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Interesting to me that they were able to get that domain name, being such a small outfit. Particularly, I would have thought there'd be porn or some other domain-specific thing that would have grabbed that up and held it.
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Not as funny as you might think -- if you own a car in India, you're probably upper class. In India, lots of paid inane chores are common, like carrying one's luggage from the taxi to the airport, even if it's a small backpack.
if you own a car in India, you're probably upper class source?
- Total $4.469 trillion[5] (3rd)
- Per capita $3,703[5] (129th)
GDP (nominal) 2011 estimate
- Total $1.843 trillion[5] (10th)
- Per capita $1,527[5] (133rd)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India
This also holds true across other Asian countries - car ownership is common only in upper-middle class and really rich families; and for very rich Chinese families the really expensive part is the license plate and not the car... no 4s and the more 8s and 9s, the more expensive the plate.
It appears to be (quite literally) impossible to determine which areas they cover without signing up for an account.
It's also impossible to determine which areas they cover after signing up for an account. I've gone through the process right up to the credit card form and there's no indication that any less than the entire US is covered. There's no information about coverage on their Zendesk either. A November article about the startup's launch mentions 20 washers hired in San Francisco. The fact that the website lets me order (an…
"We're Closed We’re currently closed for business. Our normal hours of operation are from 9:00am to 5:00pm, 7 days a week. See our how it works section to learn more about Cherry."
Presumably, this is because they're not in my time zone, but it's within operating hours here. I hope these guys are successful and wind up with a nationwide business someday, but if you run a local service and don't disclose that before taking on reams of personal data (including payment info), that's not "customer validation", it's a breach of trust.
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I would be REALLY pissed if someone washed by car without my permission. I'm surprised it had a positive effect on you. I might still try the service - I currently pay ~$30 with tip at the local car wash place where they wash your car by hand.
If you pick a car that is dusty / muddy, you can be pretty sure that the owner is not overly fussy about their car, and hence quite likely to have a positive reaction to a free wash. The probability that someone with an obviously dirty car getting actively upset about an unsolicited wash would seem to be sufficiently low to justify the risk, I would have thought.
I would definitely be very happy if I walked outside and found that my van was cleaned up, even without my knowledge.
The whole "leave your car unlocked so we can clean the interior" thing scares me a bit, though. The audio system in my van is worth $1k+ and it could be easily removed in the time it takes to do a car wash. :I
The homepage says:
We believe our customers should use Cherry 100%
worry-free. So, we’re introducing the Cherry Guarantee:
Accidents happen. But when you use Cherry, we’re
accountable for those accidents, not you. We cover
any scratch or ding and replace anything broken in
or stolen from your car.
THE COMPANY OFFERS INFORMATION AND A METHOD TO OBTAIN
SUCH THIRD PARTY CARWASH SERVICES, BUT DOES NOT AND
DOES NOT INTEND TO PROVIDE CARWASH SERVICES OR ACT
IN ANY WAY AS A CARWASH PROVIDER, AND HAS NO
RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY CARWASH
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I would be REALLY pissed if someone washed by car without my permission. I'm surprised it had a positive effect on you. I might still try the service - I currently pay ~$30 with tip at the local car wash place where they wash your car by hand.
If you pick a car that is dusty / muddy, you can be pretty sure that the owner is not overly fussy about their car, and hence quite likely to have a positive reaction to a free wash. The probability that someone with an obviously dirty car getting actively upset about an unsolicited wash would seem to be sufficiently low to justify the risk, I would have thought.
I keep my TT looking clean because I care a lot about the car and so have it washed every week. I'm probably the target customer for a service like this. I'd also be pissed, as I said above, if someone unsolicited washed my car.
Interesting to me that they were able to get that domain name, being such a small outfit. Particularly, I would have thought there'd be porn or some other domain-specific thing that would have grabbed that up and held it.
You and me both, as my surname is Cherry and was supposed to be notified if it ever became available on the market!
I think you may be referring to some automated agent that would tell you if it became available through standard channels (Sedo, etc).
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Not as funny as you might think -- if you own a car in India, you're probably upper class. In India, lots of paid inane chores are common, like carrying one's luggage from the taxi to the airport, even if it's a small backpack.
if you own a car in India, you're probably upper class source?
I know at least two "startups" doing this per city, in Brazil. Except you don't need a smartphone to call them... :-) It's amazing how the obvious in some countries is, sometimes, a novelty in others. Another example: I found out a couple of months ago that, in Chile, there's simply NO ONE offering lockers on beaches. Meaning you have to drive to the place and leave your stuff in the car, or simply not take a wallet/…
I've never seen lockers on beaches in the US, Australia, Canada or Mexico, either.