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[motortrend]

This must be so painful to watch if you are the owner of a bodyshop

 

[Northstar]

This must be so painful to watch if you are the owner of a bodyshop

I would guess it's closer to being a wet-dream for said bodyshop owner.

 

[Crash]

I love it when people completely ignore the point of my post and respond with such an obvious answer that they seem to be suggesting that I'm mentally impaired.

Ok, so you're upset that he smashed his car up. We get it.

He could've donated his car to some poor person and made them the happiest person alive.

But no. This rich snob can afford a $428,000 Maserati but he gets pissed with a service bill for it, so he smashes the damn thing.

So what's your point of this? That he shouldn't have smashed it? Why shouldn't he? Why should he "donate his car to some poor person"? Why does what he does with his car matter at all?

I'll be laughing my ass off when he wakes up one night and realizes what he's done. What a 🤬

Well, I guess you won't be laughing then. I doubt he'll regret what he's done.

I get he wanted to make a public statement, but was it really necessary? Just because they used a secondhand part? I can understand being upset but this is ridiculous.

What you perceive to be unnecessary may not be the same perception he has, and vice versa. People do "ridiculous" stuff all the time. So what if it's their property?

Oh right, you don't like what he's doing, so you'll just go about saying how it's all ridiculous and unnecessary, and lecturing how this guy must be some "🤬", because obviously your standards and your thoughts are the same ones that everyone must go by.

I love it when people completely ignore the point of my post and respond with such an obvious answer that they seem to be suggesting that I'm mentally impaired.

Nope, I've never suggested or implied that, not even remotely close. You are, however, free to claim that about yourself.

 

[Guardian]

I'm not even fazed about what someone does to their car. I mean, I'm a massive fan of Italian cars (especially Maseratis) - but at the end of the day, they're just hunks of metal and plastic.

If he got 🤬 at a garage for doing a shoddy job (and he has every right to be) - then it's his money, his car and his choice. To do with it as he pleases.

 

[xXKingJoshXx]

He could've donated his car to some poor person and made them the happiest person alive.

Giving a nice car to a poor person is about the worst thing you can do financially. They won't be able to pay for gas, they won't be able to pay for insurance, they won't be able to pay for maintenance. You get the idea. I heard a story of a couple that won a Lamborghini Murcielago and it absolutely killed them (financially).

 

[Pupik]

He could've donated his car to some poor person and made them the happiest person alive.

But no. This rich snob can afford a $428,000 Maserati but he gets pissed with a service bill for it, so he smashes the damn thing.

I'll be laughing my ass off when he wakes up one night and realizes what he's done. What a 🤬

I get he wanted to make a public statement, but was it really necessary? Just because they used a secondhand part? I can understand being upset but this is ridiculous.

It's his car, he has the right to do as he sees fit with it.

Ummm, people in China don't buy things on credit like we do in America. That guy probably bought the Maserati in cash.

The insurance company bit doesn't matter either as long as he doesn't make a claim on the car. That would only matter if he claims to the insurance company that it got stolen or otherwise try to make a claim on it to get insurance to pay out, then THAT would be fraud.

I love it when people completely ignore the point of my post and respond with such an obvious answer that they seem to be suggesting that I'm mentally impaired.

No, it's obvious that only you think that way. Maybe you need help, since you've suggested it first. If you can't take the slightest of non-personal criticism on a message board, you need to find a different activity.

It's a car, just an inanimate object; thus, it's his inanimate object...If he wants to do something stupid to it, fine. I find it laughable since I've already pointed out that we do the same damn thing in America (car destruction and/or used parts), and that was far before we imported goods from China.

This must be so painful to watch if you are the owner of a bodyshop

I would guess it's closer to being a wet-dream for said bodyshop owner.

The second, although the average body shop would probably wouldn't want to repair a Maserati; as it would take a long time to get parts and the owner would be picky as all get-out with the final result (body shops use lots of used or non-OEM parts).

 

[RocZX]

 

[Dean]

That's the cost of the car over there, most likely.

It is. At first, I read it as that was the cost of the repair . - I still find him crazy, though.

 

[eran0004]

You're misunderstanding the impact of social media in relation to a luxury automobile; most people who buy/maintain a vehicle of that caliber don't care what a bunch of plebs think.

And as a pleb myself, neither do I. Make a real statement, not some empty basket of comments with one-sided information that two kids in afterschool detention hall could concoct.

Obviously he does care, otherwise he wouldn't have tried to get as much attention as he possibly could. If the goal was to destroy the car, he could have just taken it to the scrapyard.

Truth is: Wasting expensive stuff upsets people. You can pretend like you don't care, but there are plenty enough who does for his message to get through.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

I kind of wonder if he's getting any money out of this little show he put on.

