Thursday, February 23, 2006

I am awesome - I have proof


I am in the process of adding a soft top to my 'Sunday Jeep', a CJ8 Scrambler. Here it is, filled with von Stalkers. Back to the plot. For those that care, it's a 1982! Plot starts here. I bought the top for $200 on EBay and it's black and has windows and brackets and doors and handles and all that good stuff...anyway during this process I needed to ensure that I had all the brackets in the right place so I looked up the manufacturers website but inadvertently spelled the name incorrectly.

Now any good websurfer knows that this could be fatal, one slip and you're in popup overload (Dave??) but I was fortunate enough to land on the manufacturers website at a page that outlined that I had made a spelling mistake - I had spelled 'BESTOP' as 'BESTTOP'. It was quite amusing to see that there was a specific landing page for this type of error on the 'BESTOP' website...and this page was RIDDLED with issues; spelling, grammar, punctuation.. (the corrected page can still be found in this manner)

So I wrote to them, informing them of their many errors, here is my email:

Idea: This is perfect! I entered besttop in search engine and came straight to a site thanking me for finding you - it made particular mention of spelling:"Whether you spell Bestop: Best tops, or Besttop, it doesn't really matter. What matters most is that you found us. We don't mind the
misspelling-- besttop -- we're simply glad you found bestop.com." However I continued reading and found a few you should change for yourselves ....after all you wouldn't want to mock the general public now would you...

3rd paragraph: "If your looking for the best Jeep tops" ..... your should be you're

4th para: "it make no diffrence to us" - clearly it should! difference, difference, difference

5th para:"a complete line of soft top" should that be a plural top as in tops?

5th para: "For Jeep (CJ-5, CJ-7 and Wrangler vehicles" you started parentheses before the CJ5 and never ended them...

5th para: "fully illustrated installation instructions sheets," should be instructions or instruction sheets but not both plural. In fact that whole sentence is too long and confusing..here's my suggestion to change "Each of our products comes with fully illustrated installation instructions sheets, an in-product catalog, and an installation video in some Jeep top kit applications, and all products are covered by an industry best rated warranty: a full one-year factory warranty." to "Each of our products comes with fully illustrated installation instructions, an in-product catalog, and each product is covered by an industry best-rated warranty: a full one-year factory warranty. In some of our Jeep packages, we even include a helpful, step by step installation video."

Para5: "If your looking for " If YOU'RE

Why did I write all this? I own a CJ8, use and love your top! Just wanted to see if all my hard work proofiing you mmissppelledd page would earn me a snap repair kit ;) Happy days! Feel free to write back and say 'don't be ridiculous or thankyou', whichever!

And their reply:

Thank you for contacting Bestop, Inc. You're awesome! We had such a good laugh here at Bestop because my Boss wrote that web page. He claims he was being "tongue & cheek" with the misspellings and grammar, but we know the truth. :^)

We are very glad you found us and you'll probably always remember from this point forward that Bestop is spelled with only one "T". Meanwhile, I learned that I need to follow up and check on grammar, spelling and punctuation.

Believe me, we put a lot more effort into the manufacturing and quality of our products than our spelling indicates, but I'll work on getting the spelling up to par.

As a thank you, I would like to send you out something for your efforts in getting us on the right grammatical track. If you could forward me a shipping address, that would be great.

Thank you!
Digital Marketing Coordinator
Bestop, Inc.


So, it seems I am awesome, but then you already knew that didn't ya!

6 Comments:

Blogger Kristin said...

Dude, John, um... is this why you didn't come up to the mountains? Grammar fun?

2/23/2006 04:44:00 PM  
Blogger Kristin said...

But, you know, you are TOTALLY AWESOME!

2/23/2006 04:45:00 PM  
Blogger LR said...

Dya think they meant to write 'annoying' rather than 'awesome'?? Just a thought....

Yours truly

Yumanoids

2/23/2006 07:39:00 PM  
Blogger Tori said...

What a sad bastard you are!
But irregardless of that, your top of the class in spellin and gramma and trully my freind, thats' something to be verry proud off...

2/24/2006 07:31:00 AM  
Blogger Tori said...

Are you going to post on my kinky blog now?
It's only fair...
Perhaps your bestop will be your fettish...
(or does it only have one 't')

2/24/2006 07:33:00 AM  
Blogger Fazzy said...

yes,ur awesome

3/09/2006 05:38:00 PM  

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