Really? Where’s the love?

So, I just logged on to check if any new comments had been posted, and to my surprise, this was waiting on me…

1. Frank ******* | *******@yahoo.com | IP: **.**.**.***

   This page is absolutely ***. What are you, a screen writer? Your writing blows *** chunks.BTW… I read your VW experience at David Maus VW. Synthetic is more expensive, but the VWs are software based and the patches have to be downloaded to keep your car up to date and functioning, much like your computer at home. Midas or Mobil doesn’t have access to these updates, which by the way are not free and VW does not have to give them to you. They are provided as part of the $118 dollar service. Hey, if you can’t afford to service the car, maybe ou shouldn’t live out of your means and buy it. Here’s a tip…when buying or leasing your next car, when you leave the sales department, go to the service department and ask about the prices for the services. Then you can figure your total cost of ownership of that car, young Josh.

   Rant and rave all you want, but you come across as a jack***.

   Frank
   (Don’t worry about replying as the names have been changed to protect the innocent, but you do know me…very well.)

   Feb 25, 3:13 PM

(JUST A NOTE, I PUT *’s WHERE THERE WAS INAPPROPRIATE MATERIAL)

Now, you see, in January, I wrote a post that I titled “The Most Expensive Oil Change Ever” after an encounter with a $118 oil change at the new David Maus Volkswagen in Orlando. Until January, it had been Classic Volkswagen, and our oil changes had been about $70, but I won’t go into that here. If you truly want to know more about the story, just click on the link above.

Anyways, so since then, I have gotten TONS of spam comments from people at other VW dealerships telling me that their oil changes were cheaper, that David Maus doesn’t price fairly, etc… For most of them, I just let my SPAM filter do it’s job (which it does very nicely); however, this one really caught my eye.

I guess that the funny thing that people don’t realize is that when you post a comment on someone’s blog, it records your IP address. Now, if you have DSL or cable, this usually isn’t a problem, because with dynamic IP addresses, you pretty much get a new IP address everytime you turn your modem off and on. However, for big businesses, there are often static IP addresses, which don’t change. This is the case with this post. Wouldn’t you know that the IP address that was logged belongs to another semi-local Volkswagen dealership here in Florida? Funny thing is, I really know right about 3 people that live in the same city as the VW dealer, and one of those people is only 3 years old. The other two are the nicest people I’ve ever met in my life, so I hardly think it was anyone I know.

Another funny thing is that the search term used to find my site by this individual was “****** Volkswagen Sucks,” (I have chosen to omit the name to be nice) which is funny because for some reason, my site is the first site returned for that search. But this only means that someone working at the VW dealer was searching for the phrase “****** Volkswagen Sucks” on their work computer on company time. I don’t know about you, but if I owned or managed my own business, I wouldn’t necessarily like my employees using company resources to search for stuff like that.

So what did I do? I forwarded the comment right back to the Volkswagen dealer’s Customer Service Manager. Hopefully I’ll be hearing a reply soon. I guess that’s what happens when not very smart people make very rude comments on business computers during business hours. Oh well.

By the way, I’m also still the top search result for “david maus volkswagen,” which I think is pretty interesting; however, my site has also been found using the following searches:

• person chicken scratching -handwriting
• someone getting arrested
• what is eyebrow planting
• belly eat much
• funniest sights in the world
• i’ve never heard a man speak like this before
• indiana jones walmart
• bird poop on the head wee mee
• indoor rock climbing wall in jerusalem
• essay about mohawk haircut
• talk like i’ve never heard
• history consolidation airbrush electronic blackbombs
• i am josh boldman
• with corner of my eye
• doctor transformers
• Hope of the World
• mullet kid
• fighting 5 year olds

Though it’s a very impressive list, I’m not sure what most of these search terms have to do with my site, but I sure am glad that people are finding it. Anyway, just thought I’d share this with you all. Hopefully you’re having a good day.