 

[Pupik]

Truth is: Wasting expensive stuff upsets people. You can pretend like you don't care, but there are plenty enough who does for his message to get through.

I'm not pretending, and his display does not bother me. I work in the dealership segment of the auto industry, so much of this is more about how he's been ripped off. It's rather pointless because making something even shoddier and more damaged is a temper tantrum thrown by a child. This might be more about how the auto repair industry in China needs a few standards. If he'd gone on a vandalism spree at the dealer, he'd be locked up in prison for a long time.

Still, what makes more of a statement? A public display which he can afford to do in front of the media, or a complaint on Facebook (amongst thousands of pointless others)? The first one...it's a tangible experience of sorts; but a complaint via the interwebs - oh look, we deal with them all the time on this site, and most of it gets as much attention from me as I miss a passing fart, because that's how much energy is put into them.

Most of the damned internet is about whining and complaining, bitching and moaning, and sadly, very little is actually put into how wonderful and interesting some things and experiences are. That's why so many complaints aren't worth squat to me. Few of them are valid, and many more are not worth my time and effort. Most of us aren't God's quality control manager and only have a part-time gig in Dali Lama's ever-loving faith in humanity department, at best.

I have nice things, some average goods, junk things, and some mementos...but they're just things. It's not worth judging people over; that crap was all dispensed with by the time grade school ended. I have kids, and they waste lots of things. That's something you have to get used to, or be okay with from the onset, as a parent. I can't preserve every darn item and moment within the universe I come in contact with.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

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That sums it up. Obviously Wang is rich enough so this will not even effect him financially. He will just go buy another car. Probably paid cash for the Maserati and will pay cash for the next car....another Maserati. So that means Maserati gained twice the profit from this guy. Seems like he would have smashed the dealership the was frustrated with instead of his own car. If you smash their building, they have to pay the deductible to have the insurance repair it. Or even better, drive your car into the building! That's much more fun to watch.

Its just like the idiots that go destroy new 360s or new PS3s at launch. Great job, the company already made money off of you and destroying their product only wastes your own money. Now someone will have to go buy another one.

Another example would be you go to the dentist or your wife and get bad dental work, do you knock all your teeth out to make a point to the dentist? Do you knock all of her teeth out? That's called job security. These people are idiots.

 

[KinLM]

No, it's obvious that only you think that way. Maybe you need help, since you've suggested it first. If you can't take the slightest of non-personal criticism on a message board, you need to find a different activity.

It's a car, just an inanimate object; thus, it's his inanimate object...If he wants to do something stupid to it, fine. I find it laughable since I've already pointed out that we do the same damn thing in America (car destruction and/or used parts), and that was far before we imported goods from China.

The second, although the average body shop would probably wouldn't want to repair a Maserati; as it would take a long time to get parts and the owner would be picky as all get-out with the final result (body shops use lots of used or non-OEM parts).

You're not seeing my point either.

Destroying the car accomplishes almost nothing and is one of the least constructive and mature ways of getting his point across.

If he can afford that car and then smash it, he should be able to pay the bill for parts. See the point I'm trying to convey?

EDIT: I obviously am just failing to convey my point, as in your previous post here, you said exactly my point.

I was upset because I think it's common knowledge that it's his car and he can do what he wants with it. I was never denying that. My point is that it's immature of him to destroy a car like that, I can understand him being upset but what he did was childish.

The fact that I was told that it was his car and he can do what he wanted with it was so besides my point and so obvious that it came across as inferring me being incompetent. See my point?

Yes it's his car. I clearly know that it's his car. Whether it's his car or not, it has nothing to do with his actions being immature. There are better ways to handle his situation. My point was never that I thought he shouldn't be able to do what he did, it was that he was very childish and sick about it. He has every right to do what he did, but the following response suggesting he can do what he wants with it because it's his car was something I never denied and was totally besides my actual point.

I personally don't see my response back as being too harsh. Sprinkled with a bit of sarcasm but I wasn't too angry I don't think. I have no problems with anything on this message board and though you seem to disagree, I feel right at home on this site. Just misunderstood at times.

 

[Guardian]

Edit: Nevermind - I don't particularly care. Rant away.

 

[BKGlover]

So let me get this straight. Because he got bad service at a LOCAL dealership, he destroys the CAR, the he BOUGHT ANYWAY, to send a message to the AUTOMAKER Maserati. I apologise for the caps, but I actually cannot comprehend the reaches of this man's idiocy without them.

Also, the Sledgehammer heads look right at least, even if the handles are long sticks.

 

[Yauma9]

Even though I love Maseratis, especially the Quattroporte.. It would have been fun to get paid to destroy another person car.

