Now normally I wouldn't really care if someone insulted me or was rude to me as I would just shrug it off, but when it is a professional with whom I'm trying to do business with and they act unprofessionally and insult me it's a different matter.
Simply put, I called a private garage about purchasing a car, but as the garage is approx 200miles away I thought best bet would be to see if they would be willing to negotiate a lower price over the phone so that the car would be within my budget, as if they couldn't/wouldn't lower the price it would be a waste of my time and fuel to go and see it.
Now, speaking to this man over the phone (mobile to mobile) I asked if he was willing, and he decided to rant at me for even suggesting a lower price without having even seen let alone driven the car in question. To me it just seemed that he was too simple to understand my reasoning so I just kept my cool and explained my reasons in simpler terms saying that if there was no room for negotiations then it would be pointless in me wasting time and money by coming to see the car. For some reason he flipped out even more and started insulting me and saying that I was wasting his time and that I was insulting him (in not a very polite way), so I decided to be the bigger man and just hang up and let it go (as my Dad was listening in on the conversation, otherwise I would have given him a whole load of abuse that he probably wouldn't have understood anyway).
Now that didn't bother me too much, I didn't give it a second thought until I received a text, from the guy saying "W*****s". Now this was totally unprofessional so I immediately called the guy back but he wouldn't pick up so I decided to reply to his text with:
"Are you simple? That's slander, you did it from your own phone thus proving how stupid you are as you have provided proof of your slander so expect to hear from my lawyer soon"
Now I have no intention of calling a lawyer and I am aware that by referring to him as stupid in my reply is also slander, it was just an empty threat to shake him up a bit for being so rude.
Now about 15 mins later he texts again saying:
"Whatever. If you can't take it don't give it out. And don't insult my knowledge ya clever ******** it is hooks like you that this country is in the state its in."
Again I tried to call the guy back to try and figure out what he thinks I said to make him believe that I had "give it out" and also to give him a piece of my mind, this time he answered but hung up virtually straight away whilst I was talking.
So I decided on one final text:
"Ha ha ha ha are you serious?! I would love to 'dish it out' as you said but I'd rather not stoop to such a small minded level! It's people like you who took this country down hill by not being educated enough to have a simple conversation."
I know I shouldn't have even replied to the first insult but this guy really peeved me off so I felt it necessary to retort.
Do you guys think my threat was valid, I mean could I actually sue for slander? It's too much hassle anyway and it doesn't bother me enough to go out of my way and actually obtain legal advice just to punish this simpleton. I appear to have calmed down quite a bit after writing this post, I guess I just needed to vent.
Rant over.
NVP
Simply put, I called a private garage about purchasing a car, but as the garage is approx 200miles away I thought best bet would be to see if they would be willing to negotiate a lower price over the phone so that the car would be within my budget, as if they couldn't/wouldn't lower the price it would be a waste of my time and fuel to go and see it.
Now, speaking to this man over the phone (mobile to mobile) I asked if he was willing, and he decided to rant at me for even suggesting a lower price without having even seen let alone driven the car in question. To me it just seemed that he was too simple to understand my reasoning so I just kept my cool and explained my reasons in simpler terms saying that if there was no room for negotiations then it would be pointless in me wasting time and money by coming to see the car. For some reason he flipped out even more and started insulting me and saying that I was wasting his time and that I was insulting him (in not a very polite way), so I decided to be the bigger man and just hang up and let it go (as my Dad was listening in on the conversation, otherwise I would have given him a whole load of abuse that he probably wouldn't have understood anyway).
Now that didn't bother me too much, I didn't give it a second thought until I received a text, from the guy saying "W*****s". Now this was totally unprofessional so I immediately called the guy back but he wouldn't pick up so I decided to reply to his text with:
"Are you simple? That's slander, you did it from your own phone thus proving how stupid you are as you have provided proof of your slander so expect to hear from my lawyer soon"
Now I have no intention of calling a lawyer and I am aware that by referring to him as stupid in my reply is also slander, it was just an empty threat to shake him up a bit for being so rude.
Now about 15 mins later he texts again saying:
"Whatever. If you can't take it don't give it out. And don't insult my knowledge ya clever ******** it is hooks like you that this country is in the state its in."
Again I tried to call the guy back to try and figure out what he thinks I said to make him believe that I had "give it out" and also to give him a piece of my mind, this time he answered but hung up virtually straight away whilst I was talking.
So I decided on one final text:
"Ha ha ha ha are you serious?! I would love to 'dish it out' as you said but I'd rather not stoop to such a small minded level! It's people like you who took this country down hill by not being educated enough to have a simple conversation."
I know I shouldn't have even replied to the first insult but this guy really peeved me off so I felt it necessary to retort.
Do you guys think my threat was valid, I mean could I actually sue for slander? It's too much hassle anyway and it doesn't bother me enough to go out of my way and actually obtain legal advice just to punish this simpleton. I appear to have calmed down quite a bit after writing this post, I guess I just needed to vent.
Rant over.
NVP
