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The rant thread...

Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by buckeye, Feb 3, 2013.

  1. wl704

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    After 8 different people and over an hour and half on the phone, I pretty much resigned to ‘we’ll have somebody call you back’.

    No calls back though, so we start again tomorrow.

    The problem is easy to conceive, if you’re a nerd…it’s just finding the right person that can fix the issue (my credentials in 2 AD instances out of sync)…
     
  2. picman

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    On line retailers.

    I've been looking for primers for reloading my hand gun. Finally found some last week as well as a powder I wanted to try. YAY!

    Notified the same day that my order shipped. YAY!!

    Not so fast!!! Since then (5/25), tracking shows that the label was created. Yes, some companies say product has shipped once they create the label.

    No other information has posted regarding my order. Did an on line chat with the retailer yesterday. They claim the carrier has picked up the order but has a lack of hazmat drivers. Nothing they can do until 2 weeks past the anticipated delivery date.

    Called the carrier to question the tracking system. They claim that they would have scanned it into their hub which would have created the next way point "on the way". Had there been an issue after that, I would have received a "deviation" notice. I have not.

    Someone is bullshitting me. I tend to believe the carrier because what they describe has in fact happened on another shipment.

    In the meantime, the retailer wants me to rate my experience. This is going to be FUN...after we resolve this issue.
     
  3. wl704

    wl704 Legendary Woodsman

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    In total 2.5 hrs on the phone with the help desk to resolve the problem…just stupid.
     
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    wl704 Legendary Woodsman

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    I had a similar issue with an online purchase. Received a shipped email, but I doubt it was even pulled from the retailers inventory…

    About a week later it started moving, at least according to the tracking info… Ended up taking 2 weeks for my product to arrive…
     
  5. oldnotdead

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    Had to go to store and get gas today.
    I'm not going to rant on what I had to spend, your all in the same leaking boat. I'm going to rant on what I saw.
    Before that let me say F__k Joe Biden and All the Democratic congress,save Mansion.
    I saw every single person with the most depressed and defeated facial expressions I have ever seen. I saw some older people with tears in their eyes and some leaving the store mumbling to themselves.
    Want to know how bad it is? Well look into the eyes of normal Americans. Look into the shelves of grocery stores...because when you see the biggest and the cheapest PB gone and the cheapest white bread missing you know what's happening. When you see the scanning of eyes then hear a person say I just pray to see a reduced price sticker on any meat. Well it makes me wish for very ,very nasty things to happen to some people. Thank God we hunt. I just finished an end wall on the green house. Told son to keep an eye out for used tiny wood stove. Finished enclosing the back wall as well. Black plastic on inside under the rehab redwood planks that will get covered in a moisture barrier and there will be a 16x3x4 ft sectioned composting system. Which will also help in the green house warming. I need a very extended growing season now.
     
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    I filled my truck after work. $4.69... let's just say I was a tad pissed at this fabulous economy Biden is bragging on. I am not sure what economy he is looking at but the one I am looking at... sucks. What a joke !!!!!!!!
     
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    He had another cabinet member,not sure who they are all the same to me, say that he's been talking to people around the country. People are saying they are in good financial shape and not worried! He must be doing a lot of golfing on our dime, if you know what I mean....
    We had to replace the shed roof.....1 sheet of not even really good roofing tin....$62.00
     
  8. Mod-it

    Mod-it Die Hard Bowhunter

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    Ordered a stabilizer from Amazon on May 9th (can't find one locally). It is a B stinger counter slide, and I wanted the dovetail mount version. I was very careful about reading the item description, Customer Questions, and reviews to ensure it came with the dovetail mount (noticed there are listings that picture the dovetail mount on the stabilizer, but then description doesn't include it and reviews were full of disappointed people that didn't get dovetail version). Listing I found was for sure a dovetail, so I ordered it. Seller created a shipping order right away. Item arrives 4 days late...and it is the standard mount with no dovetail. SOB! I do not open package and initiate a return through Amazon. Return process offered either a refund or exchange, so I choose exchange.
    Seller cancels the "order" for the exchange two days later. So now I'm waiting for a refund and have to start all over on getting the stabilizer. I shipped the one I got back, Seller got it last Tuesday. Here it is June 6th, I still do not have the refund back yet. Seller claims they process claims in 2-4 days. If I haven't gotten my money back by tomorrow, I'm going to have to initiate a complaint through Amazon.

    The seller is ecop! and I believe they are running a scam on many of their orders. They buy a few products and ship the correct "upgrade" item so reviews are positive. Then they start sending cheaper versions. They create a shipping order right away, but wait to actually give the product to the Shipper. Product arrives late, this makes the customer want it even more. Customer than faces the reality of waiting for the whole return shipping and refund process, and then waiting again to actually get another shipped to them. I'm sure many customers just say screw it and accept the lesser item. Seller makes extra profit because they sent a cheaper version of the product that they sold for the higher price of the upgraded item.
    I did a search on them and found multiple similar complaints, many through the BBB.

    A while ago I ordered some Q2i Fusion 2.1" x-ll vanes from ebay, seller offered a mix and match listing, so instead of buying two 36 packs of two different colors I ordered one 36 pack and got to choose the colors. They arrived and I stripped my 3d arrows and fletched them with the new vanes. I noticed that they seemed to be just as tall as the Rapt-x vanes I took off, so checked them a bit closer. Measured height and weighed them, then went to Q2i site to compare. I discovered that the Seller had sent me the original 2.1" Fusion vanes, not the newer x-ll's. I just messaged the Seller to let them know they'd sent the wrong product, but told them I'd already used several of them so I'd just accept them.

    Surprise, suprise, guess who I'd ordered these vanes from? Yep, ecop!. They are 2 for 2 in sending me a cheaper product than what I ordered.
    Do not buy any item that lists the seller as ecop!.
     
  9. cls74

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    Nasty skank of a meth/heroine addict mowing her yard for the second time this year. See you in tee will leave all those clippings on my drive, all she had to do was mow east to west rather than north to south.

    Her boyfriend/fiance left her, I can only hope she OD's being left unsupervised. Sounds callous, but I have little to no sympathy for junkies. Sue me


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    Feel a bit bad now, her mom came over and cleaned the grass up. Addict daughter nowhere to be seen. Probably has that rubber tube cinched up tight......

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    Work training in the new software that could have been a 15 minute youtube video instead of a 2 1/2 hour in person meeting. :rant:
     
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    OMG, Whats going on with her face!?
     
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    Meth mouth.
     
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    Laying on your back under a boat side council trying to wire up gauges.
     
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    I'm so glad I don't see stuff like that to be able to recognize it.....condolences to all that do.....geeezz.......
     
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    That is her tongue pushing her bottom lip out :lol:
     
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    The parts you drop falling on your face...Pretty much the opposite of working on a car engine that you drop parts through the engine bay....
     
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    The old socket you hear clink downward but then never reaches the floor......
     
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    Do not reach up to locate the soldering iron by feel.
     
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    Mother Effing Eff Eff Eff!!!!

    Do a small load of laundry and put it in the dryer. Dryer buzzes and won't start. Become a contortionist and open door, press switch, turn start button and use foot to turn the drum to get it started.


    BZZZZZZZ

    Beat the hell out of the dryer to make sure there is no fixing it.


    Tension released...

    Open freezer and grab tomorrows lunch. Shut freezer door and a fan starts whining.....


    Pour another drink, and make a post here.

    FML!!!

    Have a dog entering his final days and now this chit compounding the situation.

    Takes me back to Silent Bob and Jay.....

     
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