Car dealerships apparently don’t take “get lost” for an answer.
Two years ago, Destination Kia (which apparently is now Destination Nissan) contacted me about purchasing my Nissan Sentra. Yep, the Nissan Sentra I never owned, never bought, never leased, and never got within 25 feet of. I contacted them, they apologized, they said they would take their name off of their mailing lists. I blogged about the situation, and went on with my life.
Well, apparently “taking my name off their list” is just another way of saying, “We’re going to contact you again in two years to buy your Nissan, Chuck, how about that?”
Yep. Last week, I received this little email from Destination Nissan in Albany.
This was from August 22.
I let this go. I had other things on my plate at the time, and didn’t need any more contacts from Destination Nissan. Certainly this was a fluke. Certainly they realized that this proud GM driver wouldn’t be caught DEAD in a Nissan.
Apparently Destination Nissan didn’t get the message. Because yesterday … they contacted me again.
Yep. Check out the time stamp in the upper right corner. August 28. One week after I didn’t respond back from their previous response.
Okay. At this point, I’m just going to assume that Destination Nissan did NOT take my name off their mailing list when I requested that they do so. And now they’re sending me spam emails once a week?!? For a car they want to purchase from me that DOESN’T EVEN EXIST???
Yeah, I think I’m going to have to have words with these yonks. Because at this point, I’m considering these spam emails as harassment.
So, I mean … Destination Nissan … if you really want to purchase this imaginary car … the one that gets 50 imaginary miles to the gallon … and can go from 0 to 60 in 2.5 imaginary seconds …
Feel free to pay me in my personal currency. I’ll sell you this specious Nissan for the small price of two Chuckycoins. Chuckycoin can be used to purchase any of my online art or books, and is currently at an exchange rate of $5,000 USD = $1 Chuckycoin. So yeah, give me $10,000 – the equivalent of two Chuckycoins – and you can take this imaginary Nissan off my hands.
Have at it.
Because we all know Nissan is an acronym for Nasty Interior, Sometimes Starts, Almost Never.
Chuck The Writer 
Another fine example of ‘targeted advertising’ missing the broad side of a barn. They bought a mailing list of “Nissan owners” and it has nothing to do with registered Nissan owners or former customers. They are to dumb and/or indifferent to care, and most of the ‘feedback’ will be people deleting the e-mail unread. The company that sold the list has their money, and if the dealership doesn’t complain then they’re golden. If they do get a complaint then they have some ready-made apology and pathetic excuse so they can sell them another defective list for next year.
I like the “pre-tariff’ hook: basically admitting they have a lot full of cars they couldn’t sell before and are hoping they can con someone into buying now.
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I know what an old guy with too much free time on his hands would do.
Recurring annoying emails? Asking you to set up an appointment? For the trade-in of a car that doesn’t exist?
Take 30 seconds to set up the appointment; and of course, don’t keep it. If they hound you again – wash, rinse and repeat.
And if they take offense and come after you…”What!? No clue!! Someone must have hacked my computer.”
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Actually, Destination is a 2 dealership chain—-Destination Nissan & Destination Kia. The owners advertise on Albany Broadcasting’s radio stations twice an hour (because AB’s owner is the father of James Morrell, Jr., the kookier half of the ownership couple), and on local television with animated ads. The Morrells have been in the news lately, and not for a good reason, absent a gun buy-back they’re sponsoring this weekend.
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I wouldn’t buy a car from them. Sick of the puppies and babies BS
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