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From: jay@allegra.UUCP (Jay Hyman)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Jeeps from the Government (again)
Message-ID: <4204@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 10:09:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: allegra.4204
Posted: Tue Jun  4 10:09:30 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Jun-85 02:05:38 EDT
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Reply-To: jay@allegra.UUCP (Jay Hyman)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
Lines: 33
Summary: I called that phone number ...

>Brett Fleisch writes:
>> Earlier in this newsgroup, I brought up the issue of government jeeps.
>> Most people said they really were in sad shape.  Anyhow, the following
>> ad appeared in the UCLA campus newspaper today.  I dont know if it's
>> been appearing there long:
>> 
>> Is it true you can buy Jeeps for $44 through the US government?
>> Get the facts today! Call .....
>> 
>> If anyone is brave and wants the number I have it.  The area code is 312.

That same ad appeared for a while at Columbia, where I go to
school.  Well, I thought it looked kind of interesting, so I gave it a try,
and boy, was it ever spooky.  There was a live woman on the other end of 
the phone, but she was either totally out of her mind or on some real 
powerful drugs.  Upon picking up the phone she calmly inquired if I was
calling about the jeeps;  when I responded in the affirmative she launched
on a 10,000 word-per-minute monologue that lasted a good five minutes.
(OK, the first number may be exaggerated, but the second isn't.)  It was
like a recorded sales pitch at double speed, and she wouldn't let me get
a word in.  It seems the government has these amazing sales of jeeps and 
other disassembled bargains all the time (she listed about 700 products
I might want to buy), and her company will sell you a publication telling
you when and where you can find these great sales.  Of course, she never
says outright that if you just say yes and they mail you the catalogue
you'll end up paying for the privilege of being able to buy from the
gov't, but I managed to beat it out of her at the end.

So - if it's the Jeep parts you want, let the guy who bought one tell you
where to get it;  get this number and call it only if you find this sort
of thing entertaining.

Jay