Friday, April 19, 2013

Trunk Monkey letter

Written for my technical writing class -




Capitalistic Crap Products
320 Cirrus Blvd.
Cloud City, IA 52240


April 8, 2013

Frederick Engles
Customer Service Manager
Trunk Monkey Enterprises
1414 NE Marx Dr.
Moscow, ID 83844

Dear Mr. Engles:

The Trunk Monkey Deluxe you recently sold us had a defective aggression dampener that had to be replaced while driving to Atlantic City, NJ. Consequently, we are requesting reimbursement of the expenses to our company to replace the dampener.

We purchased the Trunk Monkey Deluxe from your Iowa City store on January 4, 2013. (See attached sales invoice No. 63229.)

The Trunk Monkey worked extremely well for the first several months, but during that time we had no reason to activate the aggression dampener.

On March 30 one of our sales employees, George Modoc, activated the Trunk Monkey after following the pre-activation procedures specified in the owners manual. After driving down the interstate for only 9 hours, the Trunk Monkey became violent and tried to escape from the trunk of the car. Mr. Modoc attempted to activate the aggression dampener, but it did not respond. He then turned the Trunk Monkey off and restarted it after consulting the emergency procedures manual that was provided by your company. Less than 30 minutes later, the Trunk Monkey became even more violent. The aggression dampener once again did not respond, forcing Mr. Modoc to do a “hard deactivation” on the Trunk Monkey.

Because the Trunk Monkey Deluxe is neither sold nor serviced anywhere east of the Mississippi River, Mr. Modoc was forced to buy a replacement aggression dampener (a Vicks Model 44D), which has since worked fine. I have enclosed the defective dampener, plus a copy of the sales receipt for the replacement dampener that Mr. Modoc purchased from Knock-Off Monkey Products in Youngstown, OH.

Please send our company a check for $2,987.63 to cover our costs for replacement of the defective dampener.

Sincerely,



Alan Keynes
Vice President

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