So far, owner Anthony Watts isn't talking.
I have questions about Watts's electric car business ZEV2Go; but in the last three working days, two phone messages to his business - including one in which I requested that he tell me so, if he doesn't want to answer questions about this business - have not been returned.
Aug. 6 Update:
10 days ago Mr. Watts sent me an email informing me that he didn't intend to answer my questions via email or by phone & that he was sending me a "letter" in which he would address the questions I posed on my blog. [Confidential to Anthony: we're not in the 1900s anymore...]
As of yesterday morning, at least, the letter had still not arrived.
I asked further questions via email; to my knowledge, they haven't been answered either.
These fellows do show an odd aversion to using email.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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Why does Anthony have to answer your question? What authority do you have to force him to answer? The last time I checked this was still America and we are a free people.
ReplyDelete> "What authority do you have to force him to answer? "
ReplyDeleteRuss, I agree completely - if Anthony Watts wants to resort to "the check is in the mail"-style evasion, he has every right to do so. As do the rest of us - we *all* have every right to present ourselves as evasive and timid, as folks who jump up on a chair & whose voices go up several octaves when a mouse comes near.
Maybe I'm missing something, but that's what it looks like to me.
(FYI, yesterday afternoon I sent an email to Anthony Watts alerting him to this update - so he'd know to respond, if I did misinterpret - but haven't gotten any response from him, just this blog comment from Russ.)