Twitter Sold Me A Car
I have always been a fan of Twitter, but I would never have imagines I would have bought a car using Twitter. Yes, three years after joining Twitter it led to me buying a car, well - leasing a new car. How can I lease a car via Twitter?
This morning, the Lexus dealership I ordered my two previous cars with tweeted a deal that caught my eye:
Payment Waiver Sales Event! LFS customers, waive up to six of your lease payments. http://tinyurl.com/ybxzz2n
Prestige Lexus
PrestigeLexus
My current lease technically has 6 payments left, so I went over to their web site and clicked on the Live Chat button to make sure this was the real deal. I ended up talking with a guy name Steve who leased me my new car within 3 hours from the time I clicked on the URL in the tweet.
Technically, I was told I was their first sale via Twitter. What did that get me? Probably nothing - but at least I can go on record as saying I bought my car via Twitter.
The car should be here Monday and maybe I'll write about the car itself on my personal blog.
Update: On Thursday, May 13th, about two days since I picked up my new car, the dealership tweeted a thank you:
@rustybrick Mr. Schwartz, thanks for being our 1st Twitter sale! We appreciate your business & hope you enjoy your Lexus.Prestige Lexus
PrestigeLexus
Published May 7, 2010 by:
Barry
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry is also the founder of the Search Engine Roundtable and the News Editor of Search Engine Land. He is well known & respected for his expertise in the search marketing industry. Barry graduated from the City University of New York and lives with his family in the NYC region.
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posted by Stelle Courney on: Oct 28, 2011 06:40pm
So you're their first Twitter customer! That's so cool! Heeh, that's the additional benefit of using Twitter! And it's good that they tweeted a message back to you. That probably made you use twitter non-stop. LOL!
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posted by Penny Geist on: May 31, 2011 06:18pm
Wow, well, that's a pretty cool way of using twitter. You also got to be the first buyer there as well, so that's kinda like a nice bonus to things, in a way. Going online to find yourself a car seems like a nice idea, since you get an easier access to info nowadays.
posted by Brian Mark on: May 7, 2010 08:22pm
Very cool. Hopefully you got the upgraded sound system with some good tweeters. (Sorry... couldn't resist.)
posted by Jeff Hood on: May 7, 2010 08:41pm
Touché , Brian :)
posted by Doug Belleville on: May 7, 2010 09:56pm
Way to go. Can't wait to see pictures. Just curious, had you test drove one of these before buying?
posted by Barry Schwartz on: May 7, 2010 10:09pm
I went down there after speaking to them on live chat. So yea, I test drove.
posted by on: May 10, 2010 02:37pm
Rusty, Last March I was the first one to buy a car through CarMax. Tweeted I was going to out to look at a car and CarMax Chris pointed out one that was cheaper, less miles, and in much better shape. A win win.
posted by Car Games on: Jul 2, 2010 03:50am
I never thought it can be possible...
posted by http://www.leasecar.co.uk on: Nov 5, 2010 11:26am
that's so cool!
posted by VanManStan on: Oct 21, 2010 09:27am
Wow, that is really good. Twitter is becoming quite revolutionary. Good deal too.
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