Calling BS on Power Toyota
June 4th, 2008
YarisGuy writes: Nothing beats the fun and excitement of getting a new car. For the second year in a row we headed over to Power Toyota in Irvine to buy another Yaris. Four hours of negotiation later we finally have a workable deal. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the following week we had to completely redo the financing. A few weeks later we realize the passenger door doesn’t have the electronic door lock installed, that was another $100 expense. To add the final insult to injury we just got this incredible refund check.
Yes, that’s right, its a ONE DOLLAR check. Ok, let’s do some basic math here. The check paper itself probably cost 25 cents, the envelop probably another quarter, an accountant making $60k a year probably had to enter data and print the check, at three minutes of time that works out to about 75 cents. Let’s not forget the 42 cents for postage which we will assume covers the mailman delivering it. Now I bill my time at $125 an hour, so in the two minutes to walk to the mailbox and back and go through my mail I could have billed $4.16. All told, let’s round off and say this check probably had an economic impact of about $5.83 cents! Hey, good effecient of time and money their guys. For this total waste, I call BS on Power Toyota.