 

[1241Penguin]

If he can afford that car and then smash it, he should be able to pay the bill for parts. See the point I'm trying to convey?

Is your point that he should ignore the bumped up price of that second-hand part simply because he can afford it? Because that's not really bringing the actual issue into light, it's more avoiding it.

 

[Grayfox]

I think facebook is blocked in china and they have there own version that is watched like a hawk.

I also could have seen him complaining directly to the Maserati head office in china or even Maserati themselves.

Lastly Chinese members know anything about consumer rights in china.

 

[WrxScooby]

Must have been fun though. I thought throwing a rock through a junk yard car window was exciting haha

 

[KinLM]

Is your point that he should ignore the bumped up price of that second-hand part simply because he can afford it? Because that's not really bringing the actual issue into light, it's more avoiding it.

No.

My point is that if he's doing well enough to afford that car then something like that, which in the longer scheme is quite pretty, shouldn't prompt the actions he took. Smashing Maserati's car isn't really doing anything to the actual source of the problem, the service and dealership.

Like I said many times and will say yet again, I can understand that he would be angry. But what he did was unnecessary and immature. There are better ways for a grown, wealthy man to deal with this.

 

[ICEYOU]

A Maserati-owner has taken a dramatic stand against bad customer service – smashing his $428,000 car with sledgehammers in front of a crowded auto show.

The Chinese man, known only by his last name of Wang, reportedly decided to stage the public protest after receiving bad service at local Maserati dealership, Furi Group, Car News China reports.

He hired three men to help him smash the car's windows and bonnet outside the Qingdao International Auto Show yesterday, where Furi Group was exhibiting.

Wang had reportedly taken the Maserati Quattroporte back to the Qingdao dealership for a repair after buying it in 2011.

But he soon realised a part in his car had been replaced with a second-hand part and became angry when he received a hefty bill for the work.

The man accused the dealership and an associated insurer of fraud and was engaged in a long-standing dispute with both companies leading up to the protest.

Prior to the event, Wang contacted local media and spread the word on Chinese social media website Weibo in the hopes of attracting large crowds.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2013/05/15/08/45/man-smashes-maserati-after-bad-service

Is there a video?

 

[Doog]

No.

My point is that if he's doing well enough to afford that car then something like that, which in the longer scheme is quite pretty, shouldn't prompt the actions he took. Smashing Maserati's car isn't really doing anything to the actual source of the problem, the service and dealership.

Like I said many times and will say yet again, I can understand that he would be angry. But what he did was unnecessary and immature. There are better ways for a grown, wealthy man to deal with this.

You're missing the point of why he did this. He was pissed that he got screwed over on the service, so to retaliate he made a massive spectacle of smashing the car to call attention to it. He wants to make people aware of it, and it works.

 

[KinLM]

You're missing the point of why he did this. He was pissed that he got screwed over on the service, so to retaliate he made a massive spectacle of smashing the car to call attention to it. He wants to make people aware of it, and it works.

No, I do get that.

What I'm saying is that destroying the car is attacking the wrong thing.

It's not Maserati the manufacturer's fault. They built and shipped the car with no problem.

It's the dealer's fault.

But destroying the CAR is destroying something that never was the problem in the first place.

The CAR was built by Maserati the manufacturer, which did nothing wrong.

What he NEEDED to do would be something that directly hurts the DEALER.

Destroying the car only makes Maserati the brand look bad, when it was more the dealer's fault than Maserati's on the whole.

 

[Chevrolet]

Wow, just wow.

 

[1241Penguin]

No, I do get that.

What I'm saying is that destroying the car is attacking the wrong thing.

So are you suggesting that he should have smashed the garage instead? Or maybe smashed up the second-hand part they put in?

 

[RDF97]

Why didn't they just fix the problem properly? This is a massive blow to Maserati's reputation.

 

[KinLM]

So are you suggesting that he should have smashed the garage instead? Or maybe smashed up the second-hand part they put in?

He shouldn't have smashed anything. He should've brought it up formally with the necessary people.

 

[analog]

Thankfully there are also other responses to bad customer service, there's that example of a disgruntled Ferrari owner who was scoffed by old Enzo himself and decided to take the matter into his own hands, what's his name? Ferruccio something...he used more than a hammer to prove a point.

 

[Katiegan]

The car even looks like it's in pain.

I really hate it when people do stuff like this. He should be forced to repair the damage to that car himself, with his own money.

 

[KinLM]

Thankfully there are also other responses to bad customer service, there's that example of a disgruntled Ferrari owner who was scoffed by old Enzo himself and decided to take the matter into his own hands, what's his name? Ferruccio something...he used more than a hammer to prove a point.

+1.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.