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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:36 pm Subject: Just had to gripe!

I know this is for debt problems and solutions but I have to gripe to someone. My son who is on disability,rented 2 movies from Blockbuster for me and his grandmother,we watched them and returned them on the same night,like we always do. Well,these jerkoffs,sorry, are saying we have 4 more days to return them then they will debit my account for the price of them. Tried to call and say we returned these,blah,blah, and she said ,well we don't have them. This will certainly overdraw me,as this is before payday. And anyway we returned their damn movies,how can they get you over a barrell like that? I told her to check for the next day,to see if those particular movies were rented,but she kept insisting it was MY fault. Sorry about this but I am sooo frustrated and do not want to pay for 2 movies I don't have! Thanks for letting me vent Evil or Very Mad

Karen

Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:52 pm Subject:

What a bunch of shit! I hate it when these retail weeners get all self-righteous. I thought the customer was always right! Want to hear an angry story of my first and last shopping trip at Sam's Club? Here goes...I had gotten my membership and was shopping with my husband, and noticed that the pomegranates looked especially good! I also took note of a sign stating the lot price, and just below it, the INDIVIDUAL price, so I took it at face value and put two instead of the full lot of four into my basket. Later on, went to pay. Don't you know that the cashier sarted arguing with me! She even rallied a couple more cashiers to her side and even called over a front end manager. I was simply saying that I knew what I saw and what ever happened to the customer is always right? Well, the front end manager was just gracious enough to roll her eyes at me and call yet another manager over to argue with me! I gave up and decided not to buy the friggin pomegranates, I was so embarassed I just wanted to leave! It was like, I just want two pomegranates! Not an onslaught of old biddies and a debate! What the f!

A couple weeks later when I finally had the time, I went back to get a refund on my membership, only to have this short little clown acting as a bouncer saying I couldn't get in until 10 without a business card! I was so fed up I just blew up at the little fart and yelled "You people just love to waste my time! Customer is always wrong!" and I stormed off to my car and went to work. Got my refund later on, but didn't report anybody for poor service. I'm not vindictive and I already know that retail jobs suck.

Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:41 pm Subject:

Oh Ari,that is too funny Laughing

I can see you with those,and a whole gaggle of store people arguing over how wrong YOU are!!! There is no such thing as the customer is right anymore. The old hag from Blockbuster called back,they found one of the movies,surprise suprise,but haven't found the other one,told her she better look a little harder. She was so adamant that none were turned in,and I had 2 days before they charged me for the retail price of the movie Twisted Evil

grrr makes me want to go up there and look for myself at the records.Maybe I ought to tell them that,might make them look harder Laughing

Thanks for your story-made me laugh! Karen

Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 5:22 am Subject:

Anytime! If they keep this crap up, just can your membership and they can lose you as a customer if they're so insistent on being right about everything. Especially since finding one of the proves you were being truthful. My husband and I have Netflix dvd service. It's absolutely wonderful and doesn't have any of these fees and farces.

Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 4:33 pm Subject:

Thanks Ari,Yeah,my son on disability has something like netflicks,or maybe that too. I told him if he ever rents movies there again when he returns them,stand there until they make sure he has turned them in. Guess they will debit my account tomorrow,stupid dip ***** Rolling Eyes

Thanks for the support Wink

Karen

Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 4:59 pm Subject:

Anytime! We all get the sh!t end of the stick sometimes in life.

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:11 pm Subject:

Oh,Ari,this is too good!! I am soooo embarassed

U know I told you Blockbuster found that one tape,and I raised hell for them to find the other one? Welll--Found out last night my 25 year old rented it and supposedly has it-boy,did I feel like a TOTAL IDIOT Rolling Eyes

Now,that little idiot of a son of mine better get it bask to them or they will debit me tomorrow. Just had to share that,although it was totally embarassing to me Laughing

Karen

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:31 pm Subject:

Happens to the best of us hon! I once pulled a similar stunt on my husband. I returned "Troy" one day late, then we went back later for "Kill Bill 2" and that's when he got ding'd for $2. He proclaimed innocence, and I did as well (with fingers crossed behind my back) and the cashier let it slide. Later on I went back by myself to get "Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith" and got a little reminder of the $2, which I paid up and asked the cashier (same person as last time) not to tell my husband that I was the goof!

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:12 pm Subject:

Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:06 am Subject:

Blockbuster is a major pain in the rear! A few years ago, when my husband and I were still dating, he rented a movie from them and brought it to my apartment. For some reason he forgot it, and called me the next day to ask me to return it. I took it to Blockbuster and dropped it in the box. A week later he gets a notice in the mail..and a phone call. I told him I dropped it off, so he just forgot about it. Meanwhile, we started renting from a different place that was cheaper, so we didn't have the in store reminders. Well, a few months go by, and he gets a letter saying the movie was never returned and it would cost $99 to replace it. Wow, that's an expensive movie. To make a long story short, it turns out that I took the movie to the wrong blockbuster.. We had 2 in town then. Why they couldn't work that out, I don't know. So we didn't have to pay. But then..A few years later, my husband goes to buy a new car. He has decent credit. The dealership told him that the bank said if he pays his Blockbuster fee he'll get a better interest rate. Isn't that nice? We thought we had it all straightened out, then the jerks stick it on his credit report. he got it removed, and we don't go to Blockbuster at all!

Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:16 am Subject:

I hear ya Fins! Hopefully my son really does have the movie and didn't sell it or I'll have to kill him Laughing

I've got another good one-one day I got my Pikepass bill and called to complain about a charge for the turnpike. I just had a fit with this woman,telling her I was home and in bed,not taking the turnpike that time of night. We both argued,but she finally took it off my bill. Well I was telling hubby about it and he said,oh I forgot to tell you I got it out of your car when I had to go out of town to work. Embarassed

Talk about feelin stupid Laughing

Karen

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:49 am Subject:

Yep Bossy, you can always count on husbands to pull a dumb stunt.

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:55 pm Subject:

OOOOH! Want to hear about a dumb husband stunt that will knock your socks off? Here goes...We were just a few hours away from our Christmas trip to Denmark, i had just gotten home from my job at Home Depot and was still in my lumber-cutting clothes, and my husband asked me to change into something nice for the trip, so I complied. I had stripped down to my bra and undies when there was a knock on the door, we had a one room apartment then and everything could be seen from the front door. Anyhoo, he goes and opens the door anyway! I skittered across the room to the nearest dark corner saying "honey! I'm in my underpants!" Don't you know that he told our landlord, who was the visitor "My wife is****! Come on in!"

****Adult term removed - Jason

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:42 pm Subject:

Nice one, Ari. one time I went back to Miami for my ten year class reunion. I came home and the kitchen was spoless! Next day, when I went to cook dinner, I pre-heated the oven and this awful smell came out..My husband put all the dirty dishes in the oven to look like he cleaned the kitchen.

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:51 pm Subject:

Such a goofy guy thing to do! I buy my husband cantaloupes and musk melons because he likes them so much, he'll take it out of the fridge, cut out a slice, and just leave the melon there! I would walk in to the kitchen and see it, and I'd ask him to come and put the melon away. he'd say in a child's voice "Nooooo! I don't want to put the melon away!" Or how about the time he took his breakfast into the bedroom so he could eat at the computer, I noticed bits of scrambled eggs on the floor and I chastised him for getting egg on the floor, he says "It's for you! I put some little pieces of egg on the floor like this.." then he makes a pincer with his hand and a plink plink noise as he demonstrates how he egged the floor. And what about the time he came out of the bathroom after a shower and tossed his clothes from yesterday in the general direction of the laundry basket, and only his boxers didn't make it into the basket. I asked him to fix it, and he says "Noooo! You like to pick up my underwear!" Such a big chiild, he can be sometimes. I love it though. Wouldn't change my Bamm-bamm for anything.