The email to end all emails?

Here's what I wrote to Melissa, my JET predecessor, this morning about her car:
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>Melissa,
>
>How many months worth of shakken is left? I just
>figured out that the numbers on yahoo classified's
>shakken column indicate the remaining shakken in
>months.
>
>Just as you are unwilling to play salesman, I too feel
>awkward having to haggle. But I have done some asking
>around, and some have told me that old yellowplates
>are generally not worth more than the balance of the
>remaining shakken.
>
>This is despite the fact that I found your price
>reasonable compared to yahoo auto listings. I'm
>really torn right now. If what I've been told is
>right, and that the Alto comes with a premium at $1500
>(which seems to be what you've originally paid for the
>car minus a year of shakken at 7 man), I must figure
>out if the premium is worth it. Even after weighing
>the negatives--the car's resale value, other car
>expenses (auto tax, additional shakken, transfer of
>ownership, etc), less expensive options--against the
>positives--the peace-of-mind factor, the additional
>household stuff, the snow tires--I still don't know.
>
>Sorry for the rambling. I am writing mostly for the
>purpose of straightening out my own thoughts.
>
>I think it'll be better for me to wait it out, at
>least until I get some more info at the pre-deaprture
>orientation in LA tomorrow or at the Tokyo orientation
>in a month. So for now I don't think you should be
>expecting a check in the mail anytime soon, as I don't
>want to make a promise that either one of us might
>regret later. But I will get a chance to meet you
>after I arrive right? Perhaps we can talk about it
>more then.
>
>cho
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and here's her uncharacteristically quick (within 3 hours) reply:

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Hey Jeff,

Honestly...clearly it seems you are not comfortable with buying my car.
Let's just let it go - I'll sell it to some one around here. I don't
know the history of cars around here, the re-sale value ect. I'm not
that concerned with it - I just know that I bought the car for over 2
grand and I'm selling it for 1500 - I'm really sorry if this doesn't
suit you. I was totally willing to take it in payments ect., feel like
I've been pretty cool about it.

But, it would probably be best for you to just get here, look around
and buy that rice rocket that you have always dreamed of - I think it
would make you happier in the end. Just ask Nishiyama-sensei for help,
he'll be great at getting things set up for you.

I won't be here when you arrive, we all have to be out of the
apartments before you get here. But when your year is over, and if you
find yourself back in CA, I would love to meet up.

-Melissa
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Think she's being a bit blunt, and maybe a bit put off. Although I could've used more tact, I don't think I'm being unfair by calling her car overpriced. So she paid 23 man for the car with 2 years of shakken. A year passed and few more kilometers later, she's selling me the car for 16 man, minus precisely 7 man for a year worth of shakken that she used up. Does she seriously think that she's doing me a favor by passing the car onto me for 16, costing her nothing more than 7 man for a year's use of the car, and expect me to probably lose more than 10 man when I leave Japan and probably having to junk the car?

In the words of the immortal Rory Breaker: "Just remember: if the milk turns out to be sour, I ain't the kind of pussy to drink it."