they've had a little misunderstanding with. The other one had a small "error" in the price it was advertised at, as well.

An A6 with difference of about $10K.

I don't usually name names on TYC: it's meant to be a venue for love and peace and happiness, but I did a search on "glenmore audi scam" and it didn't return anything. But people should know, and these guys should not be able to lie without being called on it.

So if you've found this by doing a search on "glenmore audi scam" or "cheats" or "rip-off" or "lying lies and the lying lyers who tell them", then I'd suggest you do what I'm doing, and keep shopping somewhere else.

And if anybody knows where the A4 with 45,000 km on it actually is (the pictures had to come from somewhere, right?), I'm interested.

P!nk

Well, I decided to go see her at the Moon & Stars Festival in Locarno, Switzerland because the MNB is playing one of her tunes, and I like it a lot.

I've been to a few pure pop shows before... Robbie Williams, The Corrs, and, um... well, it seemed like more. In any case, I enjoyed those ones, and I expected to like this one. I had a hunch it wouldn't be my usual crowd, but after the night before (which was spent with my project team eating insanely overpriced Japanese food to the worst player-piano music ever) it would have to be a nice relief. I figured there would be some nice staging, and that it would be good to move to. And, of course, to sing along with.

What I didn't expect was that she can actually sing.

I thought I'd seen her on TV before, and I seem to remember it being pretty nasty. In retrospect, I guess it's not out of the realm of possibility that she was just stoned out of her mind. She seemed sober last night, and she nailed it vocally.

I was right about it not being my usual crowd, though. She seems to have a strange audience - a lot of teen girls, which I had expected. A lot of punks, which I had expected. And a lot of lesbians in their 40's which I had not expected. And, realtive to the general population, I couldn't help but notice that this last group seems to share a bit of a disturbing affinity for the hair and eye-wear stylings of Al Franken.

I'm still not sure what to do with that. Good show, though...