Tuesday, July 19, 2005

GM now giving their cars away with staff discounts

So now GM's sales are hurting bad enough that they're announcing factory closures and they're giving everyone access to the same discounts that their staff get. Hopefully someone at GM realizes why they've had to take these two very drastic moves. Simply put, their quality is not as good as their competitors, and their customer service is even less desireable.

Unfortunately, those of us, who helped finance GM's long term quality assurance program, by forking over thousands of dollars in repairs that were required far too early on cars built 5 or 6 years ago, won't be able to take advantage of the employee discounts, because we spent all our money on repairs on the heaps that we made the mistake of purchasing, and still unfortunately own. ( Not that I want to buy another GM anyways...it's just so ironic)

GM's financial problems are a direct result of them putting out an inferior product, and them losing their focus on former lifetime customers like me. They have coming to them, exactly what they deserve for ignoring what's important.

If you're a GM shareholder and reading this, I'm not feeling a lot of sympathy for you right now, that you've lost so much share value. Your management team ( yes, yours since you are an owner of the company) has led your company onto the downward spiral, and you let it happen.