The power of a letterhead (wasn't me Guv)
Few years back in sunny Manchester, a nice man decided to order the new really really big & shiny car (make excluded for reasons but the Lord didn't order her one).

Specced up to the nines - folding walnut tables for the rear seat passengers were a good example. Cost of many many thousands of your Earth pounds. OK, about £68k I think.

Now at the time the wait was anything up to 18 months for one of these puppies, as was made clear at the time when he ordered the shiny wang-extender.

Except, he turned up with an 'official' letter from the area manager for the manufacturer (NOT the dealer) stating that for every day delivery was delayed beyond day X (about 3 months), the price would go down by £250. Do the maths, boys and girls. Coincidentally, the person who signed the letter disappeared. But as an employee of sufficient authority, his signature was worth many shiny pennies.

Anyway, not wanting to give this obnoxious git a free car, a mad rush developed and he got the car a few months later. For about £40k.

You'd then think he'd be off into the sunset with a big cheesy shit-eating grin on his face, but no - he turned into the customer from hell - always bringing it back for imaginary faults, or when he wanted a free carwash, or a few free coffees etc etc. Or his kids would ring up demanding replacement instruction manuals/keys/key fobs while pretending to be him. Tossers.

I did however have the distinct pleasure of telling his fat knacker offspring how much I would give 'him' for it as part exchange a year later...

"hhhhhow much??? - my father paid £70k for the car, this is how you treat your best customers, you try to rip them off...."

"I know exactly how much Daddy paid for this car as I SOLD IT TO HIM (you cretin)and I'm not in the business of making you a profit" (YOU SCAMMING LITTLE DADDY IMPERSONATING SCROTE).


Moral of the story? Letterheaded paper is good to have. Letterhead plus a signature? Good as legal tender any day. And always take some with you when you leave a job. You know it makes sense.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 12:03, 4 replies)

Fat knacker and father

wouldn't be in the property development game would he - sounds like one of my clients??
(Mr M@ Probably not that difficult!, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 13:53, closed)

Letterheads from work
I only needed two from work. One to say I'd earned XXX amount of wages in the last financial year (as so to be considered independent and qualify for Study Allowance) and then another one to explain I'd magically started recieving ridiculously less money than before, so I may continue to receive a higher allowance.

Bottom line is yes, letterheads are wonderful, powerful things.
(Leyxia, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 2:40, closed)

Letterheads are good
A place where I once worked were loathe to hand out references.

The reason given was that they once employed a newly graduated young woman. Said young woman was a rather attractive redhead with a very fanciable body.

Anyway, she used her wiles to charm one of the bosses underlings to get her a blank sheet of headed paper complete with the bosses signature. "Just sign this.. and this.... and this..." Job's a good 'un.

She grabbed the paper and went away.... to fabricate a false position/experience/salary etc. She then attached said piece of paper to an equally false CV and sent it away. Result? A swanky job in New York and a free green card thrown in.

She also managed to put the former boss on the spot somehow so that, in order to not make himself like some gobshite who'd sign something without looking at it, he'd agree, over the phone that everything in her letter was completely true.
(Fanta Menace Is tall enough to see over the fence, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 12:29, closed)

Do i understand?
Your Area Manager is mates with this guy? AM leaves, taking with him headed paper, writes a letter on Merc headed paper and gives it to his mate who you guys then give £28k off a new car along with priority delivery?

I work for another manufacturer and this makes no sense to me. Sounds like it should've been posted to last weeks QOTW!
(Scoopfoot loves lamp, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 13:06, closed)