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Karl Ng
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Jan 09 2012
My experience with North York Chrysler Jeep
I just wanted to share a little story about my experience with North York Chrysler Jeep. Near the end of the summer 2011, I was planning to get a winter car for the up coming cold winter, so me and my friend Livius started doing some research on a reliable and good winter car that fit my needs. We came across a few brands, went to the dealerships and test drove a few of them. Jeep Wrangler was the last one I looked at and surprisingly it stood out good from most of my choices. After a couple of hours, I put an offer in and deposit, ordered the vehicle on October 1, 2011. I was also told the vehicle would arrive in 8-12 weeks, on a side note, I did tell the sales person I would like to get it in Dec.
week 3 – called the sales person I didn’t mind to get the vehicle sooner if possible
week 5 – called to find out the status of the car and found out that sales person no longer worked there. They redirected me to another person, didn’t really get the name at the time but anyhow, it was a voice mail anyways, so I left a message but no replies after.
week 8 – found out there was an online chat from their website, so I tried, got redirected to a sales manager, got an auto reply thing and didn’t really get a real person to reply at all. Went in the dealership in person, tried to find that sales manager in that email in person, got there, he was in a meeting, so I talked with another guys there. Told him about my situation and he knew it right away about my car because of the special color of the vehicle. Told me to wait for the car because there was not info from the factory yet… So I left…
week 11 – got a call from them, told me he just got my email because he was on vacation or whatever and told me to wait again, and the vehicle should be there at the end of DEC 2011.
week 12 – well I already knew I wasn’t going to get it because not really a lot of business days at the end of 2011.
week 14 – exactly 3 months and 1 day after I made the order, went online chat again and complained, got an email back saying I should get my car on Jan 9, 2012 so I waited.
week 15 – Jan 9, 2012. Still haven’t got a vin number of the vehicle, called the sales manager at 2ish, it was voice mail again, left a message, waited till 4pm, still no replies. Got really pissed because I had already arranged a ride to pick up the car and still no emails or phone calls of the car status. Went online chat on their website, complained and got another auto reply thingie again. Left work and emailed the sales manager that I would like to have my deposit back because of the delay and…
Still no replies from any real person at this point. I did mention in my last email to the sales manager, I only paid a deposit and I was already getting no service at all, so how the hack do I expect any good service after I bought the car… Also on the back of the agreement sales contract, it says I could get my deposit back after 3 months and that’s why I asked again in week 14… Don’t get me wrong but Jeep Wrangler is still a great car I think (well, from reviews, its awesome, but you never know unless you ACTUALLY HAVE ONE) but from what I am experiencing, I have already lost the trust of the sales people, service? umm…
I don’t know, I had never experienced something like this, maybe it was a wrong decision but definitely there was something wrong about that… we’ll see what happens, my decision is made at this point, hopefully I will get my deposit back when I go find out after work tomorrow…
Edited January 11, 2012. What happened after? Click here My experience with North York Chrysler Jeep Continues… + Misc.
Edited March 13, 2012. The Survey… Click here My experience with North York Chrysler Jeep (part3)
Jan 08 2012
Action Figures
I was told by Sunny that an old friend Eric has been collecting action figures for years so I had to to see how crazy a toys collector can get with my own eyes. Not a lot of people would use the space and display cabinets to show off their collections as neat as Eric really. There were 3 cabinets for any robots action figures and more than 10 for 1:6 scale action figures, when I saw the whole setup of the displays, my jaw almost dropped to the floor because everything looked extremely nice. Anyways, after a full tour of the room and a long chat with him, part of me was already thinking… ummm, maybe I should start collecting some of those as a hobby as well… Seriously, I never knew those human action figures could look that nice. Anyways, I didn’t take a lot of pictures but you get the idea when you look at these 🙂
Jan 06 2012
Lunch with the Aunties @黃金閣 again
This Friday was a cooking class day off in between the previous and coming semesters, so most of the aunties and our teacher Joseph were available to have lunch together. I figured 黃金閣 would be a good place since they can really keep up the quality and it is close to mostly everyone. I am sure there will be more lunch gathering like this in the coming future, most of us didn’t apply cooking class because we were told to let more new students to join instead of us dominating it. Anyhow, it was a very fun afternoon, and the Chinese New Year is coming in about 2 weeks, we will probably have a gathering dinner with most of us soon, so stay tuned :p
P.S. the last 2 pictures are rare dishes, not all Chinese restaurant has it fyi 😀
Jan 03 2012
First Day at work in 2012
First day at work in 2012 and it’s the coldest temperature by far, Toronto remains under an extreme cold weather alert today as the temperature hovers around -12 C with wind chills of -20 to -25, but the weather is expected to warm up later this week. Until then, cold, Arctic air is going to hang over the city, so people should bundle up when they head outdoors.
Environment Canada is predicting a high of -12 C with wind chills as low as -25 in the morning. And surprisingly, the sky is soooo clear, no clouds, just wind and a super clear moon. Just wanted to share a picture I just took outside my office this afternoon.
Dec 31 2011
New Year Party – 31 Dec 2011
Yet another party at Queenie’s house on New Year’s Eve, tons of people, tons of fun and of course tons of good food!!! I was very honored once again, got invited to Queenie’s house for this years new year’s eve party, and whenever there is a party with the aunties, it means there would be a 100% amazing good food no doubt. It was more like a pot luck dinner and everyone made something different, I didn’t have time to make any but there was already enough food for at least 40+ people really :p Of course it was a very memorable New Year’s Eve dinner thank to all the aunties especially Queenie for putting this event together. Everyone stayed chatting and waited for the count down of 2012 but for me, there was a part 2 of the night. Instead of staying at Queenie’s house, I headed to Karen’s house for the count down since they both asked me to join the same night :p As I predicted, with the game LEGO Creationary, it was hilarious at Karen’s place. If you want to know why, you definitely have to check out a full photo album on my face book here http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150558386810211.432024.689775210&type=3&l=3895fdacf2
Some highlights of the night
Well, Happy New Year 2012 to all of you!!!