On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Steve Wilson wrote:
> The surrogate buyer network is described thus: it is someone in the area
> where you are not, who will go take a look at the car in question for
> buying; the surrogate buyer acts as your ears and eyes and will
> hopefully provide an honest and straight-forward answer to your questions
> on value for the money, shape of the car, rust, electrical and mechanical
> soundness, etc.
> It's strictly volunteer and reimbursement for gas, time etc is between
> the surrogate buyer and the prospective buyer.
> This network prevents you from flying/driving to see a car not even
> remotely similar to the description in the paper or magazine etc. I'm a
> member of the 6-PACK (TR6-TR250) Club surrogate buyer network;
> and I know that VTR has a similar system established.
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Hi, everyone. Sorry to take so long to respond to this. I'd just like
everyone to know that, at the present time, VTR does NOT have any sort of
surrogate buyer network in place. We do have a "Member Travel Assistance
Program" consisting of a directory of VTR members willing to lend some
form of assistance to fellow VTR members in need of help with their cars
while traveling about the States.
A surrogate buyer network is something that we will consider in the very
near future for VTR, but it's not there yet.
--Andy